SPLT 050 A-Z - (LT) Contemporary Debates in the Spanish-Speaking WorldSemester Hours: 3
Periodically
These courses deal with specific issues, themes, genres, or authors in the Spanish-speaking world. Class readings and discussions are in English.
Current Special Topics
SPLT 050B: (LT) Latin American Voice Under 50
Reading others is the only way to internalize their experience –Albert Camus said in The Myth of Sisyphus. Literature is a voyage through other people’s inner, secret life. What does it feel like to be a young person from Latin America today? In this class, we will trace a map of pleasures and responsibilities, dreams and nightmares, of the young Latin American writers breaking it, as we speak, in the English publishing market. Class readings and discussions are in English.
SPLT 050K: (LT) Popular Music in Latin America
In this course, we look at popular musical genres in Latin America and Latinx USA in 20th and 21st Centuries to investigate how the creation, circulation, and consumption of popular music engage with the social and the political. In order to describe and analyze the creation and consumption of music as a complex cultural activity, students will become familiar with basic theoretical principles of the disciplines of popular culture studies and popular music studies—musical properties of songs or genres — e.g., instrumentation, dynamics, harmony, etc.
Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
May be repeated for credit when topics vary. As individual subjects are offered, each is assigned a letter (A-Z) which is affixed to the course number. Specific titles and course descriptions for special topics courses are available in the online class schedule. May not be taken on a Pass/D+/D/Fail basis. (Formerly Special Topics in Spanish and Latin American Literature in Translation.)
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