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Nov 27, 2024
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SPAN 126 - (LT) Contemporary Hispanic Thought: The Usable PastSemester Hours: 3
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This course aims to transcend the study of Spanish as a useful, practical language on a pedagogical level and use it, instead, to address concerns of historical, political, and contemporary relevance, which often transcend the borders of the Spanish-speaking world. It engages with issues such as recent social protests and student mobilizations across Latin America’s major capitals; the role of memory and past dictatorships in the neoliberal and post-neoliberal present; conflicts arising from massive industrialization and hyper-exploitation of labor; indigenous proposals for the defense of the common good against political designs; Garifuna and Afro-Central American land-claims and forms of resistance; indigenous forms of weaving a future for their communities; and the different ways in which these pressing contemporary issues are being approached from various gender, class, and ethnic perspectives. We will use critical thinking tools to assess various aesthetic and ethical proposals as they converge with contemporary thought on history and politics; we will do so through essays, films, artistic interventions, and various forms of activism and street action. This course, as all courses with the SPAN prefix, is taught in Spanish.
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