Latin America and the Caribbean: Arts and Cultures

Catalog description

This interdisciplinary course examines artistic, literary, and cultural movements of Latin America and the Caribbean through humanities disciplines. Students will develop research projects; themes and approaches may vary by instructor. The course may focus on indigenous civilizations, Afro-diasporic-creole culturaland spiritual developments during colonial times and beyond slavery, as well as twentieth-century’s modernist and avant- garde literary movements, indigenismo, pan-African undertakings, trans-Caribbean musical genres, nueva canción latinoamericana, cinema, visual arts, theater and performance, publications, and cultural responses to dictatorships. Current digital artforms and media and their multiple debates on free trade, migration, gender, feminism, queer aesthetics and the environment could be also addressed. (Students will receive credit for only one of the following courses: BLS; LACS; or LTS 4902. These courses may substitute for each other in the F-replacement policy.)