Historical Perspectives on Current Issues

Catalog description

This course focuses on current critical social, political, and ecological issues in the Hispanic world by exploring their historical roots and developments through different literary and cultural manifestations, as a way to learn and improve our own understanding and relationship with these current issues in our present time. The focus may vary depending on the instructor's expertise (e.g, Inequality, discrimination, technology, pandemics, political polarization, misinformation, democracy, environmental justice, migration, ecological crisis, and energy). This course will also provide students with critical, analytical, and methodological tools for the study of Hispanic literature. Furthermore, students will develop their communicative skills through class discussion and academic writing in Spanish. PA-4C. CAS-A, CAS-B-LIT. Prerequisite: SPN 315 .