Travel in SPAN-Spkng Contxts

Catalog description

This course is a survey of the experience of travel in Spanish-speaking contexts. Theories of travel and border crossing are important fundamentals to the course, which may have different specific foci: early travel in Spain; travel and conquest of the Americas; travel to and from Spain and to and from Latin America; migration/immigration; peoples on the move; travel and diary/memoir writing; female travelers, pilgrimages in the Spanish-speaking world and bilingual Southwest. The topic of travel in Spanish- speaking contexts is approached through a variety of perspectives, including literary, religious, artistic, political and social-cultural. Prerequisites: SPAN 2302 OR SPAN 2304 OR equivalent, with a grade of C or better. Restricted to class of JR, SR.