Popular Cult in Latin Am/Spain

Catalog description

This course is a critical survey of Latin American and/or Spanish popular cultures: for example, soap operas, comedy, video, comic strips and different forms of popular music. These will be studied within comparative contexts and from different points of veiw; for example, as escape art, as a vehicle for identity construction, as a way of apprehending reality, or as key players in dominant and/or oppositional discourses. Prerequisite: One 3xxx-level Spanish course. Restricted to class of JR, SR.