Unit name | Critical Concepts in the Study of the Hispanic World |
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Unit code | HISP10010 |
Credit points | 20 |
Level of study | C/4 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 2 (weeks 13 - 24) |
Unit director | Professor. Brown |
Open unit status | Open |
Pre-requisites |
None |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | Department of Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Studies |
Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
This unit will explore the major themes and concepts which students need to comprehend in order to understand the cultures, histories and literatures of the Hispanic world. Moving through themes such as gender, narrative, popular culture, linguistics, colonialism and identity, the unit will introduce students to the major theoretical and conceptual approaches to the study of the Hispanic world. In seminars students will explore 8 key texts or sources in detail, and analyse these in their cultural, political and historical contexts.
By the end of the unit, students will:
1 lecture and 1 seminar per week.
Students will be provided with a reading list and source booklet; extensive use will also be made of Blackboard.
One learning portfolio (accounting for 100% of the mark), consisting of 8 x 500-word reports on each of the eight central subjects (total 4000 words) discussed in weekly seminars. The portfolio will test ILOs 1-3.
D. T. Gies (ed.), The Cambridge History of Spanish Literature (Cambridge, 2004).
Helen Graham, and Jo Labanyi (eds.), Spanish Cultural Studies, (Oxford, 1995).
Jo Labanyi, Spanish Literature: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford, 2010)
Sally Faulkner, A History of Spain Film: Cinema and Society 1910-2010 (London, 2013)
Phil Swanson, (ed.), The Companion to Latin American Studies (London: Arnold, 2003).
Matthew Brown, From Frontiers to Football: Latin American History from 1800 to the present (London, 2014)
John King, Magical Reels: A History of Cinema in Latin America (London, 2000)