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Prerequisite: SPAN 203 or satisfactory performance on placement examination or permission of the department chair. A selection of films and documentaries from Latin America, Spain and the United States will be discussed as social texts that articulate through different genres and époques, crucial issues of national identity, violence, repression, north/south relations, gender and memory as a collective reconstruction of the past. Directors may vary.

Prerequisite: SPAN 202 or satisfactory performance on placement examination or permission of the department chair. A look at Latin America as it is today: historical, social, economic and geographical factors that are shaping the different countries and their people.

Prerequisite: SPAN 203 or satisfactory performance on placement examination or permission of the department chair. A survey of the main trends in literary and popular culture from the 20th century. A close reading of the foundational texts of literary historiography from Modernism to Postmodernism. Discussion of the region’s key concepts: transculturation, "magical realism/marvelous real," "Boom and Postboom," "testimonio" and the new historical novel.