SPAN 382 - Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Critical Theory

This course focuses on how Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx critical theorists, philosophers, writers, and artists have themselves imagined, conceptualized, and understood Latin America, the Caribbean, and the U.S. as geographical, cultural, social, and political spaces. Topics will include race, ethnicity, gender, and indigeneity in the Americas, as well as concepts and theoretical discourses such as indigenismo, mestizaje, hybridity, latinidad, négritude, liberation philosophy, and postcolonial, decolonial, and borderlands theory, among others. Readings will include theoretical and literary works, as well as essays and films.

Unit(s): 1
Group Distribution Requirement(s): Distribution Group I
Prerequisite(s): For Spanish credit: SPAN 321 or equivalent
Instructional Method: Conference
Grading Mode: Letter grading (A-F)
Cross-listing(s): LIT 398, CRES 338
Group Distribution Learning Outcome(s):

Understand how arguments can be made, visions presented, or feelings or ideas conveyed through language or other modes of expression (symbols, movement, images, sounds, etc.).
Analyze and interpret texts, whether literary or philosophical, in English or a foreign language, or works of the visual or performing arts.
Evaluate arguments made in or about texts (whether literary or philosophical, in English or a foreign language, or works of the visual or performing arts).