SPAN 352 - Voces caribeñas

FDR: HL
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Spring 2012 and alternate years

Prerequisite: SPAN 215 or 275, SPAN 240 or 212, and at least three credits from any 300-level Spanish course. A multi-genre study of artistic and cultural representations from Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico, with special emphasis on the resultant impact on the U.S. Caribbean diaspora. Viewed as a collage of Caribbean “voices,” this course examines artistic works that reflect a sense of Spanish-Caribbean identity. Students analyze diverse examples from prose, poetry, film, music, and the plastic arts, as well as non-fiction discourses. Barnett.