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Subject: Spanish (Grad) (GSPA)
CRN: 42813
Lecture
St Paul: O'Shaughnessy Education Center 302
This course examines topics in Hispanic Cinema, starting from early twentieth-century images, through cinema's Golden Age to the internationally produced twenty-first century films, designed for global consumption. With an eye toward understanding basic cinematographic technique and terminology, narrative structure, major cinematic movements, and salient sociocultural themes, students will view and analyze films representing Span, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Cuba, and Peru. The viewing of films will be accompanied by study of critical texts on cinema theory, the history of Hispanic Cinema, and scholarly articles on the films. Topics covered include nationalism and the individual; history and memory; urban and rural life; women, gender, and society, machismo and identity; non-traditional relationships and the family; religious identity; race relations and ethnicity; indigenism in cinema, human rights, land and labor rights.
3 Credits
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Subject: Spanish (SPAN)
CRN: 42812
Lecture
St Paul: O'Shaughnessy Education Center 302
Old Core Requirements Met:
UG Core Human Diversity
Other Requirements Met:
School of Ed Transfer Course
Writing Intensive
Examination of the cinematic arts as they relate to the cultures and literatures of the Spanish-speaking World. Course topics may include some of the following: gender, class, and/or ethnicity/race in Hispanic Cinema, discussion of film techniques, narrative structures, major directors, cinematic movements of Spain, Latin America, and/or U.S. Latino film, or the relationship of film to history, culture and society. May be taken twice with different topics. This course fulfills the Human Diversity requirement in the core curriculum. Prerequisites: Successful completion of SPAN 300, 301, 305 and 335 or their equivalents with a C- or better in each course.
4 Credits