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Class number:
3151
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Title: Desert Fantasies |
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Department: Language and Culture Studies |
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Career: Undergraduate |
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Component: Seminar |
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Session: Regular |
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Instructor's Permission Required: No |
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Grading Basis: Regular |
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Units: 1.00 |
| Enrollment limited to 19 |
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Current enrollment: 4 |
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Available seats: 15 |
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Start date: Wednesday, January 25, 2023 |
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End date: Friday, May 12, 2023 |
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Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Schedule: R: 1:30PM-4:10PM, SH - T121 |
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Instructor(s): Hubert, Rosario |
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Prerequisite(s): None |
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Distribution Requirement: Meets Humanities and Global Requirements |
Course Description:
Deserts comprise approximately one-third of the Earth's surface and take shape in enormous scorching and freezing lands. This courses proposes a study of Latin American literary traditions through an analysis of deserts like Sonora, Patagonia, Atacama, and Antarctica. We will explore images of these particular territories in connection to urgent themes such as global warming, waste, migration, and the effects of feverish developmentalism, always trying to answer a key question: how can humans inhabit the inhospitable? By connecting foreign cultural traditions with contemporary issues very relevant to our planet today, this course hopes to engage with discourses of ecocriticism, visual culture, literary studies, and intellectual history. |