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Class number:
3002
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Title: Reels of Change |
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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 |
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Current enrollment: 18 |
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Available seats: 1 |
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Start date: Tuesday, January 21, 2025 |
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End date: Friday, May 9, 2025 |
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Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Schedule: W: 6:30PM-9:00PM, LIB - 181 |
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Instructor(s): Aponte-Aviles, Aidali |
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Prerequisite(s): Prerequisite: HISP 260 or higher, 270 recommended |
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Distribution Requirement: Meets Humanities and Global Requirements |
Course Description:
For more than 135 years, films have shaped information, interpretation, and understanding. Like any other cultural product, cinema is able to convey the spirit of the time and location. Therefore, it is necessary to examine its viewpoints, interpretive decisions, and biases. This course looks at Hispanophone motion pictures as primary historical sources and as metaphors of sociopolitical, historical, and cultural change. Films from Spain, the Americas, Africa, and the Pacific will be examined to analyze them as representations of cultural change. We will study how these films react to and are influenced by political and sociocultural contexts, how filmmakers use film to represent their experiences and history, how cinema frames the fears and concerns at a period in time, and how viewers reinterpret their meaning. This course will be taught in Spanish. |