SPAN 672 - Sugar, Salsa & Santeria

Credit(s): 3

SUGAR, SALSA, SANTERIA
Component: Lecture
Explores Caribbean cultures through music, film, religion and other forms of expression. Focus on diaspora, slavery, colonialism, and the formation of present-day postcolonial cultures, and examine the articulation of Caribbean identities through such concepts as contrapunteo, calibanismo, zombiismo, negrismo, aplatanamiento, and insularismo. Taught in Spanish, with some Francophone and Anglophone texts in English. Students will prepare one presentation, weekly short writing assignments, midterm and final.
Repeatable for Credit: N Allowed Units: 3 Multiple Term Enrollment: N Grading Basis: Student Option