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SPAN4114: Spanish/Latin American Cultural Studies
2020 unit information
In this unit, students will be given an overview of the central paradigms and applications of cultural studies as they have arisen in multiple locations such as Western Europe, the Caribbean, and the Americas. Cultural studies can be conceived as an interdisciplinary practice, located at the intersection of sociology and anthropology, literary theory and philosophy. It is concerned with power, representation, identity and knowledge. Cultural studies engage with a very wide range of cultural forms (including, for example, crime fiction, rap music, soap operas and Bollywood films).
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| Study level | Undergraduate |
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| Academic unit | Spanish and Latin American Studies |
| Credit points | 6 |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. demonstrate critical thinking about culture, cultural phenomena, politics and society in Ibero- american contexts, showing an understanding of the main theories, concepts and issues under debate
- LO2. present arguments using and/or contesting such theories, concepts and issues in your honours work
- LO3. apply cultural studies paradigms to specific instances of society and culture
- LO4. demonstrate their critical thinking about your own relation to cultural forms of inquiry
- LO5. reflect on the locationality of knowledge, and articulate points of view on the limits of theory produced in Europe or the USA and uncritically applied to non-Anglo/Euro contexts.
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