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SP30YB: KEY TOPICS IN SPANISH AND LATIN AMERICAN CULTURE 1A (2023-2024)

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Course Overview

From Wales to Patagonia and Montevideo to Barcelona. From Czarist Russia to the Pampas and Sandinista Nicaragua to Glasgow. Artists and revolutionaries, exiles and migrants populate the books and films studied in this course. We will examine portrayals of transatlantic travel as a means of reinterpreting some of the most significant political events and cultural debates that have marked Latin America since the 19th century until today. We will focus on books and films that present us with different forms of travel from Latin America to Europe, but also Africa and Asia, and vice versa. Studying biographical and fictional accounts of transatlantic crossovers will allow us to understand Latin American history as implicated in a broader transnational network of people and ideas. We will explore topics such as the Jewish diaspora, the global circulation of cultural forms such as tango, the transatlantic dimension of anarchist and socialist activism, and the transnational flows of capital and workers that characterize our neoliberal contemporaneity. While examining these books and films, we will also explore academic reflections on the scope and methods of Transatlantic Studies, which will allow us to rethink our own position as students and academics interested in studying Latin American culture from the other side of the Atlantic.

Course Details

Study Type Undergraduate Level 3
Term First Term Credit Points 15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits)
Campus Aberdeen Sustained Study No
Co-ordinators
  • Dr Rodrigo Lopez

What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

  • Either European Studies (EU) or Spanish And Latin American Studies (SP)
  • Either Programme Level 3 or Programme Level 4
  • Any Undergraduate Programme (Studied)

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

None.

Are there a limited number of places available?

No

Course Description

From Wales to Patagonia and Montevideo to Barcelona. From Czarist Russia to the Pampas and Sandinista Nicaragua to Glasgow. Artists and revolutionaries, exiles and migrants populate the books and films studied in this course. We will examine portrayals of transatlantic travel as a means of reinterpreting some of the most significant political events and cultural debates that have marked Latin America since the 19th century until today. We will focus on books and films that present us with different forms of travel from Latin America to Europe, but also Africa and Asia, and vice versa. Studying biographical and fictional accounts of transatlantic crossovers will allow us to understand Latin American history as implicated in a broader transnational network of people and ideas. We will explore topics such as the Jewish diaspora, the global circulation of cultural forms such as tango, the transatlantic dimension of anarchist and socialist activism, and the transnational flows of capital and workers that characterize our neoliberal contemporaneity. While examining these books and films, we will also explore academic reflections on the scope and methods of Transatlantic Studies, which will allow us to rethink our own position as students and academics interested in studying Latin American culture from the other side of the Atlantic.


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Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 30 August 2024 for 1st term courses and 20 December 2024 for 2nd term courses.

Summative Assessments

Presentation

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 15
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Feedback

Oral and written feedback.

Learning Outcomes
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Essay

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 70
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Word Count 2000
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Seminar Assessment Mark

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 15
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Formative Assessment

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Resit Assessments

one 2,000 word essay submission

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 100
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Feedback Written
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