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This course will introduce students to several key texts from Latina/o cultural production. It will also introduce a key question in contemporary cultural and plant studies analyses: how plants are represented in Latina/o American narrative from colonial to contemporary times? To this end we will study chronicles, poems, novels, plays, short stories and audio-visual narratives that have had a broad impact in the Spanish and English-speaking world. It will investigate how the plants from these stories have an influence in these narratives.
| Study Type | Undergraduate | Level | 3 |
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| Term | First Term | Credit Points | 15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits) |
| Campus | Aberdeen | Sustained Study | No |
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Plants are used by humans for food, clothing, medicine, cosmetics, ornaments, symbols, among other purposes. Besides their vital role in our world, they are understood as a mere commodity, and they are uncommon or non-central characters in narratives. In this course, plants will be place at the centre and in relation to other species.
This course aims to acquaint students with the tools of close reading analysis, taking into consideration critical plant theory and the historical context surrounding these texts. We will focus on specific authors and plants from these texts: corn plant, juniper tree, asphodel, coffee plant, among others. By the end of the course, students should be able to elaborate knowledgeable analysis of the texts we study, taking into account biocentric close readings as well as the social-historical contexts of the plants studied.
Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 15 | |
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| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 70 | |
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Written and Oral feedback. |
Word Count | 2000 | |
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| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 15 | |
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There are no assessments for this course.
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 100 | |
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| Factual | Remember | ILOs for this course can be found in the school course guide |
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