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CMLT 129 - Shock of the New: Revolution in Hispanic Culture

Type of Course: First-Year Seminar
Explores the ways in which the arts (literature, cinema and painting) are both transformative and transformed by major changes in ideology, science and technology, psychology, and society at large. Shock and change also happen when cultures contact and collide. Examples of topics covered in this course could be: the birth of cinema, the influence of Marxism in figures like Che Guevara, Fidel Castro and Pablo Neruda, Freud’s influence in Dali and the surrealists, Frida Kahlo as a feminist icon, and Africa’s influence on Picasso. Different topics and periods will be covered each semester. Taught in English. First year seminar. Crosslisted Comparative Literatures and Hispanic Studies.

Prerequisites: No prerequisites; restricted to first-year students.

Cross Listed: SPAN 129

Instructor: Ms. Atienza

When Offered: Offered periodically

Faculty: Belen Atienza, Ph.D. Assistant Professor
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