Off-campus courses, both international and in the United States, are offered during the January Interim. They vary from year to year. Details are available in the Off-Campus Interims brochure published each spring and in the Interims Announcement printed in mid-fall.
The following program will be offered in January 2021:
Spanish 274: Contemporary Issues (online course). “Narratives of Life in Contemporary Puerto Rico: A Comparative Outlook To and From the Caribbean and Latin America”
Prerequisite: Spanish 250
Prof. Kristina Medina-Vilarño
Monday, Wednesday, Friday: 12:55pm – 1:50pm. See class schedule on SIS for further details on scheduling.
Students analyze patterns of continuity and change in Latin America, with an emphasis on the Caribbean. Using readings from the press, social media, academic sources, and governmental as well as non-governmental documents, students read, discuss, and write about issues at an advanced level of linguistic and analytical sophistication. The course includes study of at least one substantive literary work. Possible themes include politics, race, class, gender and sexuality, protests, music, religion, natural disasters,or crossing borders and the challenges of migration. Taught in Spanish.
Texts:
Crónicas del colapso: economía, política y sociedad de Puerto Rico en el siglo XXI de Emilio Pantojas García
Entre islas: Homenaje puertorriqueño a Juan Bosch (colección de ensayos)