SPAN 512: Mass Media and Popular Culture

SPAN 512-DL1: Mass Media and Popular Culture
(Spring 2020)

Online

Section Information for Spring 2020

As the enduring and ever-evolving telenovela shows -- from its origins in the radio drama; to its coming-of-age on national networks; to its reshaping on globalized formats -- Latin American mass media and Latin American popular culture are closely entwined. At the university, scholars have researched the Latin American mass media from various angles: as industrial products; as popular culture; and also as works of the imagination. This advanced course in the Spanish B.A. and M.A. program introduces students to several of these approaches in the academic disciplines of communication studies, cultural studies and film and media studies. Students will have an opportunity to apply these approaches in their analysis of historical and contemporary media narratives, including newspapers of the early republics; turn-of-the-century serial novels and radio dramas; comics and industrial film musicals in the age of nationalisms; national telenovelas in the dawn of television and globalized telenovelas in the digital present.

Recommended prerequisites: SPAN 370, 385, and 390; students may also register with professor’s permission. Course taught in Spanish and entirely online | Cross-listed with SPAN 482 DL. 

SPAN 512-DL1 is a distance education section.

Course Information from the University Catalog

Credits: 3

Introduction to critical perspectives on mass media in Spanish-speaking world. Course engages regions (Spain, Latin America, Latin@ United States) according to faculty specialty. Includes contextualization of media in nineteenth and twentieth-century historical processes and readings in critical theory. Develops graduate-level oral, written, and research skills in Spanish. May not be repeated for credit.
Registration Restrictions:

Enrollment limited to students with a class of Advanced to Candidacy, Graduate, Junior Plus, Non-Degree or Senior Plus.

Students in a Non-Degree Undergraduate degree may not enroll.

Schedule Type: Seminar
Grading:
This course is graded on the Graduate Regular scale.

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