Undergraduate Prerequisites: Prereq: CASLS 212; or Spanish SAT subject test score of 560 or higher, or placement test results. - Advanced study of the Spanish language through the analysis of films and media of the Spanish- speaking world: cinema, the internet, and social media. Topics for Fall 2024: Section A1: La Road Movie. Analyzes how films from Hispanic countries portray these quests for meaning and/or change. Students learn to analyze socio-political, narrative, and cinematographic elements of each film. This knowledge informs their own multimedia projects. Section B1: The Music of Protest & Social Change in Latin America. Through films, music videos, and musical criticism, students better understand the role music plays in discourses of politics, power, race, and gender in Latin America. Course includes collaborative projects, publications, and film analyses. Creative work encouraged. Section C1: Revolutionary Cinema of the Southern Cone. The 1960s witnessed political upheaval across Latin America. In Chile and Argentina, this cultural revolution manifested itself in a series of documentaries, such as La hora de los hornos and La batalla de Chile. This course explores these and similar works. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Digital/Multimedia Expression, Creativity/Innovation.

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