Spanish 230 - Latin American and Peninsular Culture and Society: Climate Voices
TOPC: LATN AMER CULTR-CLIMATE
Spring
2021
02
4.00
Molly Falsetti-Yu
MW 01:40-02:55
Smith College
30529-S21
REMOTE
mfalsett@smith.edu
Topics course. May be repeated once with a different topic.
Prerequisite SPN 220 or equivalent. Enrollment limited to 25: Climate change is a planetary crisis, yet its impacts and the responses to it vary both geographically and culturally. This course examines climate change and cultural-ecological narratives produced in Spanish-speaking regions of the world, with particular interest in alternative, non-mainstream media. These include community radio broadcasts and theater, participatory video, photography, graphic novels, and transmedia texts that uplift minority voices. In this course students work independently and collaboratively to explore who creates these narratives, and why, where and how they do so. As a final project, students will create their own climate change narratives using the texts studied as examples of alternative ways of communicating knowledge.
Prerequisite SPN 220 or equivalent. Enrollment limited to 25: Climate change is a planetary crisis, yet its impacts and the responses to it vary both geographically and culturally. This course examines climate change and cultural-ecological narratives produced in Spanish-speaking regions of the world, with particular interest in alternative, non-mainstream media. These include community radio broadcasts and theater, participatory video, photography, graphic novels, and transmedia texts that uplift minority voices. In this course students work independently and collaboratively to explore who creates these narratives, and why, where and how they do so. As a final project, students will create their own climate change narratives using the texts studied as examples of alternative ways of communicating knowledge.