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Apr 30, 2024
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SPAN104 PO - Laughing Matters: Humor in Hispanic Literature, Film and CultureWhen Offered: Last offered spring 2015.
Instructor(s): J. Cartagena-Calderón
Credit: 1
This interdisciplinary course will explore expressions of humor in Spain, Latin America and Latino USA, through analysis of a wide range of visual and textual cultural products from the Middle Ages to contemporary popular culture. Samples analyzed come from short stories, plays, essays, poetry, comic strips, paintings, stand-up comedy, social media and films. We will examine relationships between humor and madness, eccentricity, otherness, marginality, self-consciousness, self-criticism, power, dissent, resistance, transgression, conformity, misogyny, [in]tolerance, violence, social justice, politics, gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, class and literary/artistic creativity. Letter grade only. Prerequisites: SPAN 044 PO or equivalent.
Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
Area 1; Language Requirement
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