Courses - Faculty of Arts
Latin American Studies
Stage II
Special Topic: Latin American Icons
An examination of the ways in which Latin America, as a place and a people, has served as a site of otherness and exoticism, providing an economic and symbolic capital for the consumption and pleasure of colonial, neo-colonial and neo-liberal powers. Latin American cultural studies texts offer students a way to read against the grain established by this process.
Prerequisite: 30 points from BA courses or 15 points from BGlobalSt courses
Restriction: LATINAM 306
Latin American History and Culture Through Film
A journey through five moments of Latin American history and culture, from its creation as a region imagined through the gaze of colonialism, through the development of an independent, revolutionary Third Cinema, to the present when globalisation is critiqued from the periphery.
Prerequisite: 15 points from COMMS 100, FTVMS 100, 101, 112, MEDIA 101, SPANISH 103, 105, 200, 201, 277, 278, 319, 321, 377, 378, or 45 points in BGlobalSt courses
Restriction: LATINAM 303
Study Abroad (Latin America)
A minimum of four weeks of study at an overseas institution approved by the Spanish and Latin American Study Abroad Adviser.
Prerequisite: Programme Coordinator approval
Visual Cultures and Industries in Latin America
Follows transformations in Latin American visual cultures and culture industries since the 1930s, from the liberal to the neoliberal era. Throughout this history, who controls visual media production and how does this control relate to democracy? Have recent alliances between Indigenous groups and social movements to introduce new Media Laws successfully widened participation and challenged corporate media ownership?
Prerequisite: 45 points in BA courses or approval of Programme Coordinator
Restriction: LATINAM 310
Music, Politics and Social Change
A theorised study of the history of twentieth-century social movements in Latin America through its poetry and music, largely as expressed in popular forms. The major focus is on the political and cultural manifestations of these expressions as they respond to and instigate social change.
Prerequisite: 15 points from SPANISH 103, 105, 200, 201, 277, 278, 319, 321, 377, 378
Restriction: LATINAM 301, SPANISH 216
Stage III
Music, Politics and Social Change
A theorised study of the history of twentieth-century social movements in Latin America through its poetry and music, largely as expressed in popular forms. The major focus is on the political and cultural manifestations of these expressions as they respond to and instigate social change.
Prerequisite: 15 points from LATINAM 201, SPANISH 202, 306, or 30 points at Stage II in BGlobalSt courses
Restriction: LATINAM 216, SPANISH 216
Latin American History and Culture through Film
A journey through five moments of Latin American history and culture, from its creation as a region imagined through the gaze of colonialism, through the development of an independent, revolutionary Third Cinema, to the present when globalisation is critiqued from the periphery.
Prerequisite: 15 points from LATINAM 216, 301, SPANISH 202, or 30 points at Stage II in BGlobalSt courses
Restriction: LATINAM 201
Study Abroad (Latin America)
A minimum of four weeks of study at an overseas institution approved by the Spanish and Latin American Study Abroad Adviser.
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage II from the BA schedule or approval of Academic Head or nominee
Latin American Icons: The Political Economy of Otherness
An examination of the ways in which Latin America, as a place and a people, has served as a site of otherness and exoticism providing economic and symbolic capital for the consumption and pleasure of colonial, neo-colonial and neo-liberal powers. Latin American cultural studies texts offer students a way to read against the grain established by this process.
Prerequisite: 15 points from LATINAM 201, 216, SPANISH 201, 202, or 30 points at Stage II in BGlobalSt courses
Restriction: SPANISH 306, 729
Visual Cultures and Industries
Follows transformations in Latin American visual cultures and culture industries since the 1930s, from the liberal to the neoliberal era. Throughout this history, who controls visual media production and how does this control relate to democracy? Have recent alliances between Indigenous groups and social movements to introduce new Media Laws successfully widened participation and challenged corporate media ownership?
Prerequisite: 45 points at Stage II in BA courses or approval of Programme Coordinator
Restriction: LATINAM 210
Latin American Knowledges
An examination of new knowledges produced in Latin America that have influenced socio-political theory and global epistemological paradigms but are subalternised as art, culture, or politics. Therefore this course will examine the link between theory and practice in the creation of new knowledge.
Prerequisite: 15 points from LATINAM 201, 216, POLITICS 234, SOCIOL 210, SPANISH 202, or 30 points at Stage II in BGlobalSt courses
Restriction: SPANISH 720