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SPN 395-01 - Advanced Special Topic: Caravans, Gangs, Drugs: Central America

4 credits (Fall Term 1)
This course focuses on Central American and Central America-American literature and cultures. It meditates on representations of social class, gender, and national identity in post-conflict Central America and in US Central American communities. We will read posts and writers writing in and from armed conflicts who are now faced with post-conflict, globalizing societies in and out of the isthmus. Class texts include poetry and fiction, in addition to films and readings in the social sciences.  

Prerequisite: SPN 311 SPN 312 SPN 314 SPN 315 , or SPN 317 .    
Note: Plus-2 option available.
Instructor: Aparicio