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

4 credits (Fall)

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 315, or SPN 317, with grade S, C, or better. Coursework in Latin American Studies highly recommended.
Instructor: Aparicio