SPAN 4715

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SPAN 4715
Civilization and Barbarism

Course information provided by the 2023-2024 Catalog. Courses of Study 2023-2024 is scheduled to publish mid-June.

What does it mean to be civilized?  What does it mean to be barbaric? Who decides who is civilized and who is not?  Is there an intrinsic relationship between the two?  This course studies the way a colonial and racist heritage, which divided the world into 'civilized' and 'savage,' 'European ' and 'cannibal,' was taken up again after colonial independence as a key question for Latin American thinkers concerned with modernization, anticolonialism and dictatorship.  Starting in the nineteenth century, we will trace the continuities and transformations of the concepts of civilization and barbarism in diverse local contexts of Latin America up until today.


Prerequisites/Corequisites Prerequisite: SPAN 2180.

Language Requirement Satisfies Option 1.

Distribution Category (ALC-AS, LA-AS)

When Offered Fall.

Comments This is the mandatory senior seminar required for all Spanish majors.

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18457 SPAN 4715   SEM 101

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    • MW McGraw Hall 365
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023

    • Gubbins, V

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Prerequisites: SPAN 2180. This is the senior seminar required for all Spanish majors.