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SPAN M122

Bruinwalk
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Foundations in Visual Culture in Iberian, Latin American, and Luso-Brazilian Worlds

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(Same as Portuguese M122.) Lecture, four hours. Requisite: course 25 or 27 or Portuguese 25 or 26 or 27. Taught in English. Addresses specificities of visual culture in Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking worlds. Through critical engagement with wide range of visual materials-from 16th-century maps of Americas to YouTube videos of street protects in Chile; from Modernist architectural designs for new national capitals to telenovelas and colonial photographs; and everything in between-introduction to practices, processes, objects of study, and interdisciplinary critical frameworks of field of visual culture studies. By examining manifestations of visual culture from Iberian, Latin American, and Luso-Brazilian contexts, students gain culturally specific foundations of visual knowledge and skills of visual literacy. P/NP or letter grading.

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