Fall 2018  |  CHIC 1912 Section 001: Performing Latina/o/x Identities: Media, Art, and Popular Culture (34782)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Discussion
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Instructor Consent:
Department Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Freshman Seminar
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/04/2018 - 12/12/2018
Mon, Wed 11:15AM - 12:30PM
UMTC, East Bank
Vincent Hall 206
Enrollment Status:
Closed (20 of 20 seats filled)
Course Catalog Description:
This course will critically engage with the representation of Latinos and Latinas in the media and with how Latinas and Latinos represent themselves when they are granted creative freedom in mainstream, independent, and social media. Students will begin by learning how Latina/o/x identity has been curated, debated, and performed in popular and in independent media, in official counts and politics, in social movements and in academia. By engaging with scholarship on media representation in Latina/o Studies, students will learn to identify the major representative tropes of Latinos in television, film, and in print and news media. Students will learn to read and analyze visual representation and performance art as text in order to differentiate between signifiers of tropes and iterations of self-representation in media and art produced by both Latinxs and non-Latinxs. Students will engage with performance theory and feminist theory to learn to read and critique how race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and narratives of intersectionality are curated and represented in mainstream and independent media. The course will query: What are the most popular narratives about Latinos represented in mainstream media? How are stereotypes about Latinos perpetuated by the media? How do Communication Studies and Latina/o Studies scholars critique one-dimensional representations of Latinos in the media and in popular culture? How do Latinos represent themselves as multi-dimensional when they create their own art or media? How is Latina/o intersectionality represented in the media and in Latina/o/x-created art-forms? The course will incorporate performances and workshops led by locally and nationally-renown Latina/o artists.
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/34782/1189

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