Jun 02, 2025  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Hill Book 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Hill Book

SPA 251 - Conflict, Oppression, and Resistance in Hispanic Film

3 Credits
Offered periodically
Taught in English, this course offers a critical overview of the role filmmakers from various backgrounds have played in interpreting and addressing systems of oppression affecting diverse social and cultural identities within Hispanic and Latino communities. Through an analysis of Hispanic cinema (1990-2020), this course explores issues such as migration and exile, child abuse, trauma of war and genocide, gender-based violence, conflicts over socio-economic status, and racial discrimination within the Spanish-speaking world.

Core Curriculum Attribute(s): Diversity, Power, and Resistance Language, Arts, and Humanities  
Note: Taught in English