Module overview
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- select, synthesise and focus information about the Spanish speaking world from a range of primary and secondary sources
- define, present and exemplify concepts related to the Spanish Speaking world
- apply knowledge, understanding and analysis critically to different topics relating to the Spanish speaking world
- engage with subject matter and opinion in both breadth and depth
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- use libraries, archives, learning resources and ICT to access relevant information
- produce writing in appropriate genres and to required conventions, including referencing and identification;
- exercise independence and initiative
- adhere to guidelines and deadlines;
- plan and organise your learning through self-management;
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- An appreciation of the different modes of response of audiences of high, popular, mass/ globalised and hybrid culture of the Spanish speaking world
- Theories of high, popular, mass culture and more recent ones in context of globalisation and hybridity in the Spanish speaking world
- Key aspects of the politics, cultures and histories of the Spanish speaking world
- A range of high, popular, mass, hybrid/ globalised cultural texts in different media from the Spanish speaking world and techniques for analysing a variety of cultural forms
- The similarities and differences between the cultures and societies of the Spanish Speaking world and how it may compare to your own culture
Syllabus
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Type | Hours |
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Teaching | 24 |
Independent Study | 126 |
Total study time | 150 |
Resources & Reading list
Internet Resources
Textbooks
Burke, Peter (2009). Cultural Hybridity. Cambridge: Polity Press.
Strinati, Dominic (1995). An Introduction to Theories of Popular Culture. London: Routledge.
Huyssen, Andreas. After the Great Divide: Modernism, Mass culture, Postmodernism. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
An Introductory Guide to Cultural Theory and Popular Culture. New York: Harvester Wheatsheaf.
Imagined Communities (1991). Imagined Communities. Imagined Communities: Verso.
Storey, John (ed), (1994). Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: a Reader. New York: Harvester Wheatsheaf..
Homi Bhabha. The Location of Culture (a difficult book but a foundational text of postcolonial theory; the chapter on stereotypes is especially useful).
Canclini, Nestor García (1995). Hybrid Cultures: Strategies for Entering and Leaving Modernity globalización.
Shaw, Debra (2017). Transnational Cinemas: Mapping a field of study - for the Routledge Companion to World Cinema, edited by Rob Stone, Paul Cooke, Stephanie Dennison & Alex Marlow-Mann.
William Rowe and Vivian Schelling (1991). Memory and Modernity: Popular Culture in Latin America. London: Verso.
Raab, Josef, and Martin Butler, eds (2008). Hybrid Americas: Contacts, Contrasts, and Confluences in New World Literatures and Cultures. https://www.uni- bielefeld.de/(de)/ZIF/FG/2008Pluribus/publications/raab-Butler_intro-hybrid.pdf.
Fredric Jameson and Masao Miyoshi (eds) (1998). The Cultures of Globalization. Durham: Duke UP.
Assessment
Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Essay | 45% |
Essay | 45% |
Presentation | 10% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Essay | 50% |
Essay | 50% |
Repeat
An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Essay | 45% |
Individual Presentation | 10% |
Essay | 45% |
Repeat Information
Repeat type: Internal & External