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Sep 24, 2024
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College Bulletin 2014-2015 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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SPAN 009. First-Year Seminar: A New World: Conquests, Encounters and Dialogues in and around Latin America (W)
In this first-year seminar we will explore the New World that resulted from the “discovery,” colonization and exploitation of Latin America by the Europeans, particularly the Spanish. The encounter between the “Old” and the “New” Worlds was a two-way exchange in which new cultures emerged from the ruins of those destroyed, and the way of conceiving of the world and the self was utterly transformed for all involved. We will read texts by Europeans who encountered others and imposed upon them, but also texts by the defeated, where they tell their side of the story. Furthermore, we will pay special attention to those subjects in between different worlds, from Florida and Peru to Mozambique and Japan. Readings include texts by Columbus, Cortés and Las Casas; Aztecs, Mayans and Incas; and More, Montaigne and Shakespeare. In English.
Eligible for LASC Credit.
Writing course.
(Cross-listed as LITR 009S )
1 credit.
Fall 2014. Valencia.
http://www.swarthmore.edu/spanish
Modern Languages and Literatures: Spanish
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