Courses :: Module, HISPANIC LITERATURE AND CULTURE IN THE 21ST CENTURY

	Overview
	This module will provide students with the opportunity to explore selected aspects of Spanish-language literary and cultural production from recent decades. During this time, literature and culture have undergone change in response to globalisation, technological advance, and the social, political and ecological challenges that have shaped 21st-century life so far. The module will focus on specific literary and audiovisual texts, in addition to digital and/or web-based media. Students taking the module will be supplied with the critical frameworks and concepts that will enable them to engage in close readings of these texts, and to thereby uncover how they relate to 21st-century life and what they can tell us about the present historical moment.

Overview

This module will provide students with the opportunity to explore selected aspects of Spanish-language literary and cultural production from recent decades. During this time, literature and culture have undergone change in response to globalisation, technological advance, and the social, political and ecological challenges that have shaped 21st-century life so far. The module will focus on specific literary and audiovisual texts, in addition to digital and/or web-based media. Students taking the module will be supplied with the critical frameworks and concepts that will enable them to engage in close readings of these texts, and to thereby uncover how they relate to 21st-century life and what they can tell us about the present historical moment.

	Learning Outcomes
	On successful completion of the module, students should be able to: Identify, interpret, and analyse a wide range of Spanish-language literary texts and cultural productions relating to a range of contemporary concerns. Situate Spanish-language literary and cultural texts within their wider social, economic, political and cultural contexts. Identify and critically assess texts according to a range of relevant theoretical frameworks. Develop media literate and critically aware strategies for online research and online engagement in the target language. Build effective, efficient and well-organised project-oriented groups, founded on principles of collaboration, mutual advancement, and intercultural communication.

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