Mexico City: Cultural Capital of Modernity

3.0 credits · Undergraduate

This seminar explores the culture of Mexico City in relation to its rapid modernization and growth in the 20th and 21st century. One of the largest cities in the world, and a point of encounter and global forms of art and culture. Mexico City provides a key example of the ways in which modernization becomes experienced in both the arts and popular culture. This course will explore this process from the explosion of the city beginning in the 1920s, all the way to the present. We will explore the way in which art, literature, media and popular culture capture the sounds and images of the city. This course is taught in Spanish.