Foundations in Visual Culture in Iberian, Latin American, and Luso-Brazilian Worlds

4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)

(Same as Portuguese M122.) Lecture, four hours. Requisite: course 25 or 27 or Portuguese 25 or 26 or 27. Taught in English. Addresses specificities of visual culture in Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking worlds. Through critical engagement with wide range of visual materials—from 16th-century maps of Americas to YouTube videos of street protects in Chile; from Modernist architectural designs for new national capitals to telenovelas and colonial photographs; and everything in between—introduction to practices, processes, objects of study, and interdisciplinary critical frameworks of field of visual culture studies. By examining manifestations of visual culture from Iberian, Latin American, and Luso-Brazilian contexts, students gain culturally specific foundations of visual knowledge and skills of visual literacy. P/NP or letter grading.