Rock, Pop & Resistance

This subject is not offered in 2014.

3 contact hours/week. 5 additional hours/week. Total of 8 hours per week.

Spanish 4 or Spanish 6 or Intermediate Language/Culture B or LaTrobe-Spanish Language & Culture 1B or equivalent.

Subject Code(s): SPAN10004 or SPAN20003 or SPAN10008 or SPAN20019 or SPAN30015 or SPAN20020

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Rock, Pop & Resistance at Level 3; SPAN20016/SPAN30012 Forms of Resistance.

For the purposes of considering requests for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Cwth 2005), and Students Experiencing Academic Disadvantage Policy, academic requirements for this subject are articulated in the Subject Description, Subject Objectives, Generic Skills and Assessment Requirements for this entry.

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In the Hispanic World, music, literature and cinema generally respond to specific socio-political contexts. This course explores different forms of resistance. protest songs, disident social movements, alternative literature, cinema and artistic reactions to socio-political events. Each of the forms of expression selected for this course are explored within the socio-cultural space/time from which they emerge, telling stories of pain, loss and defeat but also the complexity and endurance of the resistance. Despite the racial, geographical, national, genre and ideological differences, all these cultural expressions share the constant search for identity and freedom.

• Contextualize the dissident music, literature and social movements in the Latin America.
• Develop critical interpretation of song lyrics as a way of cultural expression of resistance.
• Explore issues of social and cultural dissidence in Latin America.

In this subject, your final outcome will be your own approach to an interpretation of a song, an artist's work, or any work of art or social movement that is resisting something. Therefore, all pieces of assessment are logically connected. First, you will have to do research and write a literary review (25%) about the topic you have chosen and submit it via Turnitin. Then, you will give an oral presentation (35%) to the class and after testing your ideas, you will write your final abstract (5%) and submit your final essay (30%) via Turnitin. During the whole semester, you will participate on a discussion board (10%) on LMS fortnightly to contribute to group discussion of issues emerging from everybody's chosen topics.

This subject has the following hurdle requirements:

• Regular participation in tutorials is required with a minimum of 75% attendance.
• All pieces of written work must be submitted to pass this subject.

Assessment submitted late without an approved extension will be penalised at 10% per day and in-class tasks missed without approval will not be marked.

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This subject potentially can be taken as a breadth subject component for the following courses:

• Bachelor of Biomedicine
• Bachelor of Commerce
• Bachelor of Environments
• Bachelor of Music
• Bachelor of Science
• Bachelor of Engineering

You should visit learn more about breadth subjects and read the breadth requirements for your degree, and should discuss your choice with your student adviser, before deciding on your subjects.

Acquire particular generic skills:

• Understanding of social, political, historical and cultural contexts and international awareness/openness to the world: through the contextualisation of judgements and knowledge, developing a critical self-awareness, being open to new ideas and new aspects of Hispanic culture, and by formulating arguments.
• Communicating knowledge intelligibly and economically through essay and assignment writing, tutorial discussion and class presentations.
• Public speaking and confidence in self-expression through tutorial participation and class presentations.