Spanish 330: Hispanic Testimonials
Course Description:
A course on individual and collective memoirs, diaries, confessions and traveling accounts. Students read and analyze written texts and films, keep journals, and create life writing or multimedia production in Spanish.
Course Narrative:
This course has to be one of my favorite course I have taken at CSUMB. The course focuses on the testimonies of the ones who do not have a voice in society. A lot of the readings we read in class left me speechless. We learned the requirements of what makes a testimony. The testimonies we read in class went from salves in Cuba to students being killed by their own government in Mexico. A lot of the stories we read were cruel and unbelievable. I believe that the testimonies are important because we hear what has happen and try to prevent it from happening again. I think the reading that got to me the most was La Noche de Tlatelolco and Ayotzinapa, student activist in Mexico that were killed or disappeared by their own government. The reason that it hit me the most might be because I am Mexican and I did not know what had happen in 1968 with La Noche de Tlatelolco and it is sad how history repeated itself again in 2014 with Ayotzinapa.
A course on individual and collective memoirs, diaries, confessions and traveling accounts. Students read and analyze written texts and films, keep journals, and create life writing or multimedia production in Spanish.
Course Narrative:
This course has to be one of my favorite course I have taken at CSUMB. The course focuses on the testimonies of the ones who do not have a voice in society. A lot of the readings we read in class left me speechless. We learned the requirements of what makes a testimony. The testimonies we read in class went from salves in Cuba to students being killed by their own government in Mexico. A lot of the stories we read were cruel and unbelievable. I believe that the testimonies are important because we hear what has happen and try to prevent it from happening again. I think the reading that got to me the most was La Noche de Tlatelolco and Ayotzinapa, student activist in Mexico that were killed or disappeared by their own government. The reason that it hit me the most might be because I am Mexican and I did not know what had happen in 1968 with La Noche de Tlatelolco and it is sad how history repeated itself again in 2014 with Ayotzinapa.