Spanish
LARC’S collaboration with the Department of Spanish & Portuguese includes the development of regional Border Culture and Baja Lit projects to international projects on Human Rights in Latin America, Testimonial Literature from Argentina’s “Disappeared” era and an ethnographic study of Spanish Women’s Voices.
Baja Literature & Border Culture
SDSU’s border proximity provides rich sources of border culture and language. Projects such as Professor Mario Martin’s “Baja Literature” and special studies for Human Rights in Latin American provide authentic resources for learners to explore the Spanish language and literature at all registers while focusing particularly on border culture, economics, history, sociology and intercultural understanding.
Link: http://larc.sdsu.edu/Baja
Human Rights in Latin America
Human Rights in Latin America
The Human Rights (HR) project focuses on understanding human rights issues in Latin America by examining authentic Spanish language resources. Interactive exploration enables learners to establish their perspective from the site’s rich resource library, and share their opinions. These HR resources gain student interest in learning more (and thus, in reading more) about the critical and timely subject of human rights — in the target language, and from multiple perspectives, and at multiple levels of linguistic proficiency.
Link: http://larc.sdsu.edu/humanrights/
Los Desaparecidos
LARC created a website for Argentina’s historical “Los Desaparecidos” or “The Disappeared” in conjunction with the Human Right in Latin Americas site. Professor Nora Strejilevich, one of the few “disappeared” to escape death, has made testimonial literature of these times her main focus of research. This site explores testimonials via authentic video interviews and related literature.
Links:
Los Derecoschos Humanos en México
Human Rights in Latin America Site
Human Rights In Latin America Reference Resources
Interviews with Former Guerilla Leader, Cesar Montes
Interviews About 1970’s Political Situation in Chile with Elizabeth Lira
Women’s Voices (VOCES)
LARC created a website for Professor Tess Lane’s ethnographic study of female attitudes concerning their cultures and lifestyles drawn from hypotheses about contrasting comparisons of these women. Given a consistent set of questions, women from similar regions and cultural areas are interviewed on videotape. The digitized interviews are accessible on the Web for teaching about cultural attitude at different language levels.
Link: http://larc.sdsu.edu/Voces/