SPANISH CIVILIZATION AND CULTURE

(i will give you credentials to my school portal) – MY WORK HAS TO BE IN SPANISH BUT YOU CAN WRITE IT IN ENGLISH I’lL TRANSLATE – also use a translator for the TEXTS or the class materials they are in Spanish mostly

30% Keyword Videos (3) – a keyword video is a short, DIY video production that you will create in pre-established groups of 4-6 students using easily available digital tools or apps, smart phones and/or webcams. The keyword video should involve a critical discussion, presentation, or performance about a ‘key’ word that is relevant to the course.

>>>>>EXTREMELY IMPORTANT (!!!!!): Your keyword videos should not be merely descriptive—they should also have critical/analytical elements. This means that you will not just define the assigned keyword, you will also question it, examine how it plays out in the Spanish cultural texts we are studying in the course, and relates to elements such as form, theme, medium, voice, rhetoric and rhetorical devices, the nation, gender and sexuality, etc.

Keyword videos originated as a feminist teaching practice by FemTechNet. Learning Objectives for Keyword videos:
• Learn hands-on, applied skills in making short videos
• Make culture-related theoretical terms, ideas, and arguments approachable, accessible, and/or available in new formats, vernaculars, and to new audiences
• Connect cultural theories and practices along key themes
• Virtually present your ideas to others in the course
• Participate actively and with increased sophistication through the use of online tools (including social media if you so choose)
• See examples of keyword videos here (note that, for this course, your videos do not have to directly relate to feminism): https://vimeo.com/channels/femtechnetkeywords

WHAT I WANT FROM YOU : choose a word/concept, from EL SIGLO DE LAS LUCES or EL ROMANTICISMO, choose the appropriate texts (especially from class material, please translate them)
and write a two-page script VERY WELL STRUCTURED (sections and subsections, coherent order) like the script for the video presentation for FANDOM in order for me to be able to create an 6 to 8 minute long video