FLGE 363 - Macondo Experience

Credits: (3)
Students will read, during the first six weeks of the semester, the book Cien años de soledad/One Hundred Years of Solitude a novel by Gabriel García Márquez who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982 with this work. Students will travel (trip is mandatory and part of this course) during Fall break to Cartagena, Colombia as our base to visit the town of the author’s childhood: Aracataca or the Macondo of the novela. During the semester students will analyze the novela from a literary point of view, as well as looking at how the town of his childhood influenced the creation of such a wonderful novel; once in Colombia and after the visit to Aracataca/Macondo, students will hand in a paper (two weeks after the Fall break) analyzing how the fame of the Literary Nobel Prize and its world recognition of the novela, affected this town. Cartagena is also the site of the famous novela by the same author called El amor en los tiempos del cólera/Love in the Times of Cholera. Students will be strongly recommended to read this novela, on their own, to appreciate more the beautiful historic city of Cartagena de Indias, Colombia. During the trip, students will take cultural excursions and activities related to the course, beside the visit to Aracataca/Macondo: Cartagena historic City Tour; Tour of Gabriel García Márquez and his life in Cartagena. This course will count as the Global Encounters. Course will be taught, once a week in Spanish (on Mondays) and in English (on Wednesdays). The course taken in Spanish will count also towards the Spanish minor or major. The course includes 6 weeks of classes at the university and the trip during fall break to complete the 3 credits.