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## SPAN S-64 Study Abroad in Mexico: Encountering Mexico - Public Art in the Contemporary City

**Adriana Gutiérrez,** PhD, Senior Preceptor in Romance Languages and Literatures  
**María Luisa Parra,** PhD, Senior Preceptor in Romance Languages and Literatures

8 credits  
UN limited enrollment.

This eight-week intensive advanced Spanish language and culture course focuses on the cultural and literary history of public art and social engagement in Mexico City. We explore the history and richness of the city’s art culture and the generating of new artistic interventions in the public sphere. Students advance their language skills in Spanish by reading, writing, and analyzing literary, political, and journalistic texts, as well as by creating their own artwork. Class discussions and guest lectures focus on the social, cultural, political, and economic impact of the arts and architecture, as well as on historical debates within Mexican artistic circles: the use of the Pre-Columbian past, coloniality, race and *mestizaje*, gender politics, and state modernization and the current form of Mexican capitalism. Students actively participate in artistic, social, and cultural practices and projects being developed in Mexico City, Puebla, and Oaxaca through weekly visits and excursions to cultural, social, and artistic venues.

**Prerequisite:** Harvard students must have completed SPAN 50 or have permission from Drs. Gutiérrez or Parra. Other students must have completed two years of college-level Spanish.

[Info and Apply: Harvard Summer School](https://summer.harvard.edu/study-abroad/mexico/#about-the-program)