LIT 117 - Mexican Literature in Translation

    Recent Professors
    jasrodriguez@riohondo.edu, zjensen@riohondo.edu, algarcia@riohondo.edu
    Recent Semesters
    Summer 2026, Spring 2024, Spring 2022, Spring 2021
    Class Size
    22–24 students
    Credits
    3
    Prerequisite
    ENGL C1000
    Summer 2026 Sections
    View Summer 2026 sections of LIT 117
    Transfers To
    UC and CSUCal-GETC Area 3B · IGETC Area 3B · CSU GE Area C2
    Description
    This course explores a range of Mexican literature in English translation, with a focus on major literary influences and achievements from the pre-Hispanic era to the twentieth century. Course reading and writing assignments explore indigenous literatures and myths, chronicles of the Spanish conquest, literature of the colonial period, high culture and folklore of the eighteenth century, political and modernist literature of the nineteenth century, and poetry and prose of the twentieth century. This course is designed for students interested in exploring various genres of literature and/or interested in learning more about Mexican cultural expression, and students majoring in Chicano Studies.
    Usually Held
    Mon 2:20pm–5:30pm, Mon 7:00pm–10:10pm, Tue Wed Thu 9:00am–11:05am