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Academic Year 2002/2003
The Americas: The North-South Divide
SOC 266 SP
This course will analyze several critical issues that confronted Latin America and the Caribbean in the last decade of the 20th century. Beginning with an evaluation of the global economic and political restructuring of
the post-Cold War new world order, the course will consider the changes in U.S. foreign policy toward the Caribbean and Latin America and their implications for economic development and social change in the region.
MAJOR READINGS
Emilio Betances, STATE AND SOCIETY IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
Susan Eckstein, BACK FROM THE FUTURE: CUBA UNDER CASTRO
Sandor Halebsky and Richard L. Harris, eds., CAPITAL, POWER, AND INEQUALITY IN LATIN
AMERICAN
Thomas Klak, ed., GLOBALIZATION
AND NEOLIBERALISM: THE CARIBBEAN CONTEXT
Polly Pattullo, LAST RESORTS: THE COST OF TOURISM IN THE CARIBBEAN
Menno Vellinza, ed., THE CHANGING ROLE OF THE STATE IN LATIN AMERICA
Peter Schwab, CUBA: CONFRONTING
THE U.S. EMBARGO
William Robinson,
PROMOTING POLYARCHY: GLOBALIZATION, US INTERVENTION, AND HEGEMONY
EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS
Three take-home essays of 7-10 pages each OR one take-home essay (7-10 pages) and a research paper of 15-20 pages.
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS
LAST/AMST majors who do not have SOC151 will be able to add the course during registration after submitting the Permission of Instructor form to the Registrar's Office. Eighteen of the 30 spaces in class will be
reserved for Sociology majors.
Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed
Drop/Add form to the Registrar's
Office.
COURSE FORMAT:
Lecture
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level:
UGRD
Credit:
1
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS SOC
Grading Mode:
Student Option
Prerequisites:
SOC151
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Last Updated on MAR-18-2003
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