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HIST245
Survey of Latin American History
HIST245 SP
Crosslistings: LAST245
Photo Caption and Credits
Spring 97 Availability (Last Updated on Sat Mar 8 05:00:06 EST 1997
)
Section Limit Enrollment Available
01 45 38 7
A survey of Latin American history from the preconquest
cultures to the contemporary economic and political crises.
Topics include: colonialism; the conflict between Europeans
and Indians; slavery and abolition; the wars of
independence; neocolonialism; development of social and
cultural pluralism; 20th-century political movements.
MAJOR READINGS
Argentina, Commission on the Disappeared,
NUNCA MAS
Fidel Castro, HISTORY WILL ABSOLVE ME
Paolo Freire, PEDAGOGY OF THE OPPRESSED
Penny Lernoux, CRY OF THE PEOPLE
James Lockhart and Stuart Schwartz, EARLY LATIN
AMERICA
Rigoberta Menchu, I, RIGOBERTA MENCHU
Chico Mendes, FIGHT FOR THE FOREST
Thomas Skidmore and Peter Smith, MODERN LATIN
AMERICA
Stanley Stein and Barbara Stein, THE COLONIAL HERITAGE OF
LATIN AMERICA
Eric Williams, CAPITALISM AND SLAVERY
EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS
Midterm and final exams. Two
5-6 page papers; one additional writing exercise, regular
class attendance; class participation.
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS
No extensions, no
late papers will be accepted. No incompletes. No unexcused
absences.
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.
Reading list subject to change because Latin American texts
go out of print very quickly.
COURSE FORMAT: Lecture
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level: UG Credit: 1.00
Gen Ed Area & Dept: SBS HIST
Prerequisites:
None
- Section 01
- Sanders, D
- Times: .T.T... 8:30AM;
- Grading Mode: Mixed
- Registration Preference (1 high to 6 low, 0=Excluded) Sr: 2, Jr: 1, So: 1, Fr: 4
- Major Preference Given
Last Updated on MAR-10-1997
About the Photo:
A priest's head carved Totonac style, from the Veracruz region
Reference:
Nicholson, Irene. MEXICAN AND CENTRAL
AMERICAN MYTHOLOGY,New York: Peter Bedrick
Books, 1967
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