HIST 3810 - Survey of Latin American History

This course will introduce major themes in the history of Latin America from the arrival of the first people in the Americas to the present. It presents a survey of Indigenous civilizations, the European conquest, colonization, African slavery, independence movements, nineteenth-century liberal reforms, and twentieth-century revolutions. Among the issues we will examine are class structures, gender, constructions of race and ethnicity, inequality, leadership styles, ideologies, democracy, revolutions, religion, and popular movements. Rather than analyzing Latin America from a North American point of view, we will scrutinize how Latin Americans view themselves and how their culture, economics, and politics have developed in different directions than the United States and Europe.

Credit(s): 4
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This course fulfills the Intercultural Interconnecting Perspectives of the Dialogues.
This is a writing-enhanced course.
Honors Scholar Course.