Guided Pathways: Latin America
Understand the historical roots of contemporary issues like immigration, the drug
trade, corruption, foreign debt, and trade negotiations. Discover the rich history
of Latin American poets, neighborhood activists, medical history, and indigenous society
and culture.
The degree emphasis in Latin American history is built around two core courses (1300
and 1310) that take an interdisciplinary approach and fulfill degree requirements
for Latin American Studies. Students may focus on specific countries of emphasis
and gain a broad knowledge of trends in the region. The Latin American history emphasis
offers course sections in target languages (Spanish, Portuguese), thus allowing students
to access non-English historical documents and materials. The degree emphasis prepares
students in the ways that history in general does, with the additional benefit of
cross cultural study and consideration of colonization and post-colonialism, indigeneity,
state formation, culture, and social movements. The degree emphasis is necessarily
comparative in nature.
The curriculum prepares students for graduate study or for Latin America-related careers in business, communications, government, bilingual/bicultural education, secondary teaching, community organizing, and international work.
(HIST 1300) Latin American Civilization to the 1820s |