HIST239H — Modern Latin American History-Honors
HIST 239H - Modern Latin American History-Honors HIST 239H - Modern Latin American History-Honors (3,0) 3 or permission of instructor. Modern Latin American History Honors surveys Latin American history from the independence movements of the early nineteenth century until the present. Through an examination of both primary and secondary source material, students in this course will explore political, economic, social, and cultural developments in Latin America including class structures, inequality, and uneven economic development, race, indigeneity, gender, and ethnicity, social movements, imperialism, rebellion, and revolution, authoritarianism and democracy, human rights, globalization, migration, and U.S.-Latin American relations. In addition, this honors course will enable students to explore an aspect of Latin American history by conducting a research project and completing a research paper and presentation. Students will emerge from this course with a deeper understanding and appreciation of Latin America’s connection to the world and the major role that Latin Americans have had in shaping human history. Students in this course will be able to better understand the history of the Americas and to think critically about the historical origins of contemporary issues such as social and political movements in Latin America, U.S.-Latin American relations, and Latin American migration. Students will also be able to ask and answer historical questions about Latin American his
Prerequisites: ENGL111, ENGL070