HIST070 - COLONIAL LATIN AMERICA

Status
C
Activity
LEC
Title (text only)
HIST070 - COLONIAL LATIN AMERICA
Term
2010C
Subject area
HIST
Section number only
401
Section ID
HIST070401
Meeting times
MW 0330PM-0500PM
Meeting location
ARTS, RSRCH & CULTR - 3601 LO CREST
Instructors
WALKER, TAMARA J.
Description
This course provides an introduction to the broad litwerature on Latin America's rich colonial history. We will begin by tracing some of the early originas of - and points of contact between - the Indian, Iberian, and African men and women who formed the basis of colonial society. As the course progresses, we will explore the variety of ways in which colonial subjects lived, worked, ate, worshipped, and socialized. Lectures and reading assignments will draw upon a variety of sources, including court cases, artistic renderings, city maps and street plans, travel accounts of visits to the regions, and the material, cultural, and intellectual products made possible by the wealth and dynamism of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The course will conclude with an analysis of the Age of Revolutions, a period of dramatic upheaval that remains at the center of lively scholarly debates. By the end of the semester, students will be able to engage the key questions driving these debates, the most important of which, perhaps, is: what is Latin America's colonial legacy?
Course number only
070
Cross listings
AFRC070401LALS070401
Use local description
No
LPS Course
false