Spring 2024 History UN2661 section 001

LATIN AMERICAN CIVILIZATION II

LATIN AMERICN CIVILIZATIO

Call Number 11504
Day & Time
Location
MW 10:10am-11:25am
501 Northwest Corner Building
Points 4
Grading Mode Standard
Approvals Required None
Instructor Alfonso Salgado
Type LECTURE
Method of Instruction In-Person
Course Description

This course explores major themes in Latin American history from the independence period (ca 1810) to the present. We will hone in on Latin Americas “chronic” problems of social inequality, political polarization, authoritarianism, incomplete democratization, and troubled memory politics. The course covers economic, social, and cultural histories, and gives special weight to the transnational aspects of Latin American ideological struggles – from its dependency on Western capital to its ideological “inner Cold War” – and the way they influenced the subaltern strata of society. The section discussions are a crucial component of the course, and will focus on assigned historiography. While the lecture centers on constructing a cogent meta-narrative for Latin America’s modern era, in the section we will explore not only the historical “facts,” but will instead ask: how do historians know what they know about the past? What sources and analytic methods do they use to write history? And what ethical dilemmas do they confront when narrating politically-sensitive topics? 

Web Site Vergil
Department History
Enrollment 85 students (105 max) as of 9:06PM Friday, October 4, 2024
Subject History
Number UN2661
Section 001
Division Interfaculty
Note Discussion HIST UN2665 REQUIRED
Section key 20241HIST2661W001