Course Catalog - 2013-2014

     

HIST 508 - MODERN LATIN AMERICA

Long Title: MODERN LATIN AMERICA
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 4
Description: Graduate reading seminar on Latin America from the early nineteenth century to present through reading classic and current most relevant scholarship. Political events will provide the periodic framework of the course but it will delve on major economic, social and cultural developments to understand the complex social formations that comprise contemporary Latin American societies.