Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: INTER-AMERICAN RELATIONS ***** This seminar explores the long and contentious relationships between the United States and the Latin American nations. Focus will be placed on events from the late 19th and 20th centuries: analyzing the Spanish-American war, upheavel in Central America in the 1920s, the place of Cuba within the growing informal U.S. empire, trade relations with the South American nations, the impact of the Cold War on the hemisphere, the role of the CIA in destabilizing and overthrowing popularly elected governments, and other topics as seen through the lenses of political, economic, social,and cultural history. Limited enrollment.