Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: COLONIAL SPANISH AMERICA

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Survey of Latin American History, from 1492 to the 1820's, including the European background and the major New World indigenous civilizations. The course will examine the pre-Columbian societies, the impact of conquest and colonization, colonial political economy, slave systems and indigenous peasantries and the collapse of Iberian colonialism.