Course Catalog - 2016-2017

     

HIST 508 - MODERN LATIN AMERICA

Long Title: MODERN LATIN AMERICA
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Language of Instruction: Taught in English
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions:
Must be enrolled in one of the following Level(s):
Graduate
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.