Course Description

This course navigates students through major political, cultural, and economic moments and developments in the region labeled as Latin America. The course begins with the encounter of Europeans, Africans, and Indigenous Americans during the 15th and 16th centuries. The course also takes into account the construction and development of the Spanish and Portuguese colonial society, the course of independence, the creation of the nation-state, the influence of foreign powers and major international wars, and the changing political environment of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries.