Encountering Latin America and the Caribbean
This course introduces students to the history and culture of selected nations of Latin America and the Caribbean. Students will study significant ideas and events that have shaped this area. These might include indigenous cultures, colonization, slavery, race relations, independence and revolutionary movements, economic dependency and political instability.
Prerequisite: Completion of HONR 101, HONR D101, HONR 102, and HONR D102. Restricted to students in the Honors Program.
Outcomes: Students will understand the relationships among cultural, economic, political, and social forces, and their impact on human behavior; They will become aware of variations in human values and behavior, ideas of justice, and shared understandings in unfamiliar cultures.
This course introduces students to the history and culture of selected nations of Latin America and the Caribbean. Students will study significant ideas and events that have shaped this area. These might include indigenous cultures, colonization, slavery, race relations, independence and revolutionary movements, economic dependency and political instability.
Prerequisite: Completion of HONR 101, HONR D101, HONR 102, and HONR D102. Restricted to students in the Honors Program.
Outcomes: Students will understand the relationships among cultural, economic, political, and social forces, and their impact on human behavior; They will become aware of variations in human values and behavior, ideas of justice, and shared understandings in unfamiliar cultures.
Prerequisite HONR 101, HONR D101, HONR 102, HONR D102. Restricted to students in the Honors Program
Tier 2 Societal Knowledge
Global Studies
Restricted to Students in the Honors Program.
"What¿s Your Story?: Female Voices from Latin America and the Caribbean": This course explores Latin America and the Caribbean through the lens of contemporary female writers and artists that tell stories about the human condition, cultural norms, and national identity. We will question what it means to connect with people, places, and history, and the impact that storytelling has in affirming or challenging those notions. We will purposefully focus on female voices because they have largely been absent from the Latin American and Caribbean cannon. Studying them will give us an opportunity to consider cultural works, and the realities they portray, from a different vantage point. Our goal is to let these stories carry us into new spaces that allow us to re-imagine Latin America and the Caribbean.
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