CLS 150 - Latin American History and Culture

AA Approved

STANDARD CREDIT TYPE
3 credit(s)

Explore Latin America from a cultural perspective focusing on food, gender, race, and class to understand the experiences that have shaped the region. Emphasis on identity, revolutions, nation-state formation, modernization and social mobilization based on analysis of primary sources such as cinema, music, literature, art, and historical documents along with secondary sources will occur. An interdisciplinary study of Latin America offers a unique insight into the lives and thoughts of Latin American peoples, as well the Latino presence in the United States. Course conducted in English.

Course Learning Outcomes

1. The learner should be able to construct a narrative of the influence of the Iberian powers.

2. The learner should be able to delineate between foods from different Latin American cultures.

3. The learner should be able to summarize cultures created from miscegenation.

4. The learner should be able to describe the importance of Latinos in the contemporary United States.