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modernization and social mobilization based on analysis of primary sources such as cinema, music, literature, art, and historical documents along with secondary sources will occur.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.