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HIS 244
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Title: | History of Latin America: HI1 |
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Long Title: | History of Latin America: GT-HI1 |
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Course Description: | Focuses on the major political, economic, social, and cultural influences that have shaped Latin America from pre-European conquest to the present. Emphasizes the early history of Latin America but connects it to the present. This course focuses on developing, practicing, and strengthening skills historians use while constructing knowledge and studying a diverse set of narratives through perspectives such as gender, class, religion, and ethnicity. This is a statewide Guaranteed Transfer course in the GT-HI1 category.
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Min Credit: | 3 |
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General Notes: | revised competencies entered 11/30/10 LK |
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General Notes: | Update GT/Desc/CLOs/TO effective 202110 |
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REQUIRED COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES:
1. Reference secondary and tertiary sources to construct knowledge and to develop context.
2. De-construct complex and multiple sources of information into basic historical concepts.
3. Recognize the impact of continuity and change of historical perspective in context of time and space in the History of Latin America.
4. Develop narrative structures and arguments based on evidence.
5. Compare and contrast how peoples, groups, cultures, and institutions change over time in the History of Latin America.
6. Analyze events in the History of Latin America in historical context to illustrate how social, cultural, gender, race, religion, nationality, and other identities affect historical perspectives.
7. Use diverse resources for historical research, including libraries, databases, bibliographies, and archives.
8. Identify perspectives in historical interpretation using secondary sources.
9. Identify types of primary sources, their perspective, and purpose of their author.
10. Create substantive writing samples that employ critical analysis of primary and secondary sources with appropriate citations.
11. Construct knowledge by developing historical narratives from primary and secondary sources, maps, and/or artifacts.
REQUIRED TOPICAL OUTLINE:
I. Thinking about history
II. The conquerors and conquered
A. Motivations
B. Influences
III. Attitudes of pre-conquest Europe
A. Political landscape of Spain
B. Political landscape of Europe
IV. The conquest of the Americans
A. The roles of Columbus
B. The roles of Cortes
C. The roles of Montezuma
V. The New World
A. Spaniards in the New World
B. Indigenous peoples in the New World
VI. Perspectives on the New World
A. From the outside, peering in
B. From the inside, reaching out
VII. Change since conquest
VIII. Modern attitudes
A. Coexistence of Europeans and natives
B. Political landscape
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