Teaching History of Modern Latin America

Catalog description

This course is a survey of Latin America since independence in the 1820s. Students will connect issues across time and focus on transmitting material to others in the classroom setting. Each student will be required to research historical themes and to develop written and oral presentations that will be presented to undergraduate students as part of their History of Latin America since 1825 course. The main goal of the course is to prepare students to both understand Latin America and to effectively teach it in the classroom. Not open to students who have taken HST 328 or HST 428 .