Fall 2019  |  CHIC 3423 Section 001: Central American Revolutions (34375)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Meets With:
HIST 3423 Section 001
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/03/2019 - 12/11/2019
Mon, Wed 08:15AM - 09:30AM
UMTC, East Bank
Carlson School of Management L-114
Enrollment Status:
Open (4 of 10 seats filled)
Course Catalog Description:
Social, political, and economic issues that have shaped Central American history for nearly two centuries. Colonial histories, capitalist development, ethnic/racial conflict, foreign intervention, Catholic Church, civil war throughout region. Readings/discussions cover events in Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama.
Class Description:
Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, civil war and political violence swept the Central American isthmus. In an attempt to understand both the domestic and international factors that contributed to this upheaval, this course will examine the social, political, and economic issues that have shaped Central American history for nearly two centuries. We will focus primarily on the influences of colonial histories, capitalist development, ethnic and racial conflict, foreign intervention, the Catholic Church, and civil war throughout the region. We will emphasize both nation-state formation from the perspective of six independent countries (El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, Costa Rica, and Nicaragua), and broader region-wide experiences around export capitalism, military interventions, armed uprisings, popular protest, emigration, and ethnic conflict. The course is organized around these two major approaches. We will begin with a comparative region-wide perspective as, "The Isthmus of Central America: Colonialism, Revolution, and the Struggle for Autonomy." We will then focus on the six independent nations in the course section called, "The Nations of Central America: Independence, Nationalism, and the Struggle for Citizenship."
Grading:
25% Midterm Exam
25% Final Exam
25% Reports/Papers
25% Class Participation
Exam Format:
essay exams
Class Format:
70% Lecture
30% Discussion
Workload:
100 Pages Reading Per Week
10 Pages Writing Per Term
2 Exam(s)
1 Paper(s)
Other Workload: 4 short (one page) reaction papers
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/34375/1199
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
21 May 2007

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