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Fall 2023 | HIST 3401W Section 001: Early Latin America to 1825 (20336)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Meets With:
LAS 3401W Section 001
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Mon,
Wed 09:45AM - 11:00AM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 205
- Enrollment Status:
Open (22 of 23 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Societies of Americas, Spain, and Portugal before contact. Interactions among Native Americans, African slaves, and Europeans, from colonization through independence. Religion, resistance, labor, gender, race. Primary sources, historical scholarship.
- Class Notes:
- 4th credit hour will be online asynchronous: annotating readings, posting to Canvas discussions, and quizzes.
- Class Description:
- In 1519, Spaniard Hernan Cortes entered the dazzling capital city of the Mexica (Aztec) empire; what happened next depends upon whose versions of events you read. European accounts emphasize his daring capture of emperor Moctezuma and his rapid domination of central Mexico by the use of his wits and superior technology. Native accounts reveal that the capture of Moctezuma backfired, leading to a lengthy and heroic defense of the island city. Regardless of the telling, such encounters and struggles set the stage for European rule of the Americas for the next three centuries. This course begins with pre-contact Native American societies, but primarily explores the historical processes of colonialism in Latin America (especially Mexico, Brazil and Peru) between 1492 and 1825. We will study both the economic, religious, and administrative systems put in place by the Europeans, and the varied responses of indigenous peasants, African slaves, racially-mixed town dwellers, and women. We will learn to analyze primary documents from the period (such as the competing accounts of the conquest of Mexico) and read life stories as well as historical narratives. And we will consider how that history has been remembered and commemorated. Class periods will include a mix of lecture, discussion and writing instruction.
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- Anyone who is interested in the subject.
- Learning Objectives:
- Related to the LEs in Historical Perspectives and Global Perspectives and to the Writing Intensive credit.
- Grading:
- 20% Quizzes
20% Participation and Attendance50% Papers/Projects
10% Final essays
- Exam Format:
- 13 online canvas quizzes; 7 highest grades count: T/F, multiple choice, short answer
- Class Format:
- Tues. 9:45 - 11 In person
Thurs. 9:45 - 11 in person
4th credit hour online asynchronous activities (videos, discussion boards)
- Workload:
- 60 Pages Reading Per Week (average, varies by week)
15 Pages Writing Per Term
7 papers/projects
7 Quizzes (7 highest scores of 13 quizzes)
Participation in online discussion boards
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/20336/1239
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 1 June 2021
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