Catalog 2024-2025

UTSPT 200 Myths and Realities of the New World Encounter

The term "discovery" is a misnomer when discussing the European invasion and colonization of the Americas during the 15th and 16th centuries. Who discovered whom in 1492 and what were the world-changing consequences brought about by this Encounter? How was our local community as well as the greater global community transformed through the phenomenon known as the Columbian Exchange? These questions and many others will be studied through the primary texts and artifacts of that era, in an attempt to understand the Spanish and Indigenous mindset on the eve of the Encounter, when a New World was born. 

 

 

Baccalaureate Experience

(HFA) (IG) (NW) (W)

Spartan Studies

Core Humanities

Credits

4

Prerequisite

Prerequisite or Concurrent with AWR 201

Offered

Fall