PSCH 345 Roots of Modern Latin American Thought: Identity, Culture, Utopia and Revolution (Honors)

The Latin American essay constitutes a unique and rich intellectual tradition that has confronted issues of race and identity, cultural expression and ideological commitment, utopian political projects and revolutionary upheavals with originality and aesthetic flair that is unmatched. This course will follow its development through the 19^th and 20^th centuries as a means of understanding the complexity of contemporary Latin American society and culture, and in doing so will witness from a unique vantage point the evolution and transformation of a region of the world that was the first to liberate itself from European colonialism, and that continues to recreate itself in a struggle to bring forth a unique modern civilization from the remains of conquest, genocide, revolution and globalization.

Credits

4

Distribution

(H) (IG) (NW) (SS) (W)