2014-2015 Academic Catalog 
    
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2014-2015 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

ID 279 - 20th-Century Latin America


This discussion-oriented class is designed to understand and assess current situations and challenges facing the diverse nations of Latin America today via an examination of select issues, events and people of 20th-century Latin America, which have, for better or worse, most shaped this globally important region. Topics include human rights, poverty, corruption, cultural identity, environment and sustainable development, foreign relations, movements for social change, legacies of 20th-century dictators, revolutions and dirty wars, and the debates over free trade vs. fair trade, immigration and the drug war.