HIST 105

Fall 2025 All Classes

All Classes

Credit: 3 hours.

[IAI Code: H2903N] Survey of Latin American history from the discovery of America to 1824.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria in Fall 2022 for:

Humanities – Hist & Phil
Cultural Studies - Non-West
HIST 105 class schedule data for fall 2025
CRN Type Section Time Day Location Instructor Section Details
64521
Online
A
9:30AM -10:50AM
TR
n.a.
Brosseder, C
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
08/25/25-12/10/25
Degree Notes:
Humanities - Hist & Phil, and Cultural Studies - Non-West course.
Section Info:
This class Latin American History to Independence surveys the history of the colonial period (from 1492 to 1825) of what is now called Latin America. We will discuss pre-Columbian America, Europe in the fifteenth century, the encounter between the Old and the New Worlds, its consequences, the working of colonial institutions, the place of slavery, the role of race and ethnicity in the construction of colonial power, women in a multiethnic patriarchal colonial society, the role of the Church, and the coming of independence. Without doubt, the history of the colonial period in Latin America is one of the most interesting examples of how different cultures met in the early modern world. To understand this process this survey class fucuses on three main questions: first, what constituted the pre-Columbian cultural heritage? Second, how did the encounter between European, African, and indigenous cultures evolve? Third, how did colonialism shape indigenous, Mestizo, Creole, and Afro-American identities.
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