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Dec 04, 2025
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ES 325 - Mexico Before Spain
Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-UD-3; Social Justice
Exploration of Mexican and Central America culture, art and identity from pre-Colombian times to the present. Major topics of discussion are religion, culture, mythology, conquest, colonialism, and indigenous world views. This class will also consider contemporary issues of indigenous peoples in Mexico and Central America.
Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-UD-3 - Upper Division Arts or Humanities, Overlay - Social Justice
Prerequisites: Completion of GE Areas 1A, 1B, 1C and GE-2 with grade C- (CR) or better (GE Areas A1, A2, A3 and B4 for students on the 2024-25 or earlier catalogs).
Strongly Recommended Preparation: Upper division status (greater than 60 earned semester units) and completion of lower division Area 3 requirements (lower division Area C requirements for students on the 2024-25 or earlier catalogs).
Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground, or Hybrid, or Online-Asynchronous.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice).
Course Typically Offered: Variable Intermittently
Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:
- Students will analyze art history and artistic subjects in order to interpret political events.
- Students will be able to compare and contrast regional issues, artistic techniques, and political influence of artists.
- Students will be able to evaluate and analyze the artistic expression of women, indigenous groups, urban poor, and students.
- Students will be able to interpret, evaluate and analyze the legacy of revolutionary are on Latin American cultural development.
GE-UD-3. Upper-division Arts or Humanities Learning Outcomes
- Demonstrate an understanding of and ability to apply principles, methodologies, values systems, and thought processes employed in the arts and humanities.
- Analyze cultural production as an expression of, or reflection upon, what it means to be human.
- Demonstrate how the perspectives of the arts or humanities are used by informed, engaged, and reflective citizens to benefit local and global communities.
Social Justice Overlay Learning Outcomes
- use a disciplinary perspective to analyze issues of social justice and equity;
- describe the challenges to achieving social justice; and
- identify ways in which individuals and/or groups can contribute to social justice within local communities, nations, or the world.
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