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Apr 06, 2026
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HIST 391 - Latin America: Conquest to Revolution
Units: 4 ; Breadth Area: GE-UD-3; Social Justice
Latin American history from early Indigenous, European, and African encounters to independence, exploring colonial empires, slavery, cultural exchange, resistance, and political, social, and environmental forces shaping the Age of Revolution.
Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-UD-3 - Upper Division Arts or Humanities, Overlay - Social Justice
Prerequisites: Completion of GE Areas A1, A2, A3 and B4 with grade C- (CR) or better.
Strongly Recommended Preparation: Upper division status (greater than 60 earned semester units) and completion of lower division Area C requirements.
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:
- Describe major social, political, economic, cultural, and environmental developments in Latin America from early contact through independence;
- explain how local events were connected to transatlantic and global processes such as migration, trade, and warfare;
- evaluate the structures and consequences of colonialism, including Indigenous and African resistance and survival;
- analyze how diverse groups navigated, challenged, and reshaped colonial hierarchies of race, class, and power in daily life;
- assess how geography, environment, imperial rivalries, and transatlantic ideas shaped revolutionary thought and movements in Latin America;
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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