Format: In-person lecture course 3 x 50 minutes MWF

COURSE SYNOPSIS:

This course will cover the historical experiences of women and gendered others in Latin America and the Caribbean from pre-contact times to the present. As a large course, there will be lectures but there will also be films, interactive exercises and discussions, and some music. Topics covered include pre-contact indigenous cultures (Aztec, Inca, Maya, Guaraní), swashbuckling female conquistadores, rebellious nuns and the Inquisition, folk healers, pirates, family life, enslaved Black women’s lives, revolutionaries, right-wing women, intellectuals, artists, and modern day migrants and human rights. 

COURSE OUTCOMES:

1. Improved skills: research, persuasive writing, critical analysis and oral communication.
2. Acquired substantive content knowledge of women and historical events in the region.
3. Ability to discuss and analyze complex issues related to race, gender, class, power.

ALLOCATION OF GRADES:

Article summary - 10%
Midterm exam - 30%
Document Analysis - 30%
Final exam - 30 %
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Total - 100%

REQUIRED READING

• Catalina de Erauso, Lieutenant Nun
• Ochoa & S. Guengerich, Cacicas: The Indigenous Women Leaders of Spanish America
• P. Murray, Women and Gender in Modern Latin America: Historical Sources and Interpretations
• Wendy Vogt, Lives in Transit: Violence & Intimacy on Migrant Journey

*Please note: This is a preliminary web course description only. The department reserves the right to change without notice any information in this description. The final, binding course outline will be distributed in the first class of the semester.

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