History 115 - History of the Modern Americas
Satisfies: Grossmont, CSU and UC General Education Requirement; also fulfills the American Institutions Requirement.
Sample topics the course covers: This flier has more.
- Colonial Legacies: the Native, European and African formation of the Americas
- The U.S. and Latin America in the modern era
- Emiliano Zapata, Pancho Villa and The Mexican Revolution
- Bananas, Chiquita and Gunboats: the US and Latin America in the Age of Empires and during the Cold War
- Castro, “Che” Guevara and Latin American responses to U.S. hegemony
- Brokers, Bullets and CNN: the Zapatistas Rebel Against NAFTA
- The IMF, the WTO, the Battle of Seattle and the resistance to Globalization
- Latin America and the US in the 21st Century
Offered every semester M,W and T,Th mornings; Online; as well as Summers
