Let the World Change you...And you Can Change the World.

The purpose of this course is to introduce students to major forces and events that have shaped current day Latin America and the Caribbean.  As such, it covers an enormous breadth of time and space--too enormous to cover without focusing on a handful of significant themes.  Using representative countries from the region (North, Central, Caribbean, and South America), we will explore topics like nationhood and nationalism; dictatorship, democracy and revolution; capitalism and underdevelopment; the struggle of oligarchs, industrialists, peasants, workers, intellectuals, foreign interests, the military, the urban poor- in essence, men and women.