SUNY Poly
100 Seymour Rd Utica, NY 13502
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The following is fulfilled by this course:
- World History and Global Awareness
SUNY Poly has listed this a core course in the following categories:
The core course can be applied to following SUNY Transfer Paths:
HIS 240
Latin American Civilizations
A one-semester overview of Latin America, from the first encounters of European, African, and Native American cultures to the diverse and complex societies of the present. Study of the region's indigenous and colonial past will help explain contemporary politics, economics, social relations, and cultural movements. Repercussions of the independence movements and subsequent democracies, monarchies, dictatorships and reform movements will be tracked. Students will evaluate demographic changes, social upheaval and revolution, industrialization and development, environmental degradation, and foreign intervention. Throughout the course, changes and continuities in race, class, gender, and other social roles will be identified and analyzed. Meets new General Education Other World Civilizations requirement.