Course Title
Cuban Histories
Course Description
This course will broadly focus on the intersection of social, political, economic, and cultural developments in the making of modern Cuba. While much of the course will focus on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, we will briefly examine the colonial period to provide historical context. A significant part of the course will also examine major historical moments that will situate the 1959 Cuban R/revolution in proper historical context and the ways different people envisioned their revolution. The R/revolution reshaped the island, the lives of its people and its institutions in fundamental ways. It also had a significant impact in regional and global contexts. While the course will try to follow a chronological order, it will also interrogate the conventional and official narratives of the region and present a range of actors and their contributions in thematic ways. Within broader historical moments, we will explore the range of processes and experiences that Cuban people shaped and were shaped by. 4 SH. CC: Diversity Intensive, Historical Perspectives.
Course Types
Historical Perspectives (HISTR), Standard (STAND), Diversity Intensive (INDIV)
Semester Hours
4