Subject code
HIS
Course Number
221
Course Title
Mexican American History and Culture
General Education Category
Social and Behavioral Sciences, Institutions of the Americas
Semester Offered
Fall
Prerequisite
Activity
No
Course Fee(s)
No
Description
The Mexican-American culture, from a historical, anthropological, and sociological point of view with emphasis upon contemporary conditions and problems is presented. The course surveys Mexican-American people from their origins in Pre-Columbian Mexico to the present in the southwestern United States. It includes settlement patterns, society, and political economy of the Spanish Empire and Mexico in El Norte since the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.