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2025 Spring > UGRD > LATAM > LATAM 256L

Skyscrapers and Shantytowns: Latin America since 1800

Course #: LATAM 256L

Description:
This class attempts a wider reckoning of the last two centuries in our "Latin" hemisphere, broadening and contextualizing core topics such as slavery and revolution, contraband and informality, inequality and exclusion, economize booms and busts, environmental and technological change, gender and demographic change, migration and mass culture. In addition to these core interpenetrating themes, the class also addresses how history is produced, consumed, and transformed.

Section Class Number Schedule/Time Instructor Location
01 10460 MWF
9:00 - 9:50 am
Johnson,Benjamin McCormack M01-0409
Session: Regular
Class Dates: 01/27/2025 - 05/14/2025
Capacity: 15
Enrolled: 3
Status: Open
Credits: 3/3
Class Notes:
Pre Requisites:
Course Attributes: International