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The student will:
1. Relate lecture materials, audio-visual presentations and textual
readings into a coherent base for time study of (Mexican) history.
2. Recognize that history is not dogma; that it is a process of
interaction between factual soruces and those who interpret them.
3. Demonstrate critical thinking and analytical skills in a series
of objective tests, written examinations and critical papers
that probe Mexico's past.
4. Apply historical learning to in-class discussions of past
controversies and contemporary concerns.
5. Integrate geographic knowledge with historical study--the study
of human interaction transcends both space and time.
6. Identify and employ atypical and non-traditional pedagogy, to
include lecture and textual source materials, such as literature,
fiction, music, audio-visual and/or cinema and sport to study
Mexican society and culture.
7. Examine the contributions of traditional societies, women,
racial and ethnic groupings and other non-traditional groups
so as to formulate a working knowledge of Mexican ideals and
institutions.
8. Question own values and popular myths, as well as conventional
historical analysis.
9. Synthesize the ideas of past and current historians and (from
this synthesis) develop own means of addressing fundamental
historical inquiry as to causation and consequence.
10. Debate the claim that the heritage and institutions of Mexico
are, to some degree, unique and therefore underdeveloped, vis-a-vis
the United States, and explore the causational rationale that
underwrites this alleged uniqueness.
11. Value the awareness that informational and interpretive
knowledge of our neighbors history can be pragmatically
employed in one's everyday life as an individual and as a
citizen.
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1. Pre-Colombian Mexico
A. The First Mexicans
B. Mexico's Golden Age: The Classical Period
C. Times of Trouble: Post-Classic Mexico
D. The Rise of the Barbarians
E. Aztec Society and Culture
2. The Spanish Conquerers
A. The Spanish Invasion
B. The Fall of Tenochititlan
C. The Settlement of New Spain
3. The Colony of New Spain
A. The Imperial System Entrenched
B. The Colonial Economy
C. The Colonial Church
D. Colonial Society: Race and Social Status
E. Culture and Daily Life in New Spain
4. Reform and Reaction: The Move to Independence
A. The Bourbons Restructure New Spain
B. Society and Stress in the Late Colonial Period
C. The Wars for Independence
D. The First Mexican Empire
5. The Trials of Nationhood, 1824-55.
A. The Early Mexican Republic, 1824-33
B. Santa Ana and the Centralized State
C. The Loss of Texas and the War with the United States
D. Society and Culture in the First Half of the Nineteenth
Century
6. Liberals and Conservatives Search for an Operative System
of Government
A. From Ayutla to the Reform
B. The French Intervention
C. The Restored Republic, 1867-76; Nascent Modernization
D. Society and Culture in the Middle of the Nineteenth
Century
7. The Modernization of Mexico, 1876-1910
A. The Making of the Porfiriato
B. The Process of Modernization
C. The Costs of Modernization
D. Society and Culture During the Porfiriato
8. The Revolution: The Military Phase, 1910-20
A. The Liberal Indictment
B. The Overthrow of Diaz
C. Madero and the Failure of Democracy
D. Huerta and the Failure of Dictatorship
E. The Illusionary Quest for a Better Way
F. Society and Culture During the Age of Violence
9. The Revolution: The Constructive Phase, 1920-40
A. Alvaro Obregon Cautiously Implements the Constitution
B. Mexico Under Plutaro Calles
C. Cardenas Carries the Revolution to the Left
D. Society and Culture From Obregon to Cardenas
10. The Revolution Shifts Gears: Mexico Since 1940
A. From Revolution to Evolution
B. The Institutionalized Revolution: 1946-58
C. Adolfo Lopez Mateos: The Lull Before the Storm, 1958-64
D. Mexico Since 1964: The Tensions of Development
E. Society and Culture Since World War II
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