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HIST 442 New World Societies Units: 3.00
An exploration of how New World societies were born out of the contact between Europe, Africa, and the Americas that followed Columbus' landing in 1492. Topics will include contact, colonization, slavery, trade, race, culture and Creolization.
Learning Hours: 144 (36 Seminar, 108 Private Study)
Requirements: Prerequisite Registration in a HIST Major or Joint Honours Plan and a minimum grade of C+ in 6.0 units from HIST 300-330.
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Recognize and remember key events in colonial Andean history. Students will demonstrate in discussion and written work their understanding of different peoples and cultures in past environments and of how those cultures have changed over time.
- Analyze, appraise, and evaluate secondary and primary sources in seminar discussions.
- Present historical analysis and arguments in a clear written and oral form, including the ability to construct an argument by marshaling evidence in an appropriate and logical fashion.
- Write a historiography paper that asks a significant historical question, answers it with a clear thesis and a logical argument, supports it with secondary sources. Students will develop historiographical literacy by identifying and describing the contours and stakes of conversations among historians within the field.
- Develop an understanding of Indigenous cultures of the Andes.