SPAN 418Modernity and the Colonial Encounter in Latin America

In the course catalog from Winter 2020 to Spring 2021; Open Data has no classes for it in that time.

This course explores the divergent consequences of the colonial "encounter" for the Indigenous cultures and for the Western world. Students analyze colonial cultural productions in order to understand the role of the colonial experience in the economic development of Western Europe, as well as the underdevelopment of Latin America. [Note: Taught in English.]