HIST2327
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Mexican American History I (to the United States-Mexico War Era)
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Course Description
(3-3-0) This course is taken for academic credit. Students will earn an A, B, C, D, F, or W. A survey of the economic, social, political, intellectual, and cultural history of Mexican Americans/Chicanx. Periods include early indigenous societies, conflict and conquest, early European colonization and empires, New Spain, early revolutionary period, Mexican independence and nation building, United States expansion to the United States-Mexico War Era. Themes to be addressed are mestizaje and racial formation in the early empire, rise and fall of native and African slavery, relationship to early global economies, development of New Spain's/Mexico's northern frontier, gender and power, missions, resistance and rebellion, emergence of Mexican identities, California mission secularization, Texas independence, United States' wars with Mexico, and the making of borders and borderlands.
Academic Level
Undergraduate Credit
CIP Code
54.0102 - American History (US)
Course Type (Attributes)
General Academic (ACGM) (ACGM)
Locations
Online (06), Athens (01), Palestine Satellite (02), Terrell Satellite (03)
This is a Coursedog only field and is not integrated with the SIS.
Objective
Create an argument through the use of historical evidence.
Objective
Analyze and interpret primary and secondary evidence.
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Describe the transformation of indigenous societies from 1400-1700.
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Explain the causes and effects of European conquest and colonization on the Americas.
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Evaluate the relative impact of mestizaje, slavery, global economics, and frontier settlement on the creation of Mexican identity.
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Connect independence movements, imperial conflict, class formation, and regional resistance to the making of independent Mexico.
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Discuss the transformation of communities in the borderlands as a result of Manifest Destiny and the United States-Mexico War.
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Compare and contrast the borderland regions of California, New Mexico and Texas from 1800-1850.