GEOG 165
Racial and Ethnic Geographies of Latin America
This course offers a geographic survey of race and ethnicity across Latin America, including Californiam, Mesoamerica, Brazil, the Andes, and the Caribbean. The course draws from academic scholarship, creative non-fiction, podcasts, and film in order to weave together critical voices from across the region that speak to racial and ethnic identities. Students will come away with a stronger knowledge of the region’s history and geography, as well as key debates on political, economic and cultural topics concerning Latin American peoples and intellectual movements.
Topics
- Through course materials, lectures and class activities, students will develop a historical and geographical understanding of racial and ethnic formation in Latin America Through course materials, lectures and activities, students will acquire theoretical foundations for understanding historical and contemporary cultural geography as well as debates over race, ethnicity and social justice in the Western Hemisphere Through the course assignments, students will develop and demonstrate analytical engagement with course topics and practice written argumentation and comparative analysis Through the final course assignment, students will further develop their theoretical and conceptual engagement with the course topics while applying independent research methods and a choice of multiple genres to execute a written and/or visual project
Official catalogue course objectives and student learning outcomes
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027