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Child= Jack Child, "Latin America; History, Art, Literature" (available in separate English and Spanish editions). Note that that you can go directly to these text chapters by clicking in the cells below.

Burns= E. Bradford Burns, "Latin America: A Concise Interpretive History" (6th edition, 1994).

Traba= Marta Traba, "Art of Latin America, 1900-1980", 1994

McNees= Pat McNees, ed, Contemporary Latin American Short Stories (2nd edition, 1996). Note: the same stories are also in the first editions, 1974.

Date

Child

Burns Traba McNees/Other
1: Th 21 Jan

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- - Course intro
2: M 25 Jan

1,2

Ch 1 I  
3: Th 28 Jan

1,2

  Computer orientation.
4: M 1 Feb

3

Ch 1 I Optional video: "Mayas" (VIC 27). Go to the Library's Media Resource Center on your own.
5: Th 4 Feb

4

Ch 1 I Optional video: "Incas" (VIC 124). Go to the Library's Media Resource Center on your own.
6: M 8 Feb

5

Ch 1 II  
7: Th 11 Feb

6

Ch 1 II  
8: M 15 Feb

7

Ch 2 II Geography computer exercise due. Do't forget to write the paragraph as described on your answer sheet.
9: Th 18 Feb

8

Ch 2 II  
10: M 22 Feb

9

Ch 2 II  
11: Th 25 Feb

10

Ch 3 III  
12: M 1 Mar

11

Ch 4 III Museum reaction paper due.
13: Th 4 Mar

12

Ch 4 III  
14: M 8 Mar

13

Ch 4 III  
15: Th 11 Mar

1 to 13

    MID-TERM EXAM; Review all
16: M 22 Mar

14

Ch 5 IV Optional video: "The Yankee Years" (VIC 417, part 1). Go to the Library's Media Resource Center on your own.
17: Th 25 Mar

15

Ch 5 IV  
18: M 29 Mar

16

Ch 6 IV  
19: Th 1 Apr

17

Ch 6 IV  

20: M 5 Apr English

20: M 5 Apr Spanish

18 English

 

18 Spanish

Ch 7 IV Optional video: "Art and Revolution in Mexico"(VHS 740). Go to the Library's Media Resource Center on your own.
21: Th 8 Apr

19

Ch 7 IV McNees stories: pp. 60-76; 78-87
22: M 12 Apr

20

Ch 8 V McNees stories: pp. 164-169; 322-326. Optional video: "Castro" (VIC 417, part 2). Go to the Library's Media Resource Center on your own.
23: Th 15 Apr

21

Ch 8 V McNees stories: pp. 164-169; 322-326. PAINTER REPORT DUE
24: M 19 Apr

22

Ch 9 V McNees stories: pp. 88-93; 154-158
25: Th 22 Apr

23

Ch 9 V McNees stories: pp. 184-194; 224-232;
26: M 26 Apr

23

Ch 10 V McNees stories: pp. 184-194; 224-232
27: Th 29 Apr

24

Ch 10 I McNees stories: pp. 270-182; 328-346;
28: M 3 May

24

355-62 I McNees stories: pp. 270-182; 328-346. Optional video: "Antarctia: Frozen Ambitions" (VIC 1204). Go to the Library's Media Resource Center on your own.
29: M 10 May

14 to 24

    FINAL EXAM, 2:10 to 4:40 PM
 Also: optional Final Exam Part II at "Casa Mayo y Perrichola", details TBA.