All Senior students will take either one year-long senior elective, or two semester-long senior electives.
This course explores Latino American experiences from pre-Columbian civilizations up to the advent of the Chicano Movement. It is an interdisciplinary course that investigates the diversity of Latino culture as it is conditioned by the intersections of race, class, gender, sexuality, regional variations and power. Areas of focus in the course will include a study of the Aztec, Maya, Inca and Taino civilizations, European colonial period from 1500-1800’s, the independence movements of the 19th century and the Latino experience in the United States up to the 1960’s.