POLI 146A/THE U.S. AND LATIN AMERICA

Syllabus

Week 1.  Course Structure and Design

               Speech by Susan Rice

Week 2.    Imperialism in the Americas

                Reactions in Latin America

Week 3.  Cold War in Latin America

              "Missing" (film)

Week 4.  Geoeconomics and the Global War on Terror

NAFTA

 

Terror

 

Week 5. The Rise of the New Left

"South of the Border" (film)

 

Mock Mid-Term Exam

Week 6.  The Political Economy of Drug Trafficking (part A and part B)

               "Maria Full of Grace" (film)

Week 7.  Prompt for Paper

              Study Guide for Late-Term Exam

              Review of Mock Mid-Term exam with TAs [no documents here]