History 172—Modern
http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/guy60/history172/
Spring 2005
10 Page Hall
Instructor: Professor Donna Guy
Dulles 210
email: dguy@earthlink.net and guy.60@osu.edu
phone: 292-0324
office hours: Monday and Wednesday 1:30-3; Th 4-5:30
grader: Melissa Guy
This course is designed to introduce students to the people, places, culture
and history of
Cheryl E. Martin and Mark Wasserman Latin America and Its People, Vol II: 1800 to the present.
Each student is required to attend lecture classes. Attendance will be taken each time, and decreasing class attendance may lead to spot quizzes. Students can not expect to get good grades by only attending class or only reading the assignments. Exams will be based on both, and students are expected to participate in discussions of chapters, usually held on Thursdays. An example of an A midterm is midterm.doc
This course is designed to encourage students to take charge of their learning and become actively involved. Since the course will be based on thematic lectures illustrated by case studies in different countries, each student will “adopt” two countries and compile information about its history, economy, social life, art, music, etc., and then pick a topic and write on 15 page paper on both countries or two 8 page papers on a topic in each country. The papers CANNOT duplicate topics discussed in class. For example, if I give a lecture on the Mexican Revolution of 1910, a student cannot write a general history of that topic, but, for example, might write about a revolutionary leader, Porfirio Díaz, or look at the history of corridos, the songs people made up about the revolution. The information can drawn from the internet and books, but NO encyclopedias and NO COPYING from internet sites. Thirty percent of the student’s grade will be based upon this paper or papers, and students will have this new knowledge to illustrate the questions posed on the take home mid term and final.
Examples of possible paper topics: The history of the military in a particular country; feminism in a particular country; the history of the Catholic Church in a particular country; popular music, soccer, dance, or other form of popular culture in a country; the Madres (mothers) movement in Argentina, Chile, Guatemala, etc.; the history of art in a country; a biography of a particular leader, the history of black emancipation, etc. Remember, while you are studying that topic, you are also responsible for familiarizing yourself with the history of your “adopted” countries.
The countries that can be adopted are divided into two groups:
Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Nicaragua,
Haiti, Cuba, El Salvador, Panama, Honduras, the Dominican Republic, Costa Rica
South America
Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Brazil,
Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Chile, Peru, Bolivia
What if you don’t have an immediate topic? Look at the web sites below and surf the web looking for topics that are interesting. Look in your text book for suggestions. Ask the instructor or the teaching assistant for suggestions.
Final grades will be based upon the mid term (25%), the final (35%), country paper(s) (30%) and attendance and class participation (10%).
Links to some internet sources will be found below:
http://www.oberlin.edu/faculty/svolk/latinam.htmprovides web sites on a series of countries.
http://www.history.emory.edu/LatAm/provides
chronologies and other information on
http://www1.lanic.utexas.edu/The
LANIC data base is one of the most comprehensive data bases on all aspects of
Web sites on Venezuelan History http://vlib.iue.it/history/americas/Venezuela/index.html
http://www.acdi-cida.gc.ca/cida_ind.nsf/0/75e2faa4d25034b485256bfb006a8d85?OpenDocument
http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/GlobalGender/latampage.htmlThis
web site has links to other web sites that look at women in
http://historicaltextarchive.com/sections.php?op=listarticles&secid=14has
text articles on various Latin American topics. There is also a special
site for
http://lib.nmsu.edu/subject/bord/laguia/ - pubis
another data base with links to interesting sites about
http://jewishcuba.org/bibjewish.htmlprovides
a bibliography on Jewish history in
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/hlas/mdbquery.htmlThe Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress has been annotating books and articles on Latin American Studies since the 1930s. Now you can get it online.
http://www.uoregon.edu/~caguirre/resources.htmlHere is another website of favorite resources compiled by Prof. Carlos Aguirre.
http://www.iisg.nl/~womhist/vivalink.htmlThis
web site offers links to sites about women’s history in
http://www.georgetown.edu/pdba/Constitutions/constitutions.htmlprovides English translations of all Latin American constitutions
http://www.evitaperon.org/ provides information on the life of Argentine Evita Perón
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook32.htmloffers
an internet sourcebook on 19th century
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook55.htmlprovides
information and documents for 20th century
http://www.unl.edu/LatAmHis/LatAmLinks.htmlThis
web site offers thematic topic web links for
http://w3.unece.org/stat/scriptsdb/variables.aspprovides
statistics on gender in
http://www.popact.org/ tracks reproductive rights and policies
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/ibamuseum/library.htmlFor
those interested in cultural history, this source offers full text articles on
cultural topics in
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/hasrg/latinam/balder.htmlprovides
an extensive bibliography on sex and sexuality topics in
http://www.iisg.nl/~womhist/specialtopics.htmlThis is the virtual library on women’s history topics
http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/has lots of links for most countries.
Notes about writing papers
All papers should be typewritten, double spaced with a 12 point font. Papers on adopted countries cannot exceed 16 pages if it deals with both countries and 8 pages if it deals with one country. Final exams cannot exceed 15 pages, double spaced. Ideally, it should be at least 9 pages long. You can consult with others, but all the ideas should be YOUR OWN. For some suggestions about how to write papers, please consult Guidelines for paper and exam.
Any plagiarized paper, i.e. papers that quote directly from sources without quotation marks or footnotes and/or those that summarize opinions of others without acknowledging the source in a footnote, will be subject to penalties listed in the University Code of Conduct. See this web site for information on plagiarism and writing handouts: http://cstw.osu.edu/especially http://cstw.osu.edu/writing_center/handouts/index.htm. Be forewarned that I will pursue cases of academic misconduct to the appropriate University committee.
All students should pay their fees for this course by the second week of the quarter. Failure to do so may mean being dropped from the course.
Syllabus, 2005
March 29, 31 Introduction; Latin American Independence Link to powerpoint Study Questions
Martin and Wasserman, Chapter 8
Please pick your two countries and begin looking for historical information on the web
April 5-7 Regionalism vs. Nation State; the Caudillos
Martin and Wasserman, Chapter 9 Study Questions
On April 5, please submit, in writing, the names of your adopted countries to the grader
April 12-14 Liberalism and Conservatism, the Mexican and Argentine Cases
Article on Liberals and Conservatives Study Questions
April 19-21 Social Life in Latin America through Art; Race and Gender Relations
Martin and
Take home mid term exam will be handed out on April 21
April
26-28 The rise of oligarchies
and modern economies in late nineteenth-century
Martin
and
May 3-5 U.S. Latin American Relations, Mexican Revolution of 1910
Finish
Topic for your paper(s) due.
May
10-12 Industrialization
before and after the Depression; The
Rise of the Modern Military Martin and
May 17-19 Urbanization in Latin America, Popular Culture
Outline for your paper(s) due
Martin and
May 24-26 Social Revolutions, Conservative Reactions
If you want to show us a first draft of your paper(s), they will be due May 26
Martin and
May 31, June 2-Life in Globalized Latin America: Restoring Democracy, Institutionalizing poverty
Papers due and take home final exam will be handed out on June 2
Martin and
June
10