Dec 26, 2024  
2024-2025 University Bulletin 
    
2024-2025 University Bulletin
Add to My Bulletin (opens a new window)

BWS 217 - Caribbean History: Columbus to Castro

3 Credit Hours
This course will focus on Caribbean history from 1492 to1963, “Columbus to Castro.” We will emphasize the following historical themes: Columbian “encounter,” European conquest and colonization, slavery and resistance, social and cultural transformation. Focusing on the anglophone and francophone Caribbean, Afro-Atlantic connections via the civil rights movement in the United States and the nationalist and independence struggles in Africa and the Caribbean will be discussed. Ultimately, we will investigate Caribbean contributions to Atlantic cultural expression and identity, nation building, modernity, and globalization.

This course will satisfy the core area requirement in social justice and sustainability.

This course will satisfy the core requirement in multicultural studies.



Add to My Bulletin (opens a new window)