HIST 121: Early America: Three Worlds Meet

(1 Unit)
Early colonial America, with an emphasis on the Caribbean, Mexico, the Southwest, British North America and New France from 1492 to the 1770s. Readings and films focus on the Americas as a meeting place for indigenous peoples, Europeans and Africans. Students will analyze the varied realities of conquest, native population decline and conversion, the brutalities of slavery, and the evolution of ideas about race in the New World. Not offered every year. Kanter.