HIST 2327 - Mexican-American History I

CIP Code 5401025425

3 Course Credits

A survey of the economic, social, political, intellectual, and cultural history of Mexican Americans/Chicanx. Periods include early indigenous societies, conflict and conquest, early European colonization and empires, New Spain, early revolutionary period, Mexican independence and nation building, United States expansion to the United States-Mexico War Era. Themes to be addressed are mestizaje and racial formation in the early empire, rise and fall of native and African slavery, relationship to early global economies, development of New Spain’s/Mexico’s northern frontier, gender and power, missions, resistance and rebellion, emergence of Mexican identities, California mission secularization, Texas independence, United States’ wars with Mexico, and the making of borders and borderlands. (May be applied to U.S. History requirement.)

3 Lecture Hours Per Week
48 Contact Hours

Instructional Methods: LEC

Registration Restrictions: Appropriate score on TSI/TSIA2 ELAR or equivalent.

Texas High Education Coordinating Board Lower Division Academic Course Guide Manual (ACGM) course