Hum 2461: Humanities of Latin America

DAY TOPIC / LECTURE NOTES / LINKS

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Week 1b: Introduction to Latin American humanities via images; Read Popol Vuh
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Mayan humanities continued; Discuss Popol Vuh in class.
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Week 2: Pre-Aztec cultures and humanities
A. Study online notes on Pre-Aztecs ( Pre-Aztecs and Aztec Index)
B. Homework #1 due
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Aztec cultures and humanities

A. 2461 online materials (Aztec Index)
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Week 3: Aztec cultures and humanities
A. 2461 online materials (Aztec Index)
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Incan civilization and humanities
A. 2461 online materials (Inca Index)
B. Homework #2 due
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Week 4: Spain and Europe in the 15th and 16th centuries; Encounters and conquests: Columbus, Cartier, Cortés, Pizarro, and Las Casas. (1)
A. 2461 online materials (Spain Index)
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Encounters and conquests: Cortés, Pizarro, and Las Casas and others. (2)
A. 2461 online materials (Index for 16th-century figures)
B. Homework #3 due
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Week 5: Colonial Latin America: Renaissance humanities
A. 2461 online materials (Index for 16th-century figures)
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Religion and conquistadors: Las Casas, Juan Diego, Bernal Díaz, and Pizarro.
A. 2461 online materials (Index for 16th-century figures)
B. Homework #4 due
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Week 6: Timucuan encounters with Spanish and French in Florida: Narváez, Cabeza de Vaca, Ponce de León, Menéndez Avilés. (First half)
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Timucuan encounters with Spanish and French in Florida: Narváez, Cabeza de Vaca, Ponce de León, Menéndez Avilés. (Second half); start colonial Latin America: 1600-1810; Baroque humanities.
A. 2461 online materials (Baroque Index)
B. Colonial Latin America lecture
C. Homework #5 due (Florida and Latin American humanities)
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Week 7: Midterm Examination
Cumulative for first half of semester: 50% objective; 50% subjective including image identifications
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Introduction to Baroque art and culture of Latin America
A. 2461 online materials: (Baroque and Neoclassical Index)
B. The music of Ignacio de Jerusalem
C. Read Sor Juana's Sonnet #145
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Week 8: Baroque art and culture of Latin America: Brazil and Fr. Antônio Vieyra (Jesuit theologian) and Aleijadinho (Brazilian sculptor)
A. 2461 online materials (Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz)
B. Study (self-study) all Florida materials in the (see Florida Index) (for Homework #6)
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Baroque art and culture of Latin America: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Sonnet #145 and The Answer / La respuesta a Sor Filotea de la Cruz

A. 2461 online materials (Brazil Index)
B. B. 2461 online materials (Aleijadinho Index)
C. Read Sor Juana's Sonnet #145
D. Homework #6 due (see Florida Index)
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Week 9: Finish Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz; begin Independence movements 1810-1898; 19th century and Romanticism

A. 2461 online materials: (Baroque and Neoclassical Index) and
B. Sor Juana in 6 links on Index (Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz), and
C. (19th Century Index and Modernism Index)

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Independence movements 1810-1898; 19th century and Romanticism

A. 2461 online materials (19th Century Index and (Modernism Index)

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Week 10: Latin American modernismo: Martí, Darío, Brazilian modernistas and others (19th - 20th centuries); Twentieth century (2)
A. 2461 online materials (19th Century Index and (Modernism Index)
B. Homework due (Homework #7).
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Latin American Modernism: Martí, Darío, and others (19th - 20th centuries); Twentieth century (2)
A. 2461 online materials (Modernism Index) and (20th Century Index)
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Week 11: World Humanities Expo Week; 20th century (3) The Mexican Revolution, Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, and Mexican Muralists
A. 2461 online materials (Diego Rivera)
B. 2461 online materials (Frida Kahlo)
C. (No Homework due).
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Lecture and activities on Brazil (Dr. Zacarias)
A. 2461 online materials (Brazil Index)
B. Homework due (Homework #8).
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Week 12: Lecture and activities on Brazil (Dr. Zacarias)
A. 2461 online materials (Brazil Index)
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Lecture and activities on Brazil; the Brazilian dictatorship (Dr. Zacarias)
A. 2461 online materials (Brazil Index)
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Week 13: The Mexican Revolution, Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, and Mexican Muralists

A. 2461 online materials (Brazil Index)
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Chile; discussion on Pablo Neruda and The Heights of Machu Picchu (poetry)
A. 2461 online materials (Machu Picchu)
B. 2461 online materials (Neruda)
C. 2461 online materials (Alturas de Machu Picchu)
C. Homework due (Homework #9).
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Week 14: Chile; discussion on Pablo Neruda and The Heights of Machu Picchu (poetry)
A. 2461 online materials (Machu Picchu)
B. 2461 online materials (Neruda)
C. 2461 online materials (Alturas de Machu Picchu)
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Week 15: Cuba; Cuban Revolution; late twentieth century and early twenty-first century Latin American humanities
A. 2461 online materials (20th Century Index)
B. Homework #10 due.
Finals Week
Final Examination
Cumulative: 50% objective; 50% subjective including image identifications