HIST 2250 - [The U.S.-Mexico Border: History, Culture, Representation]

(crosslisted)
(also AMST 2250, LATA 2250, LSP 2250) (CA-AS)

Spring. 4 credits.

Next offered 2014-2015.

M. C. Garcia.

A writing-intensive, interdisciplinary sophomore seminar on the United States-Mexico border. The study of borders, and specifically of the United States-Mexico border, requires us to cross the disciplinary and methodological borders of academe itself. The proliferation of provocative writings on the border in recent years bears this assumption out: in no other field of study has the literature been so remarkably interdisciplinary; so methodologically eclectic; nor so theoretically provocative. This seminar intends to tap that literature to help students analyze and understand the histories, cultures and representations of the border that are so important to contemporary self-fashioning and policy-making in the United States and Mexico. Students can expect to write several papers of varying lengths that will develop their skills in historical research and textual criticism.