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Skyscrapers & Shantytowns: Latin America since 1800

Course Overview

Date / Time Location Credits Minimium Tuition*
1/27/25 - 5/14/25
MoWeFr 9a.m. – 9:50a.m.		 McCormack M01-0409 3 $1984 (guest students)
Date
1/27/25 - 5/14/25
Time
MoWeFr 9a.m. – 9:50a.m.
Location
McCormack M01-0409
Credits
3
Min. Tuition*
$1984 (guest students)

Description

This class attempts a wider reckoning of the last two centuries in our "Latin" hemisphere, broadening and contextualizing core topics such as slavery and revolution, contraband and informality, inequality and exclusion, economize booms and busts, environmental and technological change, gender and demographic change, migration and mass culture. In addition to these core interpenetrating themes, the class also addresses how history is produced, consumed, and transformed.

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Course Details

Session

Regular Academic Session

Class Dates

1/27/2025 - 5/14/2025

Location

McCormack M01-0409

Enrolled / Capacity

12 / 35

Status

Open

Instructor

Benjamin Johnson

Tuition*

$1984 (guest students)

* The tuition estimate is based on minimum, single-course cost to a new student who is a Massachusetts resident and not enrolled in a multi-course program. State residency, online/in person modality, and matriculation to a degree program may affect cost.

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