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Skyscrapers & Shantytowns: Latin America since 1800

Course Overview

Date / Time Location Credits Minimium Tuition*
1/5/26 - 1/23/26
TBA		 Online 3 $1482 (guest students)
$1671 (current students)
Date
1/5/26 - 1/23/26
Time
TBA
Location
Online
Credits
3
Min. Tuition*
$1482 (guest students)
$1671 (current 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

Winter Session 1, 3 weeks

Class Dates

1/5/2026 - 1/23/2026

Location

Online

Enrolled / Capacity

8 / 35

Status

Open

Instructor

Benjamin Johnson

Tuition*

$1482 (guest students)
$1671 (current 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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