Note: A placement exam will be required when you arrive on site.

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This course is designed for students who have completed or tested out of a minimum of four semesters (or six quarters) of college-level Spanish. However, students must take a placement exam to determine the course level into which they will be able to enroll.

HISTORY OF MEXICO

ADVANCED

OBJECTIVES:
Course is designed for students that already have an acceptable linguistic competence in spoken and written Spanish.

The course offers a socio-historical analysis of Mexico beginning with the Mexican Revolution and continuing on to the positive and negative effects on the nation’s formation.

Understand and analyze:
• Concept of national crisis and national society
• Changes in the decade of the 80’s and their effect on the 90’s
• Presidency of Vicente Fox

Cover historical development of Mexico during different stages with emphasis on the most outstanding events of Mexico's historical transformation

*Course policies, organization, bibliography, and exam dates to be given in class

CONTENT:

1. Mexican Revolution
1.1 Madero, Zapata, and Ayala
1.2 International intervention
1.3 Carranza and Sonoran clan
1.4 Constitution of 1917 or suspended revolution
1.5 Historical significance of Zapata’s death

2. Post-revolutionary Mexico
2.1 The men of the Sonoran clan
2.2 Obregón and PNR
2.3 Calles and constitutionalism
2.4 Christian war
2.5 Maximato

3. Birth of a Modern Mexico
3.1 Cárdenas and PRM
3.2 Nationalism
3.3 Corporate state
3.4 Development model for the state and its impacts
3.5 Socialist education

4. The New Nation. “The era of civility”
4.1 PRI
4.2 Mistakes in the decade of the 60’s
4.3 October 2 and its generational influence
4.4 “Guerra Sucia” of the 70’s
4.5 1975 - First major economic crisis

5. The “lost decade” of the 80’s
5.1 Echeverría to Portillo
5.2 Economic models and their failures
5.3 Increase of foreign debt
5.4 Nationalization of national bank and its impact
5.5 Uncontrolled devaluation of the peso

6. State and Crisis
6.1 Earthquake of 1985
6.2 PRI - Internal crisis of 1988
6.3 Neo-PANismo
6.4 Cárdenas and Muñoz Ledo, el AFDN
6.5 Electoral fraud of ‘88

7. Salinas Era
7.1 Salinas Project
7.2 PANismo and Fox
7.3 Free Trade Agreement
7.4 Drug trafficking and politics
7.5 EZLN
7.6 Zedillo and the crisis of December 1995
7.7 2000 Elections and those involved
7.8 Fox