Superior

Prior to enrolling in courses at this language level, students must have completed or tested out of a minimum of 2 upper-division college-level Spanish courses at their home university in the U.S.

Human Resources and Settlement in Latin America
60 hours of instruction

This class will look at:
1. The population of Pre-columbian America: it's distribution, resources and exploitation of the environment.
2. The effects of colonization: mestizos and the exploitation of the environment. The migratory waves.
3. The demographic rise. Birth and death rate. Regional contrasts.
4. Distribution of the population. Internal migrations. Urban and rural populations.
5. The indigenous minorities: ethnic and socioeconomic problems.
6. Structural and economic characteristics of the modern Latin American population.