HIST 2327 - Mexican-American History I (3 Credit Hours)

Campus Location: BHC, EFC, ECC, MVC, NLC, RLC

A survey of the economic, social, political, intellectual, and cultural history of Mexican Americans/Chicanx. Periods include early indigenous societies, conflict and conquest, early European colonization and empires, New Spain, early revolutionary period, Mexican independence and nation building, United States expansion to the United States-Mexico War Era. Themes to be addressed are mestizaje and racial formation in the early empire, rise and fall of native and African slavery, relationship to early global economies, development of New Spain’s/Mexico’s northern frontier, gender and power, missions, resistance and rebellion, emergence of Mexican identities, California mission secularization, Texas independence, United States’ wars with Mexico, and the making of borders and borderlands. (May be applied to U.S. History requirement.)

Prerequisites: Required: College level ready in Reading.
Background Search Required: No

Course Hour Configuration
(3 Lec.)

Acad

This is a Dallas College Core Curriculum course.
Coordinating Board Academic Approval Number 5401025425
This is a Texas Common Course Number.