UTSPT 200 Myths and Realities of the New World Encounter
The term "discovery" is a misnomer when discussing the European invasion and colonization of the Americas during the 15th and 16th centuries. Who discovered whom in 1492 and what were the world-changing consequences brought about by this Encounter? How was our local community as well as the greater global community transformed through the phenomenon known as the Columbian Exchange? These questions and many others will be studied through the primary texts and artifacts of that era, in an attempt to understand the Spanish and Indigenous mindset on the eve of the Encounter, when a New World was born.
Credits
4
Prerequisite
Prerequisite or Concurrent with
AWR 201
Offered
Fall