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Oct 31, 2025
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Catalog 2024-2025 [ARCHIVED CATALOG] Chemeketa Community College, Salem OR (curriculum@chemeketa.edu)
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HUM 220 Resisting Empire: Latin American Revolutions
Lecture Hours: 3
Credits: 3
Focuses on the culture, ideas, and actions that typify revolutionary movements in Latin America since the dawning of the twentieth century. Examines a Latin American emphasis against the backdrop of empire as manifested in the actions of local elites, first-world countries-especially the United States-and worldwide capitalist structures.
Prerequisite: Placement into WR 115 (or higher), or completion of WR 090 (higher) with a grade of C or better; or consent of instructor.
Student Learning Outcomes:
- Use historical and current background information on the resistance to adopt a perspective that reflects Latin American sentiments.
- Apply critical thinking towards a deeper understanding of their own philosophical perspective on resistance, empire and revolution.
- Reflect a much greater awareness of the events, actors, culture, and geography which have been at the center of Latin American revolutionary systems during the twentieth century.
- Create and assemble material drawn from artistic, literary, visual, and musical sources that relate to expressions of dissent and agreement.
- Discuss with the role of women in Latin American revolutionary situations.
- Analyze religion-based Latin American expressions of relationship to the revolutionary impulse.
- Write and talk about issues of revolution in Latin America.
Statewide General Education Outcomes:
- Interpret and engage in the Arts and Letters, making use of the creative process to enrich the quality of life.
- Critically analyze values and ethics within a range of human experience and expression to engage more fully in local and global issues.
Cultural Literacy Outcomes:
- Identify and analyze complex practices, values, and beliefs and the culturally and historically defined meanings of difference.
Content Outline
- Revolution.
- The philosophical background
- Marx
- Structuralism and Relativity
- Catholicism and other Christian influences
- Women and revolution.
- Oregon vs. south of the Río Grande
- Historical Background, Empire and the Backbone of Resistance
- Indigenous peoples
- The conquest
- Elite rule, repression and resistance
- Rise of the USA and capitalist structures
- Mexican Revolution
- Background and events
- Elements of resistance
- Economics
- Culture and art
- Las soldaderas
- Veracruz, Villa and the USA
- Outcomes 1920-1956, featuring Guatemala 1954
- Cuba
- Background and events
- Capitalism and Marx
- The culture of revolution
- The Spread of Dissent and Counterrevolution
- Central America
- The church
- Monoculture and change
- The Southern cone and the old regime’s response
- Perú, poverty and Sendero Luminoso
- Revolution in the 21st Century
- Colombia
- Chávez, Morales and Fidel
- Salem and the world
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