Dr. Juan C. Santamarina
Office Hours:  T-Th 9:30-10:30am , and by appointment.  HM 443.
santamar@udayton.edu
Office Phone: (937) 229-2834

ANNOUNCEMENTS: FINAL EXAM REVIEW IS CURRENT AND FINAL Document Analysis Worksheet--USE THIS WORKSHEET FOR EACH DOCUMENT DUE ON THURSDAY

READINGS

COURSE DESCRIPTION, REQUIREMENTS, AND GRADING

II.  IMPORTANT DATES

Exam #1 Review
Exam #1	Tues (Week 7)
Term Paper Proposals Due	Tues (Week 8)
Term Papers Draft Due for Peer Review	Thurs (Week 15) Print and bring with you this peer review
Exam #2 Review
Exam #2	Thurs (Week 13)
Term Papers Final Draft Due	Thurs (Week 16) (DECEMBER 10, 2009)
FINAL EXAM:	FINAL EXAM (TUESDAY, DEC. 15, 2009, 2:30-4:20)

III.  WEEKLY SCHEDULE
 

I. ORIGINS OF MEXICO Week 1 (8/24)	TOPIC: Requirements, Introduction What's New in History?
Week 2 (8/31)	READ:  Meyer, Chpts. 1-3 FILM:  The Aztec Empire TOPIC: Mexico before Cortez: The Mature Aztec Empire:  Political Organization Socio-Economic Structure Aztec Culture Aztec Religion and Human Sacrifice
Week 3 (9/7--Monday--Labor Day No Classes)	READ:  Meyer, Chpts. 4-5 1.  Hernan Cortés: from Second Letter to Charles V, 1520 2.  The New Laws of the Indies, 1542 Spain's pro-Indian laws. 3.  Lope de Aguirre: Letter from to King Philip of Spain, 1561 FILM:  Conquistadores Document Analysis Worksheet--USE THIS WORKSHEET FOR EACH DOCUMENT DUE ON THURSDAYS TOPIC: Cortez and Conquest;  FILM: Conquistadors An Old Tale repeated again Conquest as an Intellectual and Psychological Legacy Structure of Colonial Government Las Casas, Destruction of the Indies
Week 4 (9/14)	READ:  Meyer, Chpts. 6-8 1.  Henry C Lea (1829-1909): The Inquisition in 17th-Century Peru: Cases of Portuguese Judaizers 2.  Hubert Howe Bancroft: Burial of an Archbishop-Viceroy in Mexico City, 1612 Document Analysis Worksheet--USE THIS WORKSHEET FOR EACH DOCUMENT DUE ON THURSDAYS "Monty Python's Spanish Inquisition" Mel Brooks Spanish Inquisition (From "History of the World Part 1") TOPIC: The Imperial System Colonial Society The Indian
II. COLONIAL MEXICO Week 5 (9/21)	READ:  Meyer, Chpts. 9-13 1.  Alexander Von Humboldt:  Problems And Progress in Mexico, c. 1800 Document Analysis Worksheet--USE THIS WORKSHEET FOR EACH DOCUMENT DUE ON THURSDAYS TOPIC:  The Colonization of Mexico Bourbon Dynasty The Spanish Enlightenment The Bourbon reforms in Mexico Mexico in the Late 18th Century
Week 6 (9/28)	READ:  Meyer, Chpts. 14-17 1.  Simón de Bolívar:  Message to the Congress of Angostura, 1819 2.  Monroe Doctrine, 1823 Document Analysis Worksheet--USE THIS WORKSHEET FOR EACH DOCUMENT DUE ON THURSDAYS TOPIC: The Early Mexican Republic Dynastic Crises and Revolt The Early trials of Nationhood Iturbide Centralists and Federalists, Conservatives and Liberals THURSDAY:  EXAM 1 REVIEW
Week 7 (10/5)	Tuesday:  EXAM #1 Thurs:  NO CLASS
Week 8 (10/12)	READ:  Meyer, Chpts. 18-21 FILM:  The Mexican War 1.  Declaration of Texan Independence Document Analysis Worksheet--USE THIS WORKSHEET FOR EACH DOCUMENT DUE ON THURSDAYS    TOPIC: Texan Independence/The Mexican War
Week 9 (10/19)	READ:  Meyer, Chpts. 22-25 1.  Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo of 1848 2.  Official US Army History of the Mexican War Document Analysis Worksheet--USE THIS WORKSHEET FOR EACH DOCUMENT DUE ON THURSDAYS TOPIC: Texan Independence/The Mexican War Contd.
III. THE TWENTIETH CENTURY Week 10 (10/26)	READ:  Meyer, Chpts. 26-29 READ:  Rochfort, Desmond. Mexican Muralists: Orozco, Rivera, Siqueiros. NY: Universe, 1993. Mexican Muralists:  Diego Rivera
Week 11 (11/2)	READ:  Meyer, Chpts. 30-35 FILM:  The Mexican Revolution 1. Channing Arnold & Frederick J. Tabor Frost: The Rule of Porfirio Diaz, 1909 2.  George M. McBride: Haciendas from The Land Systems of Mexico, 1923 3.  Francisco Madero: The Plan of San Luis Potosi, November 20, 1910 Document Analysis Worksheet--USE THIS WORKSHEET FOR EACH DOCUMENT DUE ON THURSDAYS TOPIC: The Mexican Revolution:  The Military Phase Pretense Without Progress Francisco Madero and the Failure of Moderate Reform Chaos and Neo-conservatism:  Carranza and Calles The Constitution of 1917
Week 12 (11/9)	READ:  Meyer, Chpts. 36-39) 1.  Inter-American Committee: Problems of Latin American Economies, 1965 Document Analysis Worksheet--USE THIS WORKSHEET FOR EACH DOCUMENT DUE ON THURSDAYS TOPIC: The Mexican Revolution:  The Constructive Phase Progress and Pretense Lazaro Cardenas, 1934-1980
Week 13 (11/16)	TUESDAY:  EXAM 1 REVIEW THURSDAY:  EXAM 1
Week 14 (11/23)  THURSDAY IS THANKSGIVING--NO CLASSES	READ:  TBD TOPIC: Mexican History in Film:  "APOCALYPTO"
IV. CONCLUSION Week 15 (11/30) Week 16 (12/7) Thu, Dec 8 Feast of the Immaculate Conception—Christmas on Campus—no classes LAST DAY OF CLASSES IS 12/10/09	READ:  Meyer, Chpts. 40-45. The Life of a Maquiladora Worker      Document Analysis Worksheet--USE THIS WORKSHEET FOR EACH DOCUMENT DUE ON THURSDAYS TUESDAY DEC. 1:  NAFTA AND THE NEW ECONOMIC FRONTIER TOPIC: Mexico Since 1980:  The Revolution Matures The Industrial Boom The Industrial State Consolidated Demographic Boom and Migration to Urban Areas  Petroleum rescues the PRI, 1976-1982