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2026-2027 Catalog with Addendum 
    
2026-2027 Catalog with Addendum
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HIST 2327 - Mexican American History I (to the United States-Mexico War Era)


Semester Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0

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.)

TSI: TSI Reading Complete or TSIA2 ELA Complete Required for Enrollment
Course Designation: Academic Transfer



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