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Dec 07, 2025
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LALS 227 - Colonial Latin America Semester Offered: Spring
1 unit(s)
(Same as HISP 227 ) Studies in Latin American literary and cultural production from the European invasion to the crisis of the colonial system.
Topic for 2025/26b: Natural and Moral History of the Spanish Empire. This course explores the interrelated development of scientific observation, geographic mapping, writerly expression, artistic rendering, and moral legitimization in Spain’s transatlantic and transpacific empire. Readings and class discussions examine the epistemological and political challenges early modern Spanish and Latin American scientists, historians, and commentators encountered in describing, classifying, understanding, and assigning value to what was for them “new” scientific phenomena and civilizations. The course considers such figures as Gonzálo Fernández de Oviedo, José de Acosta, El Inca Garcilaso, José Celestino Mutis, Alexander Von Humboldt, and Alejandro Malaspina, among others. Michael Aronna.
Prerequisite(s): One course above HISP 206 .
Two 75-minute periods.
Course Format: CLS
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