Students in this course designed web pages on various topics ranging from Historical events to Biographical sketches to Philosophical topics within the context of Latin American Philosophies. 

Weekly students handed in short papers on their topics and then published the pages to the Internet as part of a class study guides. To preview their work, please visit the individual student homepages or visit the listed topics.
 

Cullen Casteel	Alejandro Negrete Hendrie
Elizabeth Copeland	Esperanza Salazar
Stephanie Crocker	Lorraine Salek
Evan deSieyes	Elizabeth Sanders
Matthew Hanft	James Sheller
Natalie Kashi	Marcio Siwi
Michael Landis	Jacob Tabor
Brooke Marcus	Christopher Zink
Elizabeth Miller

Historical Topics

• Anti-Imperialism
• A Brief History of the Aztecs
• The City of Potosí
• The Chinampa System in Tenochtitlan
• Nationalism
• The Mexican Revolution of 1910
• Palmares

• Tupac Amaru
• A briefing on Che Guevara
• Getulio Vargas
• Miguel Hidalgo or Miguel Hidalgo
• General Smedley D. Butler 
• Simon Boliviar

• Myths
• The Philosophy of Latin America

The main objective of this course has been to answer the question: "Is there an authentically Latin American philosophy?"
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

PH203
Topics in Philosophy: Latin American Philosophy

Block 4 - December 2000

Prepared by: Alberto Hernandez-Lemus and Michelle Freddolino (ATS)