STUDY GUIDE FOR FINAL EXAM LATI 50 Introduction
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STUDY GUIDE FOR FINAL EXAM LATI 50 Introduction to Latin America
TIME AND PLACE • Thursday, March 22 • CSB 001 • 3: 00 -5: 59 p. m. • • Closed-book exam No cell phones, I-pods, or anything else Bring blue books and pens/pencils Write legibly!
MATERIALS • Lectures (all) • Readings – Modern Latin America, entire – MLA Website Primary Documents 3, 6, 14 -15 and Basic Data and Current Issues 2. B – García Márquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold • Videos – “Garden of the Forking Paths” – “Fire in the Mind” – “Mirrors of the Heart” – “In Women’s Hands” – “Builders of Images” (part) – “The Americans: Latin and Caribbean Presence in U. S. ”
DISCUSSION ITEMS (10/ 12 = 30 points) Write short (two- or three-sentence) statements identifying and explaining the significance of such items as: Mariano Azuela Washington Consensus Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo Platt Amendment Concertación Pink tide Dom Pedro II Liberation theology ALBA Lula
SHORT ESSAYS (2/ 3 or 4 @ 20 points = 40 points) • Compare the relationships between race and social structure in Bolivia and either Brazil or the Dominican Republic. • Describe and evaluate changes in the political status of women in Latin America. • What factors explain the decline of revolutionary fervor in Latin America? • Compare the political, economic, and cultural resources of Latino communities in Florida, New York, and California.
LONG ESSAY (1/2 or 3 = 30 points) • It has often been said that Latin American culture cannot support political democracy. Evaluate this statement on the basis of evidence presented in this course. • Describe the evolution of key economic policies in Latin America from the late nineteenth century to the present. Are you optimistic about the region’s economic future? • Analyze the role of Catholicism in Latin American society. Has it varied over time and place?