Course Notes: Satisfies: Grossmont, CSU and UC General Education Requirement; also fulfills the American Institutions Requirement. Course Syllabus: Just a few of the topics the course covers: • Colonial Legacies: the Native, European and African formation of the Americas • The Age of Revolutions, Independence and the Establishment of New Nations • The U.S. And Latin America in the modern era (19th to 21st Centuries) • Oil, Copper and Bullets: The U.S. And Mexico during the Mexican Revolution • Bananas and Gunboats: the US and Latin America during the Age of Empire • Guerrillas, “Che” Guevara and Counterinsurgency: the U.S. And Latin America during the Cold War • Neoliberalism, NAFTA and Narcos: the U.S. And Latin America in the 21st Century Offered every semester M,W 9:30 and 11am and T,Th 11am. About Me I'm a Professor of History at Grossmont College and I absolutely love my job.