SOCIOLOGY 3350: MODERN LATIN AMERICAN SOCIETIES
Call #21401         Summer I 2009         Monday and Wednesday 12-2:30 p.m.         Sangren 2210
Instructor: Professor Paul S. Ciccantell
Office: Sangren 2528
Office Phone: 387-3594  
Office Hours: by appointment
Email: paul.ciccantell@wmich.edu
Teaching Assistant: Nicholas Budimir
Office: Sangren
Office Phone: 387-
Email:
Office Hours:

Course Syllabus

"1491" by Charles Mann


LECTURE NOTE OUTLINES:
Natural Characteristics and Pre-Colonial History

European Colonialism

Independence

Politics

Economies

Population and Migration

Indigenous Peoples

Race and Ethnicity

Gender

Religion

International Relations

The Future of Latin America


GROUP PROJECT POWERPOINT PRESENTATIONS
Please let me know if you have any trouble accessing any of these presentations.

Dominican Republic

U.S.-Mexico Border

Dictatorships

Religion in Peru

Venezuela

Cuba

There will be one additional presentation that will be posted, pending resolution of technical difficulties.




OTHER USEFUL COURSE INFORMATION:

Group Research Project Instructions

Midterm Exam Sample Questions and Essays


Final Exam Sample Questions and Essays


KEYS FOR MIDTERM EXAM MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS
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Key Form B

Key Form C



KEYS FOR FINAL EXAM MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS
Key Form A

Key Form B

Key Form C



RELATED LINKS FOR THE COURSE:

GENERAL SOCIOLOGICAL LINKS
 WWW Virtual Library: Sociology
 A Sociological Tour Through Cyberspace
 Sociosite
 

INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS AND AGENCIES
 The United Nations
 United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
 United Nations Development Program
 The World Bank
 The World Trade Organization
 International Monetary Fund
 The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
 The International Labor Organization
 North American Free Trade Agreement Environmental Secretariat
 European Union
 UNICEF

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES
 U.S. Department of Commerce International Trade Administration
 U.S. Energy Information Agency (Dept. of Energy)
 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
 

NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS (NGOs)
 Corporation Watch
 50 Years Is Enough (anti-World Bank site)
 Bank Information Center (information on international development banks)
 Center for Economic and Policy Research
 Development Group for Alternative Policies
 Economic Policy Institute
 Global Exchange
 Global Policy Network
 Global Trade Watch
 Globalization Watch (Mother Jones Magazine)
 Human Rights Watch
 International Forum on Globalization
 Institute for Policy Studies' Global Economy Project
 McDonaldization
 Open World Conference of Workers
 Sweatshop Watch
 Third World Network
 UNITE Stop Sweatshops Campaign
 CEE Bankwatch Network
 Institute for International Economics
 International Investment Promotion Network
 World Economic Forum
 Brookings Institution
 Cold War International History Project
 The Trilateral Commission
 Development Jobs Portal
 World-Systems Network (research on the development of the world economy)
 Penn World Tables (data by country for 1950-1992)
 Focus on the Corporation
 Council on Foreign Relations
 Center for Economic Justice (alternatives to World Bank and other mainstream development organizations)
 Center for Economic Policy Research (alternatives to mainstream development ideas)

Cultural Survival (NGO supporting the rights of indigenous groups around the world)

ENVIRONMENTAL NGOs
 Project Underground (social and environmental impacts of mining)
 Mineral Policy Institute (social and environmental impacts of mining in Asia and Australia)
 International Rivers Network (NGO opposing large dams)
 Climate Action Network
Center for International Environmental Law
 Centre for Science and the Environment
 Earthday Network
 Energia
 Environmental Rights Action
 Friends of the Earth
 Friends of the River Narmada
 Ozone Action
 

NEWS ORGANIZATIONS
 Mother Jones Magazine
 Independent Media Center
 ZNET Magazine
 New York Times
 The Economist Magazine
 Mutinational Monitor
 Wall Street Journal
 Washington Post
 British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
 The Nation
 Environews (environmental news website)
 Monthly Review
 Environmental News Service
 
 

THE AMAZON
 Rainforest Action Network
 Amazonia NGO
 Amazonwatch NGO
 Basic Science and Remote Sensing Initiative (Amazon research at MSU)
 

LATIN AMERICA AND BRAZIL
 Gazeta Mercantil (Brazil's Wall Street Journal)
 Jornal do Brazil (daily newspaper)
 North American Council on Latin America
 Frontera NorteSur (news on U.S.-Mexico border region)
 Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC)