Mexican Postcards: An Introduction to Mexico’s Histories, Cultures, and Traditions

This introductory course allows students to explore and become acquainted with Mexico's ethnic, cultural, and linguistic richness and historical and social complexity.

In doing so, students learn about Mexico's many contributions to the world as a crossroads between continents, oceans, historical times, world events, and global forces.

The course includes pre-work, co-construction of knowledge through in-class discussion, a final creative project, and a visit to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where students explore Mexican art of the periods of their choice in the museum's American wing.