SPAN 477 - Drug Culture in Latin America (3cr.)

Credit(s): 3

DRUG CULTURE IN LATIN AMERICA
Component: Lecture
Drug production, trafficking, and consumption has had an enormous impact on Latin American Culture, affecting regional politics, everyday life, art and literature. The course examines the highs and lows built on drug commerce, from the psychodelic experiments of the 1960s to Pablo Escobar’s Colombian cocaine empire in the 1980s, to the wave of today’s Mexican drug trade violence.
Allowed Units: 3 Grading Basis: Student Option
PREREQ: SPAN 307 or SPAN 308 or SPAN 325 or SPAN 326.