This course is a survey of Mexican History from the Aztecs to the present. Emphases include Mexican culture and its various elements, as well as Mexico’s relations with the United States.

The course explores the influences that have affected life in the Southwestern United States (Aztlan); the role of the Mexican American in this region; and the contributions, problems, and growing self-consciousness of the Mexican American (Chicano Latino) a minority group in American life and history. A course goal is a better understanding and appreciation by all students of the history and cultural contributions of the Chicano Latino people. The focus of the course is from the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo (1848) to the present.