Course Details

Country: Costa Rica
Institution: Universidad Veritas
Course Title: Costa Rican Colliquiuim history and culture
Course Number: Hum3513
Course Description: This class will take you through Costa Rican history and its cultural representations. The socio-economic and political features that have shaped and defined the history and development path of Costa Rica will be explored. The major social issues that have emerged to the present day will be uncovered to provide the student with an understanding of how Costa Rica’s present day culture has been shaped. This is a theoretical-practical course that seeks to clarify the following question: How does connecting with the local history and culture as a foreign student allow an introspection towards my own culture? In order to answer this question, the following topics will be studied: history economy government and politics class and community health and social issues education and religion family and leisure arts and culture
Language: English
Approved Equivalent: ANTH 396
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