The course will examine the political, economic, and social aspects of Jamaica in the context of the Caribbean region and the rest of the world. Such aspects as the history, language, race, social class, ethnicity, and the impact of the tourist industry on the Island's economy will be explored. Various tensions, dilemmas, and theoretical and policy issues related to the position of Third World countries in the modern world. Questions of urbanization, industrialization, modernization, westernization and economic resource and balance are discussed. Various theories of development and underdevelopment are critically examined.
Special attention is paid to the relationship between Latin America and the United States.
The nature of racial relations and inequalities in American society. The historical origins and relationship of racial and ethnic stratification to western capitalist development will be examined. The ethnic composition of contemporary American society, impact of legal and recently illegal immigration patterns, dynamics of modern structures and institutions, the civil rights movement, interethnic conflict and attitudes, multiculturalism, and the origins and status of affirmative action will be critically analyzed in the context of national and global social change. Mass Media and Society 3W See Communication 330 . The racial, social, and cultural history of Africa in ancient and modern times.