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My I.S. has now gone fully digital. After talking with my two advisers about the direction my career and interests are headed, we have decided to tweak the concept of my project. Instead of writing a traditional […]

The Kendall-Rives Latin American Research Grant for Sophomores and Juniors makes approximately $2,000 available each year to one or more Wooster sophomores or juniors to support a research project on some aspect […]

If you find yourself studying abroad in Tuscany in the near future, be sure to wander through the renovated (and newly named) Museo Galileo, the museum of science in Florence, Italy, where you can check out […]

We’ve all heard a lot in the news about the construction of a wall along the U.S.’s border with Mexico.  But what are the implications for migrants to the United States?  800 Mile Wall examines the stories of t […]

I also wanted to share this clip from a film on Louis XIV by Roberto Rossellini, the great Italian director. In his youth, the monarchy was beset by challenges — from provincial nobles, from the urban law […]

The kinds of resources available on the web — some scholarly, some entertaining, some put together by academics, some by amateurs — is overwhelming. I’ll try to point out a few interesting sites as we go […]

Saturday, September 18th, Proyecto Latino and the Office of Multi-ethnic Student Affairs (OMSA) are co-sponsoring a trip to the Great Mohican Pow-Wow at Mohican State Park.  Please sign up at Lowry Front Desk no […]

I have already had several meetings with both of my advisors.  Now, I am really trying to focus on nailing down the scope and conception of my IS. As I noted in my first post, for my Senior IS, I am studying […]

You can’t understand the 16th c. and the Protestant Reformation without understanding a thing or two about John Calvin (1509-1564). Born in France, trained as a lawyer, rooted in European humanism, Calvin made a […]

Looking for a  chance to speak Spanish with College of Wooster faculty and students?  Come to “La mesa española”  for lunch at Lowry’s small dinning room (250/251) every Tuesday at 12.00-13.00 pm.  Any person who […]

La Hora de Café is every Thursday from 8:30-9:30 pm in the Hispanic Suite (Suite G), in Luce Hall. We chat for an hour while we have coffee, tea and cookies. Sometimes we have special food! We also play Spanish […]

A few generations of scholars have now demonstrated just how loose the relationship between history and history on film usually is. Grand historical dramas are meant, first of all, to entertain. But a good […]

Should students study Western Civ as an introduction to the modern world? Or would they do better with World History? It’s been a topic of much debate. I tried to give you a bit of the history of the idea of “ […]

Howdy, Jacob Dinkelaker here, and this is my new blog- Historic Preservation @ Wooster. My Senior Independent Study project at the College of Wooster is on historic preservation at the college. Expect to find […]

The Brazil Initiation Scholarship (BIS) is a key component of BRASA’s agenda to expand Brazilian Studies in the United States. BRASA invites applications from graduate and undergraduate students for a one-time […]

Welcome to the Western Civ blog, a place to share links, comments on the topics to come, reading questions, announcements, and random observations. If you have an idea for something we should include here, just […]

Extruding another meter of mud for analysis of environmental change.

Christopher Culbertson (Cultural Area Studies: Latin American History) has always had an intensely personal interest in Chilean culture and history.  Christopher was born in Santiago to a Mapuche woman, but has […]

Are you curious about the new Latin American Studies Minor?  Find details, including course requirements, at the new LAS home page.

Welcome to the home for Latin American Studies at the College of Wooster.  Here you will find information about campus events, student achievements, off-campus study opportunities, and course information about […]