Faculty: Michael Lansing, Assistant Professor of History

Health care, human rights, free trade, natural resource use, sustainable local economies, and political reform all stand as issues facing Nicaraguans. Through conversations with Nicaraguan politicians, scholars, activists, workers, and peasants—coupled with the close study of women’s oral histories—students will explore the powerful role women played in Nicaragua’s recent past and how it relates to their experiences today. The course will also examine how we, as citizens of the United States, affect life in Nicaragua and what our relationship with this country has to do with our own vocations. This class fulfills the Humanites LAF requirement as well as the Augsburg Experience requirement.

For more information or an application contact: abroad@augsburg.edu