HON 300 / HIST 315 Topics: Harvesting History – Coffee, Sugar and Bananas in Costa Rica
This interdisciplinary course uses three Costa Rica economic activities designed to generate foreign income: sugar, coffee, and banana production, as local agricultural activities, and as elements of ecotourism to examine how internal and external historical and social factors have shaped Costa Rican society. As we explore Costa Rica from a science, food, and culture perspective,…