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Raritan Valley Community College is
offering a 3-credit course which includes classroom presentations followed
by an 11-day trip to explore the 16th century collision between the Spanish
and Aztec Worlds. The collision will be explored through the conquistador,
Cortes and the Aztec chief, Montezuma. The program will be led by Professors
Ellen McArdle and Stephen Kaufman. Participants may earn credit in either
anthropology or humanities or may participate on a noncredit basis. Sites
visited include Veracruz, Xalapa, Cholula, Puebla and Mexico City. Tours
of the major museums and archeological sites in the area are also part
of the program. These include El Tajín, Cholula, Teotihuacán, Tula, the
Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlán and the museums in Xalapa and Mexico City.
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Course
begins March 20, 2001
Class
meets on consecutive Tuesdays
7 - 9 p.m. in Room S341 |
Head of the monumental stone
relief of the goddess HeadCoyolxauhqui found at the foot of the Great Temple
stairway in 1978. The discovery of this relief renewed interest in
the remains of the Aztec sacred center.
from The Cities of Ancient Mexico: Reconstructing a Lost World,
Jeremy A. Sabloff, Thames and Hudson, Inc., ©1989 Jeremy A. Sabloff, p.122
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