History 144 - American Intellectual and Cultural History

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University of California-Irvine

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144A Early American Cultural and Intellectual History (4). Examination of ideas and culture during the early American period, with emphasis on the relationship of ideas to their social, political contexts. From contact to Puritanism to the Revolutionary era, with attention to constructions of class, race, gender. 144B Nineteenth-Century American Cultural and Intellectual History (4). Topics include religious revivals; antislavery thought; theories of the body; Transcendentalism; feminism and suffrage; the meanings of the Civil War; corporatism; realism; forms of racism and nativism. 144C Twentieth-Century American Cultural and Intellectual History (4). Topics include modernism and anti-modernism; Pragmatism; the Harlem Renaissance; theories of sexuality; mass culture and consumer culture; the rise of social science; Marxism; McCarthyism; the civil rights movement; the New Left; feminism, postmodernism. 144F Utopian Experiments in American History (4). Focus on the cooperative dimension of the American experience; the large number of intentional experiments in community living and alternative lifestyles in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Examination of both the ideological foundations of communitarianism and specific historical case studies. Formerly History 142B. 144G Topics in American Cultural and Intellectual History (4). May be repeated for credit as topics vary.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.uci.edu/

Phone Number:

(949) 824-5011

Regional Accreditation:

Western Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Quarter

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