AMS 486 - American Experience since 1865

Institution:

The University of Alabama

Subject:

AMS-American Studies

Description:

3 hours. An exploration of the development of American cultural experience since 1865, focusing on the major material forces and intellectual currents that helped to shape American attitudes, assumptions, institutions, behavior, and values. The course will draw upon insights from many disciplines and will include several kinds of primary cultural evidence as well as recent major synthetic works of cultural scholarship. Topics and reading assignments are chosen to enlarge awareness of the transformation of America to a diverse, metropolitan, industrial society and include the built landscape, changes in the workplace, immigration, changing class and gender relationships, the rise of leisure, and the development and triumph of modern corporate/consumer culture. Offered spring semester.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.ua.edu/

Phone Number:

(205) 348-6010

Regional Accreditation:

Southern Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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