AMER ST 2032 - Critical Moments in the American Past

Institution:

Temple University

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Description:

This course, which will change given the professor’s expertise, is designed as a close, detailed interdisciplinary study of a single crucial moment in United States history. Using novels, films, both feature-length and documentaries, art, theater, life histories, and primary documents, this class will examine how the politics, economy, culture, events and movements of a given historical era, for instance the Great Depression or the day of hope and rage of the 1960s, shaped the day-to-day lives of ordinary people and how these individuals and groups struggled to control and grapple with the changes swirling around them. In addition, this class will explore how these personal dramas were represented in literature, architecture, art, and on the stage and screen. Finally, through letters, oral histories and other accounts, this class will look at memory, and see how people’s views of the past shaped, and are filtered through, the present.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

WWW.TEMPLE.EDU

Phone Number:

(215) 204-7000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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