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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Examines the material culture of Americans' homes from the settlement of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630 to the present. Food customs, gender roles and distinctions, rituals, and the history of the American family are uncovered in the artifacts and architecture of ordinary Americans. Offers the opportunity for students to see-rather than merely look at-their own material surroundings. Uses slides and other visual materials extensively. Offers analysis from several disciplines (social history, archaeology, art history, and architectural history), and how these disciplines can be integrated in the study of American society and customs. The primary evidence used in this course is material: housing, the landscape, and the artifacts of everyday life of Americans of all classes.
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4.00 Credits
Explores the history of Boston from colonial times to the present, with attention to the topographical growth and the ethnic composition of the city. Includes visits to historical sites and museums in the area.
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4.00 Credits
Examines patterns of social, cultural, economic, political, and diplomatic history of the United States to 1877.
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4.00 Credits
Examines patterns of social, cultural, economic, political, and diplomatic history of the United States from 1877 to the present.
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4.00 Credits
Explores the development of American historical writing from the seventeenth century to the present, with attention to changes in the nature of historians, the rise of professionalization, the development of cooperative history, conflict and consensus approaches, and the current emphasis on race, class, and gender.
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4.00 Credits
Examines, in a comparative context, the expansion of public education from the passage of compulsory schooling laws to the establishment of the multiuniversity, the impacts of desegregation, the revival of home schooling, and the problems facing American education today. Gives attention to views that common schooling and land-grant colleges were part of the larger movement to extend democracy. Examines challenges to these propositions.
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4.00 Credits
Provides a history of the major sports and their impact on American life.
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4.00 Credits
Focuses on mass communications in American history, with attention to the roles of books, newspapers, magazines, films, radio, and television.
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4.00 Credits
Examines gender relations in America from the colonial period to the present, with attention to how race, class, ethnicity, and sexuality shaped gender and particularly the experience of women. Looks at how contemporary issues such as pay inequity, the gender gap in political participation, sexual harassment, intersecting gender and racial inequalities, the glass ceiling, and debates over reproductive rights all have profound historical roots. Uses documentary sources, literature, film, and other visual materials to examine topics such as the encounters of Native American women with white settlers, African-American women's experience of slavery, women's participation in revolution and war, the experience of industrialization, women's struggles for civil and political rights, women's private lives, and sexualit
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4.00 Credits
Examines the relationship between Sino-American international relations and changes in American popular perceptions of China as revealed in the media and literature. Focuses on Sino-American relations since the nineteenth century, including the period of the missionaries and opium traders; the era of special privileges; the Open Door policy; the first half of the twentieth century, when China became America's favorite protégé; and the years of strain, warfare, and finally accommodation after the Chinese communists came to power in 1949
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