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History of the American working class throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. The course will examine the experiences of both organized labor and the masses of unorganized workers, and highlight issues of race, class, gender, and ethnicity. Cross-listed as HST 209
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3.00 Credits
A study of the meaning of success as reflected in works ranging from those of Benjamin Franklin and Horatio Alger to the plays of Arthur Miller. Cross-listed as ENL 211
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3.00 Credits
Chronological survey beginning with Gustavus Vassa and Robert Hayden’s “Middle Passage” and continuing through contemporary writers. Toward the end of the course there will be focus on new women writers and major writers through the 1990s. Cross-listed as ENL 214, AAS 214, WMS 214
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3.00 Credits
A study of the relationship between the individual and society through readings in modern literature. Cross-listed as ENL 218
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Designed as an introduction to the work of Karl Marx for those students who do not necessarily have philosophical backgrounds. The thoughts of Marx will be presented in two parts. At first, the more philosophical thought of the young Marx will be examined in its relation to Hegel and his followers up to Marx’s “settling of accounts” with German philosophy. The second part will deal with the more scientific phase of Marx’s thought expressed in ‘Das Capital’. Marx’s own works will form the reading in the course. Cross-listed as PHL 226
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: PSC 101 The complex ethnic structure of the American political landscape. The course examines the role that ethnicity plays in American politics in a comparative examination of the politics of major racial and ethnic minority groups. Cross-listed as AAS 243, PSC 243
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3.00 Credits
A study of Cape Verdeans as an ethnic sub-population in the United States, and as comprising an independent, self-governing nation-state. The historical, political, social, and economic contributions of Americans of Cape Verdean descent in the United States and in Cape Verde are examined. Cross-listed as AAS 303, PSC 373
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: SOC 101, ANT 11, SOC/ANT 113, PSC 101, 102; or permission of instructor Sociological perspectives on the study of power relationships, political communities, political processes, and institutions. The course addresses questions like, Who controls America’s institutions? What are the rights and powers of ordinary citizens? How are decisions made about war and peace? About the distribution of resources? What is the relationship between political, economic, and ideological power? Cross-listed as SOC 305
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3.00 Credits
A study of the politics of civil rights and the various philosophical approaches that have been used to extend such rights to groups that have traditionally had no access to the agenda setting processes within the legislative system. Emphasis is placed on the philosophy of nonviolence and on the political effectiveness of such organizing strategies as marches, sit-ins, and public demonstrations; and how the American experience with civil rights has influenced civil rights movements in other parts of the world. Cross-listed as AAS 306, PSC 306
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3.00 Credits
The experience of American working women - black and white, native and immigrant, organized and unorganized - from the colonial period to the present day. Because work is defined as productive labor, this course will examine women as paid and unpaid workers - in the marketplace as well as in the home. Some of the areas of study will be women on the frontier, women in the mills and factories, labor union women, women in the professions, and the history and politics of housework. Cross-listed as HST 310, WMS 310
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