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3.00 Credits
This course covers the origins of the American constitutional tradition, the manifold heritage of the American Revolution, Jeffersonian republicanism and federal judicial power, nationalism and the centralization of the Marshall court, the reaction on the Taney court, slavery and sectionalism, the Civil War, Reconstruction, the Second American Constitution, and the Gilded Age turn in American law.(Prerequisite: HI 30) Three credits.
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This course examines the latter portion of the Fuller court, Imperialism and the Constitution, governmental efforts to restore economic competition, the police power, economic reform, progressivism, the tradition of national supremacy, new turns in civil liberties, the New Deal and the old Supreme Court, civil rights and the incorporation theory of the 14th amendment, and new roads back to legal conservatism.(Prerequisite: HI 30) Three credits.
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Participants study feminism based on the premise that it is a multi-faceted struggle for women's autonomy and self-determination.The course focuses largely on the United States, birthplace of the first organized women's movement; however, it periodically expands its view beyond the United States for purposes of comparison.Students analyze the development of the feminist movement as well as feminist theory during the 19th and 20th centuries and explore the discourse on gender mediated by race and class, and its impact on women's lives.Using primary and secondary sources, students work toward a historical definition of feminism.Formerly listed as HI 1 43.This course meets the U.S. diversity requirement . (Prerequisite: HI 30) Three credits
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This course surveys American women's history from the colonial era to the present, exploring the impact as well as the interdependence of gender, race, and class on experience.Although the term social history describes the course approach, it uses biography to illuminate key issues and enrich student perspectives.Through careful examination of primary and secondary sources, the course pursues two themes: the interplay of gender constructs through the myths and realities of women's lives, and the crucial role women played in transforming public and private space.The course views women as agents whose testimony and actions are vital to understanding our history.Formerly listed as HI 14 2.This course meets the U.S. diversity requirement. (Prerequisite: HI 30) Three credits.
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Students explore the foundation of U.S.foreign relations from independence in 1776 to the outbreak of World War I in 1914.This course looks closely at the interrelationship between ideals and reality as the new United States struggled to protect and confirm its independence, establish a constitutional basis for foreign policy, and expand its borders and influence across the North American continent and around the world.The course discusses such questions as manifest destiny, the Monroe Doctrine, the Mexican War, the displacement of Native Americans, southern expansionism and the Civil War, the Spanish American War, and the open door policy as the United States became a world power on the eve of World War I.(Prerequisite: HI 30) Three credits.
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This course examines the development, crises, and turning points in U.S.relations with the world from Woodrow Wilson to the present, exploring issues such as U.S.reactions to the Russian Revolution, World War I, isolationism and the coming of World War II, the Grand Alliance, the origins and development of the Cold War, the nuclear arms race, the Vietnam War, the United States and Latin America, U.S./Soviet relations, the Middle East and Persian Gulf crises, and the post-Cold-War world.(Prerequisite: HI 30) Three credits.
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This study of the foundations of American civilization compares the colonial systems of Spain, France, and England.The course stresses the development of the British colonies in New England, the mid-Atlantic, and the South, with special emphasis on such topics as Puritanism, the Great Awakening, and the Enlightenment in America.The course also explores Native American/white relations and the development of white attitudes towards people of African American descent.(Prerequisite: HI 30) Three credits.
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Through a study of America's wars from the 17th century to Vietnam, this course examines the role of the military in a democratic society and its effects on our nation's political, economic, social, cultural, and environmental institutions.Students analyze the changing nature of warfare through strategy and tactics, logistics, technology and weaponry and investigate geopolitics, the military-industrial complex, wars of national liberation, and counterinsurgency.Formerly HI 354.(Prerequisite: HI 30) Three credits.
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This course investigates the origins of World War II from the failures of the World War I peace settlements, the League of Nations, and collective security to the eruption of war in Europe and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.The course examines important diplomacy of the wartime alliance; the major theaters of war; the military campaigns of Europe, Russia, North Africa and the Mediterranean, Asia, and the Pacific; use of the atomic bomb; and failure to make a satisfactory peace.Formerly HI 355.(Prerequisite: HI 30) Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the history of working people's lives and social movements in the U.S.from the pre-industrial era, through the Industrial Revolution, to today's "post-industrial" society.This is not an Industrial Relations course.We look at three broad areas of historical change: 1) work itself; 2) the making and re-making of the American working class; and 3) the definitions of social justice that working people constructed for themselves and that informed their social movements.Our goal is to understand how and why the "Labor Question" was at the heart of American reform movements in the 19th and 20th centuries.Special attention will be given to the experiences of women, African Americans, and other racial and ethnic g roups.This course meets the U.S. diversity requirem ent. (Prerequisite: HI 30).Three cred
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