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3 hours. Examines certain specific issues and problems that occurred with American culture from about 1500 to 1865. The period begins with conceiving new worlds, in which European, African, and Native American populations engaged and influenced one another in profound and sometimes unexpected ways. Through primary sources, students will also explore such topics as the emergence of colonial societies; the creation of a revolution; 19th-century manners, communities, and institutions; and the cultural politics behind slavery and the Civil War. Offered fall semester.
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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.
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3 hours. In-depth study of a particular period or era in American historical experience. Recent examples include the Ragtime Era, the Jazz Age, the Great Depression, the Season of 1954-55, the '60s, Contemporary America, the Romantic Revolutionaries (1905-14), the Postwar Era, American Avant Garde, the South and '30s Expression, the Civil Rights Movement, the American '20s, the '50s, America between the Wars, the Colonial Period, the Aspirin Age, Postmodern America, Contemporary America, and Writing We
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3 hours. Study of special topics within the American cultural experience. Recent examples include American Thought, Sports in American Life, American Perspectives on the Environment, the Civil Rights Movement, the Picture Press, Music and Ethnicity, the Politics of Culture, Regionalism, Homelessness in America, American Autobiography, American Monuments, Southern Popular Culture, Politics and Culture, Historical Memory, America by Design, Women in America, Race in America, 19th-Century Popular Culture, and Disasters in America.
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3 hours. Introduction to the study of man from an anthropological perspective. Contributions to understanding man from the humanities, as well as the biological, social, and historical sciences are considered.
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3 hours. Introduction to the study of contemporary cultures and societies and the linguistic components of human behavior.
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3 hours. This course deals with the major archaeological discoveries made in the past two centuries and their impact on Western thought.
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3 hours. Comprehensive overview of the prehistory, history, and contemporary culture of native North American Indians.
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3 hours. Overview of the methods archaeologists use to study prehistoric cultures and an introduction to the study of human culture over the past two million years.
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3 hours. Introduction to the Native Americans of Alabama and their nearby neighbors. Focuses on describing and explaining lifeways of indigenous peoples using ethnographic, ethnohistoric, and archaeological studies.
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