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3.00 Credits
Through this Public History graduate course, we will use period films and television to explore the Civil Rights Movement and its effect on the course of events in United States history as well as its influence on aspects of American culture. We will conduct classes through a combination of lectures, film screenings, and discussions, as well as with individual and group projects. Offered concurrently with AMH 4644 graduate students will be assigned additional work.
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3.00 Credits
Seminar explores the major historiographical trends in Colonial American history (1585-1776). The course is more thematic than comprehensive and stresses breadth rather than depth.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the causes, course and consequences of the revolution. We consider two dimensions of the revolution-as a war of independence and a social upheaval within the colonies. Topics include the commercial and political strands of empire; the nature of creole identity, culture and society; the imperial crises and opening of the war; the role of various fighting forces through the Peace of Paris; and the subsequent struggles over the character of new state and national governments.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the major issues, events, and figures that defined the early American republic, the formative period of American history from the War of 1812 to the Civil War. All aspects of the early republic will be covered -- social, cultural, economic, political, constitutional, diplomatic, military, and biographical.
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3.00 Credits
Survey of major American literature from colonial times to the Civil War. Open to all students.
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3.00 Credits
Survey of major American literature from the Civil War to the present. Open to all students.
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3.00 Credits
From the days of Columbus, who came to the New World seeking fame and gold, to the era of Sex and the City, America has seen its share of sex scandals, political corruption, and war. What this suggests is that there have always been two different "Americas": the one of our dreams and the one that forever disappoints us. This course explores these two Americas through literary study.
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3.00 Credits
This is a discussion and collaborative group work course in which literary texts from various genres including slave narratives, dramas, short stories, novels, poetry, and the nonfiction essay will be used to reveal how complicit the factors of race, gender, sexuality, nationality, class, and the "divided self" are in the African-American experience. Attendance and participation in the interactive classroom discussions and in in-class and out-of-class group work are crucial to a student's success in the class.
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3.00 Credits
Poetry, drama, and prose of black women writers in America. Emphasis on works from the Harlem Renaissance to the present.
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3.00 Credits
Thematic approaches to the New World and early American literature, from the time of the Spanish conquest through the American Revolution and the early Republic. Topics vary according to faculty expertise and research interests.
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