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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
An exploration of the age when America changed from an agrarian culture to an industrialized nation. The course will focus on the nation's reactions to new discoveries in science, technology, and the unsettling consequences of industrialization and urbanization. Fascinating personalities such as Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and William J. Bryan crowd the headlines of that day. 0.000 TO 4.000 Credit Hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Amer and Int'l Studies College History Department Course Attributes: MJ-AMER- Amer History
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An analysis of the function of innovation and technology in the evolution of American business. Progressing from the early commercial ventures of Colonial times to the explosion of heavy industrialization and corporate concentration. The course will analyze the impact of industrialization and its attendant urbanization on U.S. life. 0.000 TO 4.000 Credit Hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Amer and Int'l Studies College History Department Course Attributes: MJ-AMER- Amer History
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This course examines the development of a distinct youth culture in 20th century America. specifically, we will look at how psychological theories, educational practice, family transformation, economic changes, and the growth of a consumer culture combined to create new definitions and interpretations of childhood and youth in modern America. As texts, this course will utilize both historical works and cultural artifacts, such as films, magazines, and television programs, to explore how the social meaning of being young in the United States has changed. 0.000 TO 4.000 Credit Hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Amer and Int'l Studies College History Department Course Attributes: MJ-AMER- Amer History
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Social history examines how ordinary people are affected by, adapt to, and influence the process of historical change. This course examines American society "from the bottom up." Although the larger processes of political and economic change that transformed America into an industrial world power in the 20th century will provide the necessary background, this course concentrates on how ordinary people dealt with these changes. Specifically, the changing nature of work, family, community, gender, and race relations provide the organizational themes for this course. 0.000 TO 4.000 Credit Hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Amer and Int'l Studies College History Department Course Attributes: MJ-AMER- Amer History
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This course will focus on the history of African Americans from pre-colonial Africa to the institution of slavery in the West. The major focus of this course is to survey and analyze the historical and cultural connection between Africans in the Diaspora. Students will review the impact of colonialism, slavery, segregation, and individual and institutional racism as it relates and affects African people throughout the global world. 0.000 TO 4.000 Credit Hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Online Course Amer and Int'l Studies College History Department Course Attributes: MJ-AMER- Amer History, MJ-AMER- African-Amer Studies, GE-INTERCULT NORTH AMERICA
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course will focus on the history of African Americans from the Civil War to present day America. Students will review and assess the chronicle of suffering and cruelties experienced in slavery, segregation, and institutionalized racism, as well as examining the exploits of Black soldiers, slaves in revolt, and the martyrs and heroes of the Civil and Human Rights involvements. 0.000 TO 4.000 Credit Hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Online Course Amer and Int'l Studies College History Department Course Attributes: MJ-AMER- Amer History, MJ-AMER- African-Amer Studies, GE-INTERCULT NORTH AMERICA
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This course introduces students to the history of the second World War. Besides a brief introduction to the origins and effects of the war, this course will cover such topics as Fascist and Nazi movements; the grand strategies of the great powers: Great Britain, the Soviet Union, the United States, Germany, and Japan; the appeasement and the origins of the war; the resistance movements in Europe; China's role in the war; war-time international relations; and the founding of the Yalta System. The Holocaust and genocide, the slaughters in China, and the tragedy of atomic bombing in Japan will also be studied. Documentary films, videotape materials, and guest speakers will be included in the course. 0.000 TO 4.000 Credit Hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Amer and Int'l Studies College History Department
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This course will be a multi-media study of America during the 1950s. We will use as our primary materials music (pop and the birth of rock), TV (Berle and Lucy), movies (Dean and Brando), Literature (Kerouac, Sloan Wilson, and Baldwin), art (Hopper and Pollock), history and other disciplines. The 1950s set the necessary scene for the social revolutions of the 1960s and we will examine the formative stages of that most vibrant period. The course will make extensive use of the Internet. 0.000 TO 4.000 Credit Hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Amer and Int'l Studies College History Department Course Attributes: MJ-AMER- Amer History
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
The role played by women throughout American history is a significant one. This course will approach that role in two ways: 1) what were the women themselves doing -- from community-building to working against slavery or from suffrage to the modern movement -- for complete liberation; and 2) how were political, economic, social, and psychological mechanisms used by society both to obscure these contributions and prevent women from achieving equality with men. 0.000 TO 4.000 Credit Hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Amer and Int'l Studies College History Department Course Attributes: MJ-AMER- Amer History, MJ-AMER-Gender Issues
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An examination of the major periods and patterns of immigration to the United States. Attention will be given to why the immigrants left, what they expected to find here, and how they affected American life and culture. 0.000 TO 4.000 Credit Hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Amer and Int'l Studies College History Department Course Attributes: MJ-AMER- Amer History, MJ-AMER-Multicultural Studies
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