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in American History (3.00 cr.) Prerequisite: HS101, one HS300-level course, and WR100 or WR101. This diverse course examines the relationships between race, place, and the role of memory in Ameri- can history and culture. It starts with an understanding of the discourse and ideology of race; traces this thought from its roots in European expansion; and examines how it has remained central to the founding, settling, and structuring of communities and their economic development. The course emphasizes the relationship between diverse places and America's peoples, and it looks closely at how places have served as powerful sites where collective memory and racial, ethnic, and national identities are produced, constructed, and experienced. Topics include patterns of social exclusion, desegrega- tion, immigration, environmental justice, cultural geog- raphy, heritage tourism, preservation and memoriali- zation, as well as burial rights and property disputes. Counts towards American Studies minor.
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Prerequisite: HS101, one HS300-level course, and WR100 or WR101. Examines popular movements to alter the political, cultural, or social structure of the United States in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Topics include temperance reform, women's rights, Populism, Progressivism, the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s, 1930s radicalism, anticommunism, the Civil Rights Movement, the New Left, and the Counterculture. Counts toward American Studies minor.
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Society: 1780-1830 (3.00 cr.) Prerequisite: HS 101, one HS300-level course, and WR100 or WR101. An engagement in popular history and cul- ture from 1780 to 1830, a period commonly known as the Early Republic or the New Nation. It examines a wide range of sources (newspapers and magazines, posters, memoirs, sermons, art, ads, and literature) which reflect the major issues of this period, such as the Constitution; American westward expansion; the "Indian Problem";industrialization and the market revolution; transcen- dentalism; immigration and the making of the work- ing class; as well as the role of race and gender in the formation of an American character. It also addresses the process of opinion repetition, the formation and function of stereotypes, and the reproduction of ide- ology. Counts toward American Studies minor.193
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Prerequisite: HS101, one HS300-level course, and WR100 or WR101. Examines the transformation of the United States into an urban, industrial society during the rowdy, rambunctious, and sometimes raw period between the end of the Civil War and the turn of the century. Focuses on the complex interplay between the country's rural, agrarian heritage and the impact of such new forces on the experiment with an active federal gov- ernment in Reconstruction, the implementation of an industrial revolution, the rise of an industrial proletariat, waves of large-scale immigration, the development of the big city, western expansion and the closing of the frontier, and growing farmer discontent. Counts toward American Studies minor.
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Prerequisite: HS101, one HS 300-level course, and WR100 or WR101. This course begins with the Constitution and goes to 1830. Using a diverse collection of materials (primary documents and secondary sources), this course emphasizes the relationship between race and place in the Early Republic years. It also shows how a nation- alist ideology was central to the social structuring as well as the political, industrial and economic develop- ment and expansion of post-revolutionary American towns and cities. Counts toward American Studies minor.
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Prerequisite: HS101, one HS300-level course, and WR100 or WR101. An intensive investigation into a specific aspect of Latin American history, politics, or culture. Topic announced each time the course is offered. Counts toward Latin American and Latino Studies minor.
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Prerequisite: HS101, one HS300-level course, and WR100 or WR101. Examines the origins of the South African apartheid system from Dutch settlement in the seven- teenth century through British conquest in the nine- teenth century, to the electoral victory of the Afrikaner Nationalist Party in 1948. Explores apartheid's demise, beginning with the elite-based African nationalist par- ties of the 1910s, campaigns of mass civil disobedience of the 1950s, Black Consciousness movement of the 1970s, and mass democratic movements of the 1980s. Issues of race, class, and gender are prominently fea- tured. Readings and research assignments stress a wide range of primary as well as secondary sources.
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Prerequisite: HS101, one HS300-level course, and WR100 or WR101. Examines the tumultuous years in the four countries of East Asia: China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam. Through readings and film, the course looks at World War II, the occupation of Japan, the Chinese Commu- nist revolution, the Vietnamese revolution, the Cold War, the Indochina War, and the Korean War. Counts toward Asian Studies minor.
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Prerequisite: HS101, one HS300-level course, and WR100 or WR101. Since the late 1800s, Latin America has rapidly urbanized and now has three of the world's ten largest cities. Indeed, Latin America's urban problems have largely prefigured current American urban dilemmas. In addition to the general problems of urban history, this course given special attention to the important role foreign migration has and continues to play. Students study the historical experiences of foreign migrants to Latin America and Latin American migrants to the United States: how have those experiences differed; are there still social melting pots; and will Latin American and United States cities in the twenty-first century be more similar than different Counts toward Latin Ameri- can and Latino Studies minor.
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Prerequisite: HS101, one HS300-level course, and WR100 or WR101. Historic preservation involves the ecology of our "built environment." It asks what sorts of buildingsand neighborhoods contribute to our sense of com- munity and well-being, and how these buildings and neighborhoods might be preserved for this and future generations. Preservationists have assembled an array of economic and legal tools to encourage the profitable restoration or adaptive reuse of America's most valuable buildings and neighborhoods. Contains three main ele- ments: a study of American architectural history and styles, with field experience in "learning to look" atthe built environment; consideration of recent trends in the preservation movement in the United States and in Maryland, including a trip to the annual conference of the Maryland Historic Trust; and a field exercise in architectural and community history in Baltimore.194 History
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