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3.00 Credits
Presents the evolution of twentieth century American history through the medium of personal biography. Focuses on individuals who are monumentally significant in important events or movements in American politics, reform, war, race-relations, environmentalism, civil rights, academics, and culture. Prerequisite: HIST 0132
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The political, economic, and social development of the American colonies from the age of exploration to the Declaration of Independence. Topics include exploration, early settlement, and the development of the colonies through the coming of the American Revolution.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the American Revolution and its aftermath including the "critical period" and the drafting of the United States Constitution. Topics include the emergence of political parties, Jeffersonian and Jacksonian democracy, expansion and the War of 1812, and the emergence of sectionalism.
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3.00 Credits
An analytical portrayal of the American nation from the post-Reconstruction period through the beginnings of the Great Depression. Themes of study will include American industrialization, urbanization, Progressivism, and reform, economic development, and the increasingly important role of American involvement in world affairs.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores United States women's history from the 1700s to the present. We will focus on the diversity of women's experiences, including but not limited to European, African-American, Native American, Asian-American, Latina, Jewish, and lesbian. Topics include changing ideas about women's roles in society; movements for social , legal, economic, and civil rights; sexuality, family and reproduction; women and work.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of African-American history from the rise of American colonial slavery during the 1600's through to the 1960'scivil rights movement. This course will familiarize students with the principal people, events, and ideologies concerning African Americans as well as the roles that African Americans have played in shaping the nation since the establishment of slavery in America during the colonial period, through the nation's founding, during the turbulent nineteenth century, and into the modern civil rights struggles of the twentieth century.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the history of racial, ethnic, religious, and sexual minorities in the Unites States from the 1700s to the present. The types of discrimination each group has faced, both past and present, are emphasized. Topics include: Native American history, African American, Latino (focusing on Mexicans and Puerto Ricans) , the Irish experience, Asian and Arab-Americans, Jews and Muslims, gays and lesbians, as well as changing definitions of "whiteness." Prerequisite: HIST 0130, 0131 , or 0132.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the American city from colonial times to the present. The course examines the impact of urbanization upon social and institutional structures. Topics include the rise of the city, transportation revolution, industrialization, immigration, ghettos, suburbanization, metropolitan and megalopolitan forms, urban race relations, and city and regional planning. Prerequisite: HIST 0130, 0131 or 0132.
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3.00 Credits
This course will offer readings and/or research in a specific prearranged topic in American history. Examples of the topics are sickness and health in American History, the Immigrant Experience, the Depression, etc. This course may be taken three times for credit.
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3.00 Credits
The American West is a one semester upper-division history course which examines the evolution of the Trans-Mississippi American West through the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Themes will include the western mining frontier, the cattlemen's frontier, and the farmer's frontier. These themes will be further developed by an examination of federal governmental policy toward Native- Americans and environmental issues. This approach will also be augmented by a thorough investigation of social, economic, political, and multicultural issues in the Trans-Mississippi West.
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