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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
3 hours, 3 credits. The formation, growth, and transformation of American cities from the wilderness village to the megalopolis. Emphasis on the changing political and economic roles of cities; patterns of social stratification, power, and mobility; and trends in recent urban social and cultural life.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours, 3 credits. The motives and aspirations of immigrants, their contributions, to and effects upon, American social structure, and the tensions between assimilation and ethnicity.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours, 3 credits. Religious belief and behaviors of Americans from the seventeenth century to the present. Encounters among European, African, and indigenous religions; Christianization, evangelicalism, and revivalism; church and state relations; and religiously based movements for social reform.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours, 3 credits. The social, political, and cultural history of African American women in the United States from an interdisciplinary perspective.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours, 3 credits. The rise of business enterprise in America from its earliest commercial origins to giant corporations and conglomerates. Themes include the rise of early commerce, emergence of consolidated industry, prominent businessmen and business techniques, analysis of business philosophy and entrepreneurial attitudes, reactions to corporate power by labor and government, evolution of business forms and structures, and the impact of business enterprise on political, legal, and cultural development.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours, 3 credits. The American worker from colonial times to the present, with emphasis on the period since the Civil War. Themes include the origins and character of the American labor movement, the effect of industrialization on the workers, slavery and wage labor, the growth and development of the major American labor unions, the impact of social reformers and radicals on the labor movement and the American worker, public employees and collective bargaining, and the changing attitudes of the American worker.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours, 3 credits. Survey of American Jewish history from Colonial times until the present: migrations, socioeconomic changes, and cultural developments. Special emphasis on the history of American Jewry since 1880. Jewish socialism, Zionism in America, Jewish reactions to anti-Semitism, and Judaic religious life.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours, 3 credits. (Closed to those who have completed ECO 321.)
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3.00 Credits
3 hours, 3 credits. America's presidents and how the presidency has developed from George Washington to the present.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours, 3 credits. The urban history of the Bronx from the seventeenth century to the present. Major emphasis on 1874-1945, the period of the borough's most rapid growth, and experience with modern urban problems. Topics include ethnic immigration and mobility, the effects of mass transit development, Prohibition, and the ways various external events, such as wars and depressions, have influenced the borough and its people.
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