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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Examines two themes: how maleness and femaleness (gender) have changed in the last 150 years, and how women's lives in particular have been transformed. Emphasizes not only the malleability of gender but also the way that gender systems have varied in different class, race, ethnic, and religious groups. Looks at women and gender in politics, in work, in family and personal relationships, in sexuality, and in culture.
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4.00 Credits
Explores the cultural history of New York City in the 19th and 20th centuries. Special attention to literary and pictorial symbolizations of the city, urban development and urban aesthetics, and the institutions and traditions of intellectual and cultural creativity. Includes at least one walking tour.
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4.00 Credits
Examines key themes in the social history of New York City: the pattern of its physical and population growth, its social structure and class relations, ethnic and racial groups, municipal government and politics, family and work life, and institutions of social welfare and public order.
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4.00 Credits
Explores selected practical and prescriptive visions of American culture and politics articulated by writers, intellectuals, and political leaders since 1750. The work of the course is the reading and interpreting of key texts in their intellectual, political, and social contexts. Concerns itself with the interplay between ideas and experience, and politics and culture.
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4.00 Credits
Examines the history of the U.S. Southwest-the borderlands-in the 18th and 19th centuries. Covers the history of the indigenous peoples in this region, Spanish and Mexican control of the area, and the struggles between Mexico and the United States to lay claim to the land. Readings and lectures focus closely on the ways in which communities and cultures developed and interacted in a region where territorial borders between nations were often unclear and shifting.
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4.00 Credits
Survey of the experience of people of African descent in the United States to 1865, emphasizing living conditions, attitudes and theories about race, culture, and the emergence of African American identities using a chronological and topical approach. Includes topics such as African ways of life, initial contact between Africans and Europeans, the Atlantic slave trade, slavery and indentured servitude in colonial North America, restrictions on black mobility in a slave society, the domestic slave trade, abolitionism, slave resistance, free blacks, gender, and the impact of slavery on national politics during the antebellum period.
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4.00 Credits
Survey of the experience of people of African descent in the U.S. from the Civil War to the present, including themes such as freedom and equality, migratory movements, immigration, cultural contributions, military participation, politics, gender dynamics, and contemporary conditions. Topics include Reconstruction, discrimination and racialized violence, black thought and protest, institution building, racial segregation, World War I, the Harlem Renaissance, communism, World War II, civil rights, black power, nationalism, and crises surrounding busing and affirmative action.
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4.00 Credits
Examines the origins, development, and meanings of so-called cultural conflict in the United States. Why do cultural issues divide Americans? How have these issues changed over time? And how can Americans find common ground amid their stark cultural differences? Special topics include abortion, same-sex marriage, drug control, and school prayer.
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4.00 Credits
An examination of large-scale social movements in the 20th century, as well as a brief introduction to social-movement theory. We examine civil rights, populism, feminism, labor-union activism, the old and new left, gay rights, the right-to-life movement, and the new Christian Right in general. Questions include the following: How do social movements construct identities, and how do identities affect social movements? How do social movements use or repress multiple identities? When are social movements political? How and when do social movements yield or grow out of organizations, and what is the impact of the relation between movements and organizations? Are there elite social movements? Do social movements have to be democratic? When do social movements become violent? Are social movements inevitably vulnerable to demagoguery and authoritarianism?
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4.00 Credits
Drawing primarily on the histories of heterosexual and homosexual African Americans and women, this course explores the intersection of race, gender, and sexuality in 19th- and 20th-century American history. Throughout U.S. history, the social, economic, moral, and political arguments advanced to sustain the subordination of people of color, women, and gays and lesbians have frequently revolved around the sphere of sexuality. We explore important historical subjects such as abolition, lynching, welfare Department of History debates, teenage pregnancy policies, reproductive rights, and the Black Power movement, with special attention paid to the intertwined histories of racial, gender, and sexual oppression.
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