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3.00 Credits
Cross-listed as AAS 419. Prerequisites: HST 211 and HST 390. Provides an intensive study of the Civil War era (1848-1877). Surveys the breakdown of the American institutions that led to the Civil War, followed by an examination of the War itself and its controversial aftermath in the Reconstruction era. 3 Cr.
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Prerequisite: HST 212 and HST 390. Examines the period of dramatic change unleashed by America ? precipitous transformation from rural, agrarian, Protestant society into an urban-industrial giant reshaped by immigration. Explores the impact of these forces on the American economy, family life, religion, politics, education and international role. Culminates with the Great Depression leading into the New Deal and WWII. 3 Cr.
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Prerequisite: HST 212. Uses the Depression as a watershed and then examines American society to the present. Features political change from Roosevelt to Reagan, foreign policy from Pearl Harbor to the present, and the evolution of popular culture since the 1920s. Also gives attention to economic and social developments. 3 Cr.
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Prerequisite: HST 211 or HST 212. American education can only be understood in light of its past. Americans have long placed education at the center of national life, expecting it to cure social problems, shape cultural identities, and promote both individual mobility and social cohesiveness. Examines the evolution of American schools and educational beliefs with the context of social, cultural, political and economic change and places American education into an international perspective. 3 Cr.
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Prerequisite: HST 212. In the late 19th Century the United States burst on the international scene, quickly becoming the most influential society in history. Examines that dramatic trajectory through America ? cultural, diplomatic, economic, educational, and political relations with other societies. Explores the impact of America on other societies and their impact on American society. 3 Cr.
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Prerequisite: HST 390 or instructor ? permission. Examines the emergence of modern American culture between the late 19th and early 21st centuries. Focuses on how nationalism and war, race and gender, industrial production and consumption, science and technology and mass education and entertainment affected the way Americans identified themselves and made sense of their world. 3 Cr. Spring
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Cross-listed as WMS 429. A reading seminar. Investigates how women ? history is constructed as social and cultural history with an emphasis on class, and how the discipline interacts with cultural studies in analyzing representations of women in popular culture, biography, and visual media. 3 Cr.
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Prerequisites: HST 102 and HST 212. As an advanced course, covers the French, Spanish, and British Caribbeans since the Haitian Revolution of the 1790s. Investigates how slavery and abolition, colonialism and nationalism, social and cultural movements, racism and dependency have forged this fascinating and paradoxical region. Considers questions of identity, especially for Afro-Caribbean women and men, in comparative framework. 3 Cr.
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Cross-listed as WMS 438. As an advanced course, examines the diversity of Latin-American and Caribbean women ? experiences from the Iberian conquest to the 20th -century. Analyzes the gender dynamics of colonial, national, dictatorial and revolutionary states, economies and cultures, and the importance of wome n? s movements and feminism. Includes discussion of Latina history in the US and of Latin-American and Caribbean masculinity in historical perspective . 3 Cr.
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Explores the military aspects of the Great War (1914-18): the causes of the war, the German offensive, the Western and Eastern fronts, sea battles, technology and warfare, the entry of the United States, the disintegration of Czarist Russia, and the movements for peace. 3 Cr.
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