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4.00 Credits
Examines the development of the mass communications industries in the U.S.: newspapers, advertising, TV, film and radio are among the media explored. This course is primarily concerned with the impact of media on our lives. It emphasizes the content of media, the patterns of control and the impact of developing technologies. Offered every year. Prerequisite: ECI placement or equivalent
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4.00 Credits
No course description available.
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4.00 Credits
This course studies the form of autobiography through weekly writings about the student's own life. Focuses on the most important elements of identity in America: class, race, and gender. Students read authors' and students' autobiographies to learn about writing as a craft, finding one's own style, developing confidence in it and working at it. Offered periodically. Prerequisite: ECI placement or equivalent
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4.00 Credits
This introductory course presents journalism in all its forms: newspaper, television, radio, video, magazines, and the Internet. Students receive practical training in journalistic skills. They report and write news, feature stories, editorials, and reviews. The course also covers the history of American journalism and makes use of the college's TV studio. Offered every semester. Prerequisite: EC I .
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In this internship, students will work at community newspapers on Long Island and in New York City to learn about journalism first-hand. Students meet regularly with their instructor to discuss and analyze their experiences. Each student prepares a portfolio from the internship and essay on the experience. Prerequisites: ECI placement or equivalent; Permission of instructor
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No course description available.
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History of the American people to 1877 which emphasizes the experience of “ordinary” people as well as the contributions of elites.Topics include: the American Revolution and the Constitution, the origins and development of slavery, the development of Northern capitalism, territorial expansion and displacement of Native Americans, and the confl icts which led to the Civil War. Novels and fi lms supplement more traditional texts. Offered every semester. Prerequisite: EC II placement.
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4.00 Credits
History of the American people, from1877 to present. Topics include: Reconstruction, the Industrial Revolution and the growth of the corporation, the creation of the working class, World Wars and American expansion, Progressivism, the Depression and the New Deal, the rise of industrial unionism, the Cold War, and the Civil Rights movement. Novels and films supplement more traditional texts. Offered every year. Prerequisite: ECII placement or equivalent Note: American People II is also given during the summer; however, only one part can be taken in the summer.
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This course examines the development of the Black Christian Church in its visible and "invisible institutional forms during the colonial period, and the merging of these two branches, free and slave, following te Civil War. Also the emergence of Holiness and Pentecostal sects, the impact of urban migrations on black spiritual expression, the Black church and civil rights, gender issues, and the recent challenge of Islam will be dealt with. Prerequisite: ECII
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America has often been thought of as a classless society, though early in U.S. history with the rise of wage labor and industrialism, Americans became increasingly divided by class. This course examines working Americans from the colonial era to the present. It examines how workers-men and women; white, black and ethnic-lived, how they worked, and how they played. Attention is given to the rise of mass production, and how mass production and consumption changed working Americans' lives. The variety of political, cul- tural and economic ways that workers sought to better their lives is also explored. Prerequisite: ECII
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