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4.00 Credits
This course will focus on 20th century American voices as they have developed in diverse media - novels, film, music, TV, and computers. Individual speakers will be used to represent influential groups or trends that emerged and the themes and issues associated with them. Prerequesite: EMS
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4.00 Credits
This senior seminar will focus on changing ideas about the character and potential of political, economic and social life in the U.S. Visions of the elements of a more perfect social described in works published from the middle of the 19th Century on, will be used to examine debates and conversations about the nature and sources of social problems and the means of correcting them. Prerequisite: EMS
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4.00 Credits
This senior seminar looks at "point of view" in historical writing, the multiple "ways of seeing" history, and the various approaches that scholars and writes have employed in order to think and write about the past. The readings that have been selected exemplify the advantages and limitations of the political, economic, social, and cultural perspectives and the interpretive possibilities of narrative, biography, and fiction. Prerequisites: EMS
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4.00 Credits
This senior seminar examines the evolution of U.S. culture from a multicultural perspective. Special attention will be paid to the role that culture plays in social control and social change. Prerequisite: EMS
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4.00 Credits
This senior seminar provides an in-depth exploration of several movements for social change in U.S. history. Topics can include: the American revolution, movements of women's rights, populism, abolitionism, peace movements, and movements for the rights of African-Americans. Prerequisites: EMS
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4.00 Credits
What are the implications for American democracy in a world of sophisticated mass persuassion? This senior seminar course is a history of propaganda of war and politics, and the role of propaganda in the continuing conflicts between social movements and powerful institutions. The rise of public relations, and its role in politics and the mass media will be an important theme. Prerequisites: EMS
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4.00 Credits
This senior seminar focuses on the relation between mass media and different forms of popular culture. In particular, it examines the relationship between indigenous popular forms of culture and mass media. It looks at print and the rise of a vernacular culture and electronic media in the context of a consumer culture, and explores different theoretical approaches to the understanding of media in modern society. Prerequisites: EMS
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4.00 Credits
No course description available.
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4.00 Credits
In this course, students will learn how to do historical research including use of primary documents, archival research, quanititative methods and oral history. Using these techniques, students will then write a research paper. Prerequisites: EMS;AS3112,AS3122 or instructor permission
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4.00 Credits
This course examines the similarities and differences between non-fiction as exemplified by novelists who were also journalists. Special attention will be paid to the works of Mark Twain, Earnest Hemingway, Richard Wright, Truman Capote, Joan didion, and in particular Alex Haley and Hunter Thompson. Each wrote reportage and works of imaginative story telling. The course will examine the historical period in which an author lived and compare fiction and non-fiction by analyzing style, narrative, character, description, and subject matter.
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