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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the development of an industrial society, parliamentary government, mass culture, and imperialism from the Meiji reforms of the late 19th century through World War II to the present
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3.00 Credits
An exploration of working-class experience in the United States as represented in poetry, fiction, memoir, and other literary genres. The course emphasizes the diversity of the working class, which in every era includes most people. Themes include: migration and immigration; creativity, agency, and resistance; the dignity of work and the degradation of the worker in class society; and conflict, solidarity, and the common good
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3.00 Credits
A study of the history of women in America from the colonial era to the present focusing on struggles for equal rights, family, sexuality, feminism, leadership, and the impact of race, class, and ethnicity
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3.00 Credits
An examination of the changes in the history of the American city from colonial origins to its industrial-urban expression in the early 1900s, to the postindustrial-global city of today. Changing definitions of public space, community, municipal politics and economics, (global and local), cultural diversity and immigration, city culture, urban architecture, suburbanization, and domestic life will provide the focus of our inquiry
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3.00 Credits
A study of major dynamics of the North Atlantic world. Focus on significant ideas, figures, practices, texts, institutions, or issues. Methodologies to investigate historical problems
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3.00 Credits
A study of the reconstruction of European politics and society after 1945: emergence of Cold War in Europe; decolonization; economic cooperation and development; East-West relations; and the end of the Cold War
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3.00 Credits
A study of metropolis and empire. Traces the development of Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and England and examines from postcolonial perspectives the history and culture of the multi-ethnic, multinational British Empire that stretched over five continents until its dissolution
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3.00 Credits
Why did some seven million people leave Ireland for North America from the 17th through the 20th centuries? What did this migration mean for the country they left and more especially, the country that received them? How did the United States transform the immigrant Irish and their children, and how did the Irish transform the United States? This course will seek to understand the dynamic, ongoing impact of this mass migration on the economic, political, and cultural development of the United States, where 45 million people today claim some ancestral connection to Ireland
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3.00 Credits
The course is designed to invite male and female students who have a scholarly and/or personal interest in both understanding the complexity of the subject and considering implications for positive changes in areas where males struggle. The class explores constructs of masculinity in the U.S. using an intersectional approach, which assumes that there are multiple masculinities that intersect with race, class, ableism, sexuality and gender identity. Masculinity is a powerful vehicle that motivates the behavior of boys and men, and if it is redefined and constructed as responsibility for others (and not domination) the impacts can be tremendous
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3.00 Credits
Study of key themes and major events in the Caribbean from initial European contact to emergence of independent states. Cross-cultural approach that recognizes shared history not only within the Caribbean, but also with Africa and the American South
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