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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Junior standing or the consent of the instructor. Lecture and readings. Seventeenth-century Spanish and French explorations and interaction with the Indians; settlement and organization of the Louisiana territory; lead mining and the fur trade; the Louisiana Purchase; the Missouri territory; the struggle for statehood and slavery; antebellum politics; banking and internal improvements; westward expansion; Civil War and reconstruction; postwar agrarian politics, industrialization; Irish, German, and southern European immigration; the Progressive reforms--political and economic change; and twentieth-century social changes and political developments.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of the instructor. This course will provide an overview of the history of the St. Louis metropolitan region from its founding in 1764 to the present. Main topics will include the St. Louis region before the Europeans, forces leading to the founding of the city, St. Louis as an "urban frontier," the Age of Steam on water and rail, the questions of slavery and the Civil War, St. Louis in the Gilded Age, the World's Fair, early efforts at city planning, impact of the automobile, St. Louis during the Depression and World War II, post war suburbanization, urban renewal St. Louis-style, school desegregation, the Schoemehl years, the emergence of St. Louis "Edge Cities," and St. Louis 2004.
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3.00 Credits
Same as WGST 2012, SOC WK 2102, and SOC 2102. This core class is required for all Women's and Gender Studies Certificate earners. This class introduces students to cultural, political and historical issues that shape gender. Through a variety of disciplinary perspectives in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences, the course familiarizes students with a diverse female and male experiences and gendered power relationships.
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3.00 Credits
Same as ANTHRO 2117 Greek Civilization has had a deep impact on contemporary society in art; social, political, and economic organization; philosophy; law; medicine; and science. This course covers major aspects of Greek history and culture from antiquity to the present. It considers the major political and military events of Greek history, as well as important aspects of Greek culture, including sports and the history of the Olympic Games, literature, philosophy, and mythology.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the history of work and the working class in the United States. It focuses on the transformation of the workplace, the evolution of working class consciousness, the development of the labor movement, the role of race, gender and ethnicity in uniting or dividing the working class, and the nature of labor's relations with other social groups in the political arena. Particular emphasis on the political, and economic conditions and strategies of periods when working class power was growing.
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3.00 Credits
Lectures and discussions on selected topics from the Trojan War to the War in Iraq.
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3.00 Credits
The course provides unique insight into the turbulent events of the last 100 years by combining rare archival film footage with the testimony of ordinary people who lived through the century's sweeping changes and who recount their firsthand experiences.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: ECON 1000 or 1001 or consent of instructor. Same as ECON 2800. Uses economic concepts to explain historical developments in the American economy, beginning with hunter-gatherers who crossed the Bering land bridge around 12,000 B.C. Main topics include Native American economies, European exploration and conquest, the colonial economies, indentured servitude, the American Revolution, the U.S. Constitution, westward expansion, transportation, the Industrial Revolution, state banking and free banking, slavery, the Civil War, post-bellum agriculture, the rise of big business and antitrust, banking panics, the Federal Reserve Act, the First and Second World Wars, the New Deal, and the growth of government in postwar economy.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor. Special topics in history. The course may be repeated for credit with the consent of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor. English background of colonization; rise of distinctive New England and Southern societies; English colonial policy to the Peace of Paris.
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