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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Junior standing or permission of the instructor. This course surveys the history of fur trading in North America and provides in-depth analyses of specific St. Louis case studies in both the French colonial period and in the era of American settlement and control. The focus on St. Louis and its hinterland emphasizes traditional and recent revisionist historiography that underscores the fur trade's significant role in forging multicultural alliances, producing international competitions (and conflict), altering ecosystems, stimulating agricultural and industrial economies and influencing American territorial expansion across the continent.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of the instructor. The physical and spatial growth of U.S. cities from colonial times to the present with special attention to the impact of industrialization, public policy, and advances in transportation technology.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of the instructor. Reviews and analyzes the development of cities from a North American perspective focusing on the 19th and 20th centuries. Attention will be given to the issue of why North American cities appear and function differently from urban areas on other continents, including Europe, Asia, and South America.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite:. Junior standing or consent of the instructor. Same as WGST 3031. Development of women's economic, political, and social role in the United States with special emphasis on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; women and work; women and the family; women and reform movements; women and education; feminist theorists and activists; images of women.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of the instructor. Same as WGST 3032. An introduction to the historical development of women's status in a variety of cultures and periods within the areas of Africa, Europe, the Far East, Latin America, and the Middle East. The course analyzes women's political, economic, familial, and sexual roles and the economic, demographic, ideological, and political forces which promoted change and continuity in those roles.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Junior standing or consent of instructor. Same as WGST 3033.This course examines the ways in which contemporary sexuality and gender theory has challenged and changed the study of culture and history. The course introduces students to sexuality and gender theory in late twentieth and early twenty-first century context [s]. It then explores dynamic links between theory and the formal structures of political economy as well as the informal structures of everyday life.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Junior standing or consent of instructor. Same as WGST 3034. This course locates sexuality at the center of history and examines its impact over time on politics, society, culture and economics.? In particular, the course focuses on changing definitions of sexual deviance, the historical evolution of formal and informal regulations of sexual practices and on the manner in which sex has been deployed in broader historical struggles involving gender, race, class migration and state building.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor. Origins and development of principal institutions and ideas of American constitutional system; role of Constitution and Supreme Court in growth of the nation; important Supreme Court decisions; great American jurists and their impact on the law; historical background to current constitutional issues.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Junior standing or the consent of instructor. This course challenges students to analyze the historical sources, objectives, and techniques of social movements initiated by racial minorities, women, gays and lesbians, evangelical Christians, and many others.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of the instructor. Same as CRIMIN 3043. The analysis, development, and change in philosophies and responses to crime. Emphasis on major forms and definitions of crime, the emergence of modern policing, the birth of the prison and the juvenile court.
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