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4.00 Credits
This course considers the role of tourism in American society and culture from the early nineteenth to the early twenty-first century. It emphasizes how historical memory shapes tourist attractions and how tourism shapes local, regional, national, racial and ethnic identity.
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4.00 Credits
This course covers U.S. foreign policy from the Spanish-American-Cuban-Filipino War through the Vietnam War. The greatest attention is paid to U.S. relations with European and East Asian nations through all the parts of the world including "realist" and "idealist" interpretations of U.S. foreign policy. All students are given an opportunity to conduct an independent research project of their own.
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4.00 Credits
Rise and fall of the progressive spirit at home; the impact of World War I on the world and on the American people; economic, social, political, and literary survey of the Jazz Era; the economic consolidation and social fragmentation of the 1920s; the Great Depression.
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4.00 Credits
Study of the major social, political, economic, and cultural events and their interactions in the United States since 1939. Major topics include World War II, the origins and impact of the Cold War, Vietnam, the civil rights movements, and other movements for social change in the 1960s.
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4.00 Credits
Explores the ways in which Americans of African descent have been defined historically by themselves and by whites. The social and political consequences of adopting these definitions are also examined. Topics covered include representations in law and popular/elite culture; racial thought and the rise and fall of slavery/Jim Crow; and self-definitions grounded in, among others, political and class differences.
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4.00 Credits
This course explores the history of African American politics, communities, and culture in the U.S. since 1945. The content and central focus will vary with the instructor. Examples of course themes include the modern civil rights and black power movements; the black world and the Cold War; black popular culture; gender and sexuality in postwar African America; and black America in the African diaspora.
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4.00 Credits
This course traces the history of African American sacred music from its African roots, through the nineteenth century spiritual to the twentieth century hymns, gospels and contemporary Christian compositions. This musical heritage will be analyzed within the larger context of African American social and cultural history, with an emphasis on understanding African American church culture as a buffer against racial and other forms of discrimination.
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4.00 Credits
Explores attempts by various groups to (re)define, regulate, and/or form communities around sexuality. The course's central theme differs each year. Topics include gay, lesbian, and bisexual histories and sexuality in the U.S.
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4.00 Credits
African Americans challenged white supremacy long before the emergence of the modern movement for civil rights. This course studies the politics of black resistance during the era of legal segregation-from Plessy vs. Ferguson (1896) to Brown vs. Board of Education (1954). Topics will include anti-lynching, the impact of rural to urban and southern to northern migration, unionization, Garveyism, communism, the roots of black power, and the ways that African Americans confronted the rise of a racist commercial culture.
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4.00 Credits
A study of the development of civilization in ancient Greece from prehistoric beginnings until the death of Alexander the Great. Special emphasis will be given to the rise of democracy and its expression in Athens during the Age of Pericles. The nature, extent, and interpretation of ancient evidence for historical research will receive careful attention.
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