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  • HISTORY 1001: History of Philadelphia

    3.00 Credits
    Temple University

    This course is intended as an introduction to the history of Philadelphia, broadly defined as the region as well as the city, and assumes no background or deeply developed interest in American history. It presents a general survey that can pique the curiosity of anyone who wants to explore one of the nation’s most exciting cities, but it is also meant to be especially useful to students imagining careers in such diverse fields as hospitality and tourism, journalism and education, environmental studies and law. The course will examine both how national and international events (say, the Revolution or the rise of the modern global economy) impacted the city, and also how the city experienced forces (like the adoption of the automobile) that transformed it.
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  • HISTORY 1002: America in the Age of Lincoln

    3.00 Credits
    Temple University

    This course uses Abraham Lincoln’s extraordinary life as a prism through which to view the Civil War era. We will read and analyze Lincoln’s legendary speeches and other primary sources, and sample the vast scholarship on his political career and personal life. We will debate his views on slavery, emancipation, civil liberties, and military strategy, and evaluate his record and his legacy as a leader.
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  • HISTORY 1003: History of the American West

    3.00 Credits
    Temple University

    This course examines the American West as a place of conquest, as a largely desert environment quite unlike the East, and as an icon of American culture. Through lecture, reading, and discussion, we will explore these three overlapping themes: 1) cultural encounters in the West, among Euroamericans, Indians, Mexican-Americans of the Southwestern borderlands, and Asian immigrants to the Pacific Coast; 2) the reciprocal relationship between people and the environment; and 3) the cultural symbolism of the American West, both as an enduring national icon and as an ideology that has shaped settlement.
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  • HISTORY 1004: United States at War

    3.00 Credits
    Temple University

    This course is a survey of the rise of the American military establishment from its origins as a small, neglected cadre of coastal and frontier guardians to a mighty world police force and the most expensive concern of the federal government. Emphasis will be placed on the development of military policy, the principles of war, and the inter-relationship between military affairs, technology, politics, and social change.
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  • HISTORY 1005: Youth, Romance, and Sex in post-WWII America

    3.00 Credits
    Temple University

    American understandings of what is appropriate sexual and romantic behavior for youth changed dramatically over the second half of the 20th century - as did the actual behavior of young people. In this course we will try to understand why those changes took place and how the meanings of ‘romance’ and ‘sex’ have been struggled with in our recent past. This course is also an introduction to the study of history: students will work extensively with primary documents, do oral histories, and analyze different scholarly interpretations of the same set of events.
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  • HISTORY 1006: History of Sex and Gender in Film

    3.00 Credits
    Temple University

    Students will analyze mainstream, popular films produced in the post-WWII 20th century U.S., treating them as cultural texts that shed light on the ongoing historical struggles over gender identity and appropriate sexual behaviors. The course focuses on a volatile and complicated period in America’s history: the years from World War II through the present. In those years, America’s social-sexual mores and our ideas of masculinity and femininity (as well as our definitions of appropriate gender roles) have changed dramatically, but not without controversy. In watching and analyzing films that millions of Americans saw when they were first released, we will try to understand how these films fit into ongoing conversations about sex and gender in specific historical eras.
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  • HISTORY 1007: Popular Culture in 20th Century America

    3.00 Credits
    Temple University

    This course examines the roles that stereotypes, fashions, sports, the automobile, movies, radio, television, and leisure activities, have played in 20th century American culture, and the manifestations of political and cultural life that the artifacts and leisure activities of the average American exemplified. A knowledge of the history and development of popular culture reveals the roots of modern American society and culture, and explains why Americans have not only developed in a unique way, but why their cultural influence has been so great on a global scale. As such, the course allows students to gain a broader view of American society while providing depth and clarity of understanding of it through areas not usually addressed by more traditional avenues of learning. Toward this end, students will write a research paper on a topic in popular culture using written, oral, and visual materials. Emphasis will be placed on the development of the student’s topic through an analysis of historical context, asking a proper historical question, analyzing multiple historical factors, and formulating historical arguments.
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  • HISTORY 1008: The Sixties: The American Experience

    3.00 Credits
    Temple University

    This course will explore the history of the United States in the Sixties era with a major focus on struggles for social justice, the Vietnam War, and the counterculture. Through readings, films, guest speakers, lectures, and discussion, we will tackle the great controversies and debates of the era.
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  • HISTORY 1011: Modern U.S. History Through Film

    3.00 Credits
    Temple University

    This course will examine aspects of U.S. history in the 20th century through the use of public released feature motion pictures. In this visually oriented society, every student encounters images of history and culture on an almost daily basis. Critical thinking about the visual media must be learned. Every motion picture is a primary document that can be read, interpreted, and studied with as much depth as a written document. Because of their complexity, however, motion pictures reveal a vast array of contemporary attitudes specific to their period. A series of motion pictures will be shown illustrating different aspects of American history, and students will learn to critically examine these historical documents for different levels of meaning. They will analyze not only the surface plots of the films, but the underlying historical assumptions that provided the intellectual underpinning of the movies. They will write papers based on their abilities to analyze the visual documents and fashion an historical argument.
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  • HISTORY 1013: History of the American Presidency

    3.00 Credits
    Temple University

    This course examines historical developments in the office of the U.S. president from its establishment to contemporary times. Through lectures, discussions, class projects, and outside assignments, we will explore the historical literature dealing with the creation and evolution of the office; the presidents who have shaped the office; the powers and limitations of the office in both foreign and domestic affairs; the president’s relationship to the courts, the Congress, the people, and the press; and the broad political developments essential to our understanding of the place of the presidency within our changing political culture. This course asks: How has our most important national political institution come to be what it is? Two themes permeate the course: (1) What is the source and nature of presidential power? (2) Who are the men who have held the office and why have they failed or succeeded? This course prepares students for further historical or other academic studies and for related professional careers in law, journalism, or executive management. More importantly, the course engages students’ concerns as life-long participants in American democracy.
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