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1.00 Credits
3.00 credits (3.00 lec) This course examines the African experience in the Americas from the pre-Columbian era to the Civil War. This includes African civilizations and their cultural characteristics, the formation of capitalism and its slavery roots, and the development of racialistic structures. Included will be issues of cultural hegemony, states' rights and the Civil War. The progressive attempts by African-American men and women and their Native American and Caucasian allies to obtain freedom and to gain their political rights will be explored. Fulfills MnTC Goal Areas 5 and 7. Prerequisites: Placement into READ 0200 or placement into ESOL 0052 or completion of READ 0100 or ESOL 0042 with faculty recommendation into ESOL 0052; placement into ENGL 1110 or completion of ENGL 0900 or ESOL 0051.
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2.00 Credits
3.00 credits (3.00 lec) This course examines the Reconstruction and Post- Reconstruction issues experienced by African-Americans. The course focuses on African-American support for invention, the legacy of inventions, business and economic expansion, and labor issues that affect family stability in the present. In addition, the roots and development of the Civil Rights Movement will be explored in the context of the legal and social segregation in the United States. Fulfills MnTC Goal Areas 5 and 7. Prerequisites: Placement into READ 0200 or placement into ESOL 0052 or completion of READ 0100 or ESOL 0042 with faculty recommendation into ESOL 0052; placement into ENGL 1110 or completion of ENGL 0900 or ESOL 0051.
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3.00 Credits
3.00 credits (3.00 lec) This course examines the political, economic, social and cultural aspects of the African experience in Latin America. Included in this survey are the rise of capitalism and the legacy of music, art, performance art, political activity, and social fabric. Fulfills MnTC Goal Areas 5 and 7. Prerequisites: Placement into READ 0200 or placement into ESOL 0052 or completion of READ 0100 or ESOL 0042 with faculty recommendation into ESOL 0052; placement into ENGL 1110 or completion of ENGL 0900 or ESOL 0051.
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4.00 Credits
4.00 credits (4.00 lec) This course is an introduction to the history of Native Americans from the pre-Columbian period to the present, with special emphasis on Native Americans in Minnesota. This approach to history is multidimensional with emphasis on oral history: personal history, through memoirs and speeches; tribal history, by focusing on the history of one reservation; and international history, by focusing on government policies and Indian experiences. Fulfills MnTC Goal Areas 5 and 7. Prerequisites: Placement into READ 0200 or placement into ESOL 0052 or completion of READ 0100 or ESOL 0042 with faculty recommendation into ESOL 0052; placement into ENGL 1110 or completion of ENGL 0900 or ESOL 0051.
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2.00 Credits
2.00 credits (2.00 lec) This course is a survey of the four major eras in the Caribbean's multicultural history: Pre-Hispanic indigenous people-Ciboney, Carib, Taino/Arawak (pre-European history-15th century); African slave trade, Asian indentured servant and plantation economics (16th to the 19th centuries); and fragmented nationalism in the contemporary Caribbean (20th century). Fulfills MnTC Goal Areas 5 and 7. Prerequisites: Placement into READ 0200 or placement into ESOL 0052 or completion of READ 0100 or ESOL 0042 with faculty recommendation into ESOL 0052; placement into ENGL 1110 or completion of ENGL 0900 or ESOL 0051.
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3.00 Credits
3.00 credits (3.00 lec) This course is a broad survey that examines the political, economic, social and cultural aspects of the Mexican historical experience from its Native American roots to the present. Fulfills MnTC Goal Areas 5 and 7. Prerequisites: Placement into READ 0200 or placement into ESOL 0052 or completion of READ 0100 or ESOL 0042 with faculty recommendation into ESOL 0052; placement into ENGL 1110 or completion of ENGL 0900 or ESOL 0051.
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3.00 Credits
3.00 credits (3.00 lec) This course is a survey of the labor history of work and workers and of how it has been transformed by class, race and gender over the course of American history. Beginning with indigenous American Indian cultures and ending with the global capitalist economy of the present, this course examines how economic, technological, political, social, and cultural forces, including sexism and racism, interacted to change work and U.S. society. The course also looks at how different groups of working people, women and men of diverse ethnic and racial backgrounds, struggled to organize and respond to the changes going on around them. Fulfills MnTC Goal Areas 5 and 7. Prerequisites: Placement into READ 0200 or placement into ESOL 0052 or completion of READ 0100 or ESOL 0042 with faculty recommendation into ESOL 0052; placement into ENGL 1110 or completion of ENGL 0900 or ESOL 0051.
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3.00 Credits
3.00 credits (3.00 lec) This course studies women's experience from the 1600s to the Civil War. Major themes include: women writing and publishing the debates about democracy; women's work during the Revolutionary War; resistance to colonization by indigenous women of Seminole, Creek, Cherokee and Anishinabe nations; women's founding of community service, educational and reform organizations; and women's leadership from the 1830s through the 1860s in the social movement to abolish slavery. The class will read original documents (biography, letters, newspapers, speeches and pamphlets) to interpret the laws intended to keep women in slavery and indentured servitude. Students will discover how women created resistance and fought for justice. Fulfills MnTC Goal Areas 5 and 9. Prerequisites: Placement into READ 0200 or placement into ESOL 0052 or completion of READ 0100 or ESOL 0042 with faculty recommendation into ESOL 0052; placement into ENGL 1110 or completion of ENGL 0900 or ESOL 0051.
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3.00 Credits
3.00 credits (3.00 lec) This course explores women's leadership on the civic stage from 1865 to the present. Major themes include leadership in passing civil rights amendments to the Constitution; Women's Christian Temperance Union, the moderate reformers who built communities all over America; the radical women who ran for local, state, and national political office; women's leadership for economic justice in Minnesota from the 1860s-WWI; Nonpartisan Leaguers and Farmer Laborites 1924-1944; leadership in the development of mothers' pensions and welfare; women in the Holocaust; women fighters in the Civil Rights Movement; indigenous women in struggle; and the idealists of the 1960s and 1970s. The extensive use of original documents for reading and discussion will enhance students' skills in the interpretation of historical documents. Fulfills MnTC Goal Areas 5 and 9. Prerequisites: Placement into READ 0200 or placement into ESOL 0052 or completion of READ 0100 or ESOL 0042 with faculty recommendation into ESOL 0052; placement into ENGL 1110 or completion of ENGL 0900 or ESOL 0051.
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3.00 Credits
3.00 credits (3.00 lec) This course introduces students to the study of contemporary China, wherein they will examine the changes that have shaped the People's Republic of China (PRC) from the Communist Revolution under the leadership of Mao Zedong through Deng Xiaoping's economic revolution to the present. Students will explore the following aspects of China's history: the Communist (CCP) Revolution and establishment of the PRC; the Nationalist (KMT) exit to Taiwan and establishment of the Republic of China (ROC); the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution; Deng Xiaoping's reforms-the "four modernizations"; tdemocracy movement and the events at Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989; recent social, cultural, economic changes; and China's growing presence in this 21st-century world. Fulfills MnTC Goal Areas 5 and 8. Prerequisite: Placement into READ 1300 or completion of READ 0200 or ESOL 0052; ENGL 1110 recommended. Intro course in Social Sciences or HIST 1000 or HIST 1010 or HIST 1020.
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