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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the lives of women in America from the beginning of the colonial era to 1870, with special emphasis on how race, class, region, and gender have affected women's identities, relationships, and daily lives. Topics include religion, paid and unpaid labor, life cycles, friendships, family life, community, health and sexuality, the women's rights movements, and the impact of the American Revolution and the Civil War.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the lives of women in America from 1870 to today, with special emphasis on how race, class, region, and gender have affected women's identities, relationships, and daily lives. Topics include religion, paid and unpaid labor, prostitution, friendships, family life, community, health and sexuality, birth control, the women's rights movement, and the impact of U.S. involvement in international wars.
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3.00 Credits
An in-depth survey of political, cultural, social, and economic developments in America from 1820 to 1860. Topics include the development of classes, party politics, slavery, changes in the family, westward expansion, sectionalism, and the origin of the Civil War.
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3.00 Credits
An in-depth survey of political, cultural, social, and economic developments in America from 1861 to 1914. Topics include the Civil War, Reconstruction, the Gilded Age, national growth and its impact on peoples of color, and Progressive Reform.
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3.00 Credits
An in-depth survey of political, cultural, social, and economic developments in America from 1914 to 1945. Topics include the decline of Progressivism, cultural conflict in the 1920s, the Great Depression and the New Deal, and the home front during World War II.
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3.00 Credits
An in-depth survey of political, cultural, social, and economic developments in America since 1945. Topics include the origins and development of the Cold War, McCarthyism, the rise of a counterculture, the Civil Rights Movement, the Vietnam War, and recent ideological conflict between liberalism and conservatism.
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3.00 Credits
From the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire in 1911 to the "second shift" in the 1980s, this course examines experiences of working women and the nature of women's work in the United States in the 20th century. How have societal expectations for women shaped their paid and unpaid labor? How have class, ethnicity, and race impacted definitions of and women's experiences with work? Researching from both primary and secondary sources that describe a variety of work settings and occupations, students study the labor process and sexual division of labor, consider changes in the labor market and modes of managerial control, and debate the historical resilience of job segregation and the ideology of sex-typing.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines developments and important episodes in the history of the American working classes on the shop floor and beyond the factory's gates from the 1820s through modern times. It surveys major themes and issues in U.S. labor history, including the rise of industrialization, formations of class and class consciousness, changes to labor markets and work processes, labor radicalism, unionization, and the impacts of gender, race, and ethnicity on working-class history.
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3.00 Credits
Students read works by major writers from Japan, China, India, African nations, and other cultures. This course includes works by writers such as Basho, Firdausi, Confucius, Li Po, Motokiyo, and Mushima. In addition, students study selections from The Koran, The Bhagavad Gita, and a number of Japanese Noh plays.
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3.00 Credits
The role of women in the making of the American nation. Topics include the role of women in industry and education, the feminist movement of the 19th and 20th centuries, the image of women in the media and in society, and the changing role of women in U.S. contemporary life.
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