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3.00 Credits
Focused on the period from the Civil War to the end of the New Deal this course examines urban industrialization and its impact on American society, politics, and culture.
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3.00 Credits
This course will concentrate on post, present, and future political developments in those eight East European countries where communist parties once ruled. Our goal is to understand the region’s diversity and analyze common and diverging points of the communist and post-communist experiences.
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3.00 Credits
Examines popular culture in industrializing America as a means of exploring social change and cultural conflict. The course links such topics as temperance and prohibition, the rise of sports, and the emergence of mass culture as phenomena which both reflected and shaped the distribution and uses of political power.
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3.00 Credits
Modern Americans generally view childhood as a natural stage in the human life cycle distinct from the work and responsibilities of adulthood. Since the pathbreaking work of Philippe Aries (Centuries of Childhood, 1962), historians have challenged this popular assumption, arguing that far from being natural or universal, childhood is socially constructed. From this perspective, individual experiences and cultural expectations have been shaped by historical context, including social and economic conditions, race, ethnicity, religion, class, and gender. Students in this class will examine critically both popular and historical definitions of childhood, adolescence, and youth through reading in primary and secondary sources, class discussion, and formal written exercises. Common readings in Harvey Graff, ed., Growing Up in America (1987), and anthology designed for classroom use will provide a chronological and thematic framework for the course. Each student will also read, discuss, and prepare brief essays on autobiographical accounts, which may include works by Benjamin Franklin, Lucy Larcom, Frederick Douglass, Richard Wright, Sandra Cisneros, or Ann Moody. Each student will also write a review of the secondary literature on a topic in the history of childhood to be chosen in consultation with the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Social unrest in the United States from the 1960s to the present.
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3.00 Credits
(EDWS336) Taking issue with the ideology thathistory comes in neat ten-year packages, this course places the period of upheaval often called “the sixties” into a larger historical framework. We will identify andanalyze movements and ideologies that preceded, overlapped and followed the 1960’s.
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3.00 Credits
Examines major themes of Mexican social, political, and cultural history from 1810 to the present. The course pays particular attention to the ways that race, class, religion, and gender have intersected over time, and the impact of these intersections on the making of modern Mexico.
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3.00 Credits
Covers the history of the Southern Cone countries - with an emphasis on the late 19th and 20th centuries.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the historical processes that have shaped 20th and 21st century Latin America. Special emphasis is placed on understanding how major events influenced ordinary peoples’ lives and how social movements, in turn, have shaped recent Latin American history.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of Japan since 1600, including the Tokugawa Era, the Collapse of the Shogunate, the Meiji Period, the Rise of Militarism and World War II, and the Postwar Reconstruction and Economic Resurgence.
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