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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Examines the social and political transformation of the United States in the first half of the 19th century, emphasizing how emerging faith in democracy, markets, westward expansion, individual morality, and gender-defined roles in public and private spheres, related to the simultaneous growth of slave labor, militant nationalism, industrial development, class distinctions, racial conflict, and war with Mexico by the late 1840s, and failed nationalism in the decade before the Civil War.
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4.00 Credits
Examines the transformations of thought and industry that challenged nationalist identities in the United States after 1850, the resulting constitutional crisis and war, and efforts to reconstruct the nation and reunite its people. Considers how the experience of war reconstructed notions of public authority in relation to race, gender, and class in the post-war era, with attention to industrial reorganization of natural and urban landscapes for work and leisure, and related political reforms.
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4.00 Credits
Examines the industrial transformation of American life in the five decades after the Civil War, including communitarian responses and labor resistance to managerial authority and systematization in the workplace, in the manipulation of race-defined and gender-defined roles for public and private advantage, in the exploitation of public lands and of natural landscapes, in the reorganization of sport and leisure, in the reorganization of urban and rural life, and in the acquisition of overseas possessions.
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4.00 Credits
Examines the visions, limits, and challenges of reform in American life in the period 1890-1914. Topics for analysis include woman suffrage and women's rights, public health, challenges to industrial capitalism, movements for the empowerement of workers and ethnic Americans and Americans of color, political reform agendas, and responses to imperialism.
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4.00 Credits
Special topics in the history of multicultural America. May be taken twice if content not repeated.
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4.00 Credits
Provides students with a critical foundation in the analysis of autobiography and biography as sources for the study of the American past.
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4.00 Credits
Examines the impact of World War I and World War II had on Americans and American society. Students will consider such issues as gender and war, the home front, national and international policy, labor issues, race and ethnicity, and the transformation of American culture through mechanization, bureaucratization and wartime shifts in production.
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4.00 Credits
This course will examine the impact of the Cold War on Americans and American society. Students will consider such issues as national and international policy, McCarthyism, the Vietnam conflict and the military-industrial complex.
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4.00 Credits
This course presents three key areas of analysis for the study of health, medicine and gender in historical perspective. The first concerns gendered ideas about sexuality and gender roles and how these relate to health care in history. The second is a comparative examination of women and men as health care providers in different cultures. The third is a focus on women and men as recipients of health care and as health care activists.
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4.00 Credits
An overview of Mexican history and culture from the invention of civilization to the creation of the modern Mexican state. Pre-Columbian themes include agriculture, trade, religion, art, architecture, and political expansion. Colonial themes include the conquest and fusion of Spanish and Native American cultures. Nineteenth century themes include independence, foreign invasion, civil war and modernization. Emphasis of relevance to Chicano/a/Latino/a heritage.
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