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3.00 Credits
1 semester, 3 credits ( Social Science Core) An introduction to the study of human relations at work, particularly in the business world.This course investigates human social behavior within modern organizations from the perspective of sociology. Same as SOC 335.
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3.00 Credits
1 semester, 3 credits An opportunity for students to broaden their understanding of American history and culture by working as interns at institutions such as the Rhode Island or Newport Historical Society, Peabody Essex Museum, Providence City Hall, Slater Mill Historic Site, or the Providence Maritime Foundation. Internship opportunities within the broad area of communications also are available for students wishing to test out career interests and to develop professional skills.
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3.00 Credits
1 semester, 3 credits The topics discussed in the seminar vary from semester to semester.
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3.00 Credits
1 semester, 3 credits This course studies the roots and course of the ColdWar, and its impact on domestic culture-Hollywood's responseto McCarthyism, the impact of anticommunism on domestic ideology and sexuality, and the implications of America's international anti-Communist crusade on its political institutions. Same as HIS 485.
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3.00 Credits
1 semester, 3 credits Focuses on the AmericanWest and its place in American culture and imagination, including the significance of the frontier in American history; cultural contacts and contracts; the impact of race, gender, and ethnicity on one's experience of theWest; the economic and environmental history of the region. Study some of the cultural icons that contribute to "imagining theWest. Same as HIS 486.
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3.00 Credits
1 semester, 3 credits This course serves as an interdisciplinary introduction to community history with emphasis on the concepts of identity, community, and place. It explores these concepts in the broader context of American culture and through the particular history of Smith Hill, a neighborhood adjacent to Providence College.
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3.00 Credits
1 semester, 3 credits Explores the cultural history of simple living in America over the last 300 years and the tension between this idea and the dominant cultural emphasis on moral, institutional, political, and economic ideas that argue for high consumption of energy and resources.The focus is on simple living as an element of mainstream culture.
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3.00 Credits
1 semester, 3 credits This course explores how American culture has defined and used the concept of "childhood" over the past 200years, with a particular focus on the ways in which media transformations (literacy, radio, television, video, computers) have affected our ideas about childhood and informed many of the public and private institutions we take for granted.
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3.00 Credits
1 semester, 3 credits This course will examine the emergence of "modern"America during the last quarter of the 19th century.Topics will include the impact of industrialization, urbanization, and immigration on all facets of American life and how these influenced art, architecture,music, and literature.
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3.00 Credits
1 semester, 3 credits Students will have the opportunity to work with a faculty member on a topic of particular interest. Course work typically involves either directed readings or a research project. Prerequisite: Permission of the director required. NOTE: Additional electives in American studies are offered in the anthropology, art history, black studies, English, film, history, music, political science, sociology, public service, theatre arts, theology, and women's studies programs. Each semester, additional seminars developed around a particular topic or theme in American history and culture also are offered.
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