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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits Development of the major American traditions of Protestantism, Catholicism, and Judaism. Puritanism and its legacy; the Great Awakening; Christianity, slavery and the Civil War; the religious experience of Black Americans. Interaction between religious thought and such other aspects of American culture as ethnicity, social change, sexual mores, intellectual life. This course is the same as American Studies 62.
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3 hours; 3 credits Development of the frontier from the seventeenth-century colonies to twentieth-century California; issues of land and water use; role of the federal government; the myth of the cowboy and the frontier image in national self-definition; Indian culture and Indian wars; the culture of La Raza in the southwest. This course is the same as American Studies 20.3. (Not open to students who have completed History 43.9 in spring 1988.)
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3 hours; 3 credits The history of women in the United States, with emphasis on the last two centuries. Gender intersections with race, class, and ethnicity in the areas of work, personal relationships, and control over reproduction.Women in organizations of labor, religion, and politics, including the feminist movements. Changing images of women. (Not open to students who have completed History 43.9 topic: Daughters of the Promised Land:Women in American History.) This course is the same as Women's Studies 43.
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3 hours; 3 credits History of immigration to America from the first European settlers to the present. Old and new waves of immigrants; immigration and citizenship in the age of Revolution; the rise of nativism; immigration policy; assimilation, ethnic resilience, and cultural hegemony in immigrant communities; the impact of race on ethnic identities; culture, politics, work, and gender in immigrant communities; post-World War II immigrants, migrants, and refugees; America's newest immigrants.
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3 hours; 3 credits Introduction to the field of public history. Films, television, living history, archives and archaeology; local and business history.
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3 hours; 3 credits Introduction to the history and interpretation of American popular arts and culture. Popular music, theater, radio, film, television, and advertising. Popular expressions as shapers and reflectors of American ideas about nationalism, class, gender, ethnicity/race, region, and generation. This course is the same as American Studies 68. History 215
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits Colonial origins of the ideas and forms of American constitutional development. Drafting and establishment of the Constitution. Study of its changing interpretation in the context of changing global political, economic, and social conditions of the nineteenth century and twentieth century, particularly concerning class, race, and gender. Evolving concepts of federalism and liberty.
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3 hours lecture; 3 credits Political and legal history of children's issues in the United States, focused on the attitudes and actions of figures in power. Origins of public education and welfare; debate over child labor. Brown v. Board of Education, In re Gault, Tinker v. Des Moines. Abortion, busing, welfare reform, and children's rights in the legal and political arenas. (This course is the same as Children's Studies 40.1.)
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3 hours; 3 credits Colonial period through the Civil War. Origins and growth of American society during the colonial and early national eras. Population, immigration, and migration. Races, religions and nationalities. Class, status, and mobility.The family and other social institutions.
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3 hours; 3 credits Causes and effects of social changes including problems of Reconstruction, rise of big business, role of the courts, Jim Crow, immigration and migration, progressivism, prohibition, patriotism, personal liberties in time of war, major issues in the Great Depression and New Deal, affluent society, and increased social concerns.
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