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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Study and analysis of selected historical issues and problems in United States history to 1870. Topics will vary. May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours. 198 History
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the experience of African people in the British colonies of North America, stressing the origins and dynamics of African American cultures and communities prior to the American Revolution.
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3.00 Credits
Interpretive analysis of portraiture from ancient Egypt to the seventeenth century in western Europe.
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3.00 Credits
Study and analysis of selected historical issues in United States history from 1870 to the present. Topics will vary but usually cut across fields, regions, and periods. May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
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3.00 Credits
The story of America's longest war-the battles, theprotests, the movies, and the controversies. The VietnamWar was an epic event, the climax of the ColdWar and the high-water mark of American power. Students will learn about the experiences of combatants on both sides, the reasoning behind American strategy, and the history of Vietnam's struggle for independence. The course will also deal with the war's legacies, its place in popular culture, and the war's economic and political aftershocks. Credit given for only one of A380 and H228.
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3.00 Credits
Examination of race and racial protest after 1945. A look at several protest organizations, key social battles, individual leaders, and the struggle to end racial segregation and exclusion in education, politics, public accommodations, the workplace, and housing. Credit given for only one of A381 or AAAD A405.
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3.00 Credits
An intensive examination of the decade that tore apart post-WorldWar II American society, beginning with the confident liberalism that believed the nation could "pay any price" and "bear anburden" in order to stop communism abroad and to promote reform at home. Focuses on the internal contradictions and external challenges that destroyed this liberal agenda: civil rights and black power, the New Left, the counterculture, second-wave feminism, the sexual revolution, the VietnamWar, and the globalization of the economy; and finishing with the more conservative order that emerged in the early 1970s to deal with the conflicting realities of limited national power and wealth on the one hand, and rising demands for rights and opportunities on the other.
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3.00 Credits
History of popular music in the social, cultural, political, and economic history of the modern United States. Examination of a broad range of musical cultures from the late nineteenth century to the present, including ragtime, Tin Pan Alley, jazz, swing, Broadway, blues, gospel, country, Cajun, Zydeco, Tex-Mex, rhythm and blues, folk, rock and roll, soul, and rap. Considers the interrelationship between music on the one hand, and class, gender, race, ethnicity, and generation, on the other; and the role of popular music in American mythmaking.
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3.00 Credits
Images of blacks as reflected in American drama from1945 to the present. Emphasis on the contributions of black playwrights such as Lorraine Hansberry, Langston Hughes, Imamu Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), Ted Shine, and Ed Bullins.
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3.00 Credits
P: T120; or one of A379, A380, A383, A384; or consent of instructor. Contributions of blacks to the theatre in America. Reading and discussion of selected dramas and critiques with opportunities for involvement in the oral interpretation of one ormore of the plays.
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