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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
An examination of European diplomacy since the Second World War, with special attention to the causes, course, and consequences of the Cold War. This course focuses on relations among and between Eastern and Western European states in the period 1945-1989, as well as on the process of international realignment that followed the subsequent collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. 3 semester hours
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3.00 Credits
Explores the lives of women in America from the beginning of the colonial era to 1870, with a special emphasis on how race, class, region, and gender have affected women's identities, relationships, and daily lives. Topics include religion, paid and unpaid labor, life cycles, friendships, family life, community, health and sexuality, the women's rights movements, and the impact of the American Revolution and the Civil War. 3 semester hours
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3.00 Credits
Explores the lives of women in America from 1870 to today, with special emphasis on how race, class, region, and gender have affected women's identities, relationships, and daily lives. Topics include religion, paid and unpaid labor, prostitution, friendships, family life, community, health and sexuality, birth control, the women's rights movement, and the impact of U.S. involvement in international wars. 3 semester hours
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3.00 Credits
An in-depth survey of political, cultural, social, and economic developments in America to 1760. Topics include Native American societies, founding the English colonies, the adoption of slavery, religious diversification, the consumer revolution, the French and Indian War, and changes in the family. 3 semester hours
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3.00 Credits
An in-depth survey of political, cultural, social, and economic developments in America from 1820 to 1860. Topics include the development of classes, party politics, slavery, changes in the family, westward expansion, sectionalism, and the origins of the Civil War. 3 semester hours
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3.00 Credits
An in-depth survey of political, cultural, social, and economic developments in America from 1861 to 1914. Topics include Civil War, Reconstruction, the Gilded Age, national growth and its impact on people of color, and Progressive Reform. 3 semester hours
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3.00 Credits
An in-depth survey of political, cultural, social, and economic developments in America from 1914 to 1945. Topics include the decline of Progressivism, cultural conflict in the 1920s, the Great Depression and the New Deal, and the home front during World War II. 3 semester hours
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3.00 Credits
An in-depth survey of political, cultural, social, and economic developments in America since 1945. Topics include the origins and development of the Cold War, McCarthyism, the rise of a counterculture, the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, and recent ideological conflict between liberalism and conservatism. 3 semester hours
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3.00 Credits
An investigation of selected episodes of violent racial conflict in American history, with particular emphasis on clashes between African Americans and white Americans. Students explore collective memory of the African slave trade, slave revolts, black military participation, lynchings, race riots, and violence during the civil rights movement. Sources include fiction, films, official records, oral histories, and historians' accounts. The course culminates in an oral history project on the civil rights demonstrations in 1960s Chester, Pennsylvania. 3 semester hours
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3.00 Credits
From the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire in 1911 to the "second shift" in the 1980s, this course examines experiences of working women and the nature of women's work in the United States in the 20th century. How have societal expectations for women shaped their paid and unpaid labor? How have class, ethnicity, and race impacted definitions of and women's experiences with work? Researching from both primary and secondary sources that describe a variety of work settings and occupations, students study the labor process and sexual division of labor, consider changes in the labor market and modes of managerial control, and debate the historical resilience of job segregation and the ideology of sex-typing. 3 semester hours
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