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3.00 Credits
3 credits. This course examines the role nature plays in North America's history. Students will explore how natural forces shape history, how humankind affects nature, and then how those ecological changes reciprocally affect human life once again. Topics addressed include the familiar (the industrial revolution, slavery and the Civil War) and the less well-known (soil fertility, fast food and garbage). Prerequisite: HIST 395 or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits. This seminar examines what contemporaries called the Labor Problem, from the strikes of 1877 to the accord between GM and the UAW in 1948. It explores the impact of industrialization, race and gender, consumerism, the New Deal and two world wars on the lives of American workers and their unions.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits. An interpretive study of the United States from the conclusion of the Civil War until the assassination of William McKinley with special emphasis on industrialization, urbanization, western and overseas expansion, early reform movements, and politics. Prerequisite: HIST 395. Instructor's permission required to waive HIST 395 prerequisite for non-history majors.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits. An interpretive study of U.S. history from the rise of Theodore Roosevelt through the 1920s. Emphasis is placed on the reform movements of the period and the problems and issues generated by the nation's emergence as a world power and an industrial, urban society. Prerequisite: HIST 395. Instructor's permission required to waive HIST 395 prerequisite for non-history majors.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits. An interpretive study of U.S. history from the onset of the Great Depression in 1929 through the inauguration of John Kennedy in 1961. Emphasis is given to the New Deal, World War II and the early years of the Cold War. Prerequisite: HIST 395. Instructor's permission required to waive HIST 395 prerequisite for non-history majors.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits. An interpretive study of U.S. history from the inauguration of John Kennedy in 1961 through the present. Emphasis is given to the Kennedy-Johnson administrations, Vietnam, the counterculture and student movement, Watergate, and the Reagan years. Prerequisite: HIST 395. Instructor's permission required to waive HIST 395 prerequisite for non-history majors.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits. Latin America and the Caribbean were the first and largest parts of the Western Hemisphere to be populated by Africans. Afro-Latin America examines cultural formations Africans brought to these regions. Beginning with an overview of the slave trade, it examines the histories of Africans and African-descent people throughout Latin America, as well as contemporary Afro-Latin American culture(s). Prerequisites: One course in either Latin American or Africana studies (any discipline); upper-division status or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits. Selected topics are studied in depth. See e-campus for current topic. Course may be repeated for credit when content changes. Prerequisite: HIST 395. Instructor's permission required to waive HIST 395 prerequisite for non-history majors.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits. This course will explore the theoretical and methodological questions that have been raised in the field of oral history related to evidence and objectivity, personal and collective memory, narrative structure, ethics and social justice. Throughout the course students will conduct multiple interviews in the Shenandoah Valley and prepare a final presentation based on this material. Prerequisite: HIST 395 or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits. This seminar examines the sociotechnical history of twentieth century American. It employs several analytical frameworks to examine the complex relationship between social and technological change, casting particular attention on the mass production ethos, the social meanings of everyday household technologies, the nuclear age, the space age, countercultural technology and the high tech age. Prerequisite: HIST 395. Instructor's permission required to waive HIST 395 prerequisite for non-history majors.
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