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Using the writings of African Americans during the era of slavery (1750 to 1860), content considers black protest thought in an historical perspective. Students use primary documents to discover the feelings of hope, fear, and frustration of free and enslaved blacks of this time. 3 CREDIT S
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Writings of African Americans from the Civil War to the present are the focus of this confrontation with the realities of the black experience and thought in American perspective. Students use primary documents to examine black history and culture. 3 CREDIT S
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Course focuses on the modern Civil Rights movement through the mediums of biography and film. Students learn to critically evaluate these historical sources as they explore basic issues, players, events, and ideologies of the Civil Rights movement. 3 CREDIT S
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Course tracks the growing importance of Hispanics in all aspects of American life. Their economic impact has become a topic of controversy. The development of a Latino ethnic consciousness has come into conflict with efforts to assimilate this minority group, thus raising the question of what an American really is. Instruction also addresses the controversial topic of their impact on the U.S. economy. These issues cannot be fully understood without an examination of where Hispanics have come from, their hopes, ways they are trying to achieve their dreams, and their continuing obstacles. 3 CREDIT S
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Course examines the history of sports in the U.S., from the informal games of the colonial period to the highly organized, often commercial, contests of the present. Students study the impact of industrialization and urbanization on the development of the nation's tradition and explore issues of race, ethnicity, and gender in relation to social, political, cultural, and economic interests. 3 CREDIT S
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Course studies workers and their communities in the U.S. in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Students explore the impact of industrialization, technological change, immigration, migration, ethnicity, race, gender, and unionization as they examine the development of the American working class. 3 CREDIT S
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Course traces and documents changes of the 1960s, an era that has quickly become covered in myth despite its nearness to our own times. The period from the election of John F. Kennedy (1960) to the fall of Saigon (1975) remains crucial for an understanding of current issues and attitudes. Those years reshaped American culture and society in many ways. Vivid events and slogans shattered the images of an earlier time and created a new America. Course goal is to trace and document these changes. 3 CREDIT S
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Class examines the interaction between families, communities, and the greater society throughout U.S. history. In so doing, course illuminates how we as individuals and as members of family, ethnic, and social groups have become what we are. 3 CREDIT S
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This course uses current headlines from the sports' page to engage students in the study of the origins and development of critical issues in the history of organized sport since the late 19th century. Through focused assigned readings and self-directed research, students will participate in intra-class debates on the historic roots of some of the most divisive questions facing modern sport today. Possible topics: Andrew Doubleday myth; origins of the National League; banning of baseball players; the origin and demise of the Negro Leagues; integration of sport; performance enhancing drugs; the illusion of the student-athlete; mascots; athletic elitism and amateurism; women in sport, pre and post Title IX, etc. 3 CREDIT S PREREQUISITES: 49-1602 U.S. HISTORY: FROM 1877 OR 50-1514 SOCIOLOGY OF SPORTS IN THE UNITED STATES OR 49-2656 HISTORY OF SPORT IN THE U.S.
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A study of the American past through the humor and satire of the political cartoon. Humor is a political tool. Making fun of one's opponents is a way of weakening their position. We make fun of that which we oppose, but also of that which we fear. Cartoons illuminate all aspects of the American past: from political battles in Congress to battles on the streets; from gender clashes at home to racial clashes in the workforce. 3 CREDIT S
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