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4.00 Credits
(Also POL 239) 4 hours; 4 credits The course focuses on the civil and military aspects of the Civil War, including the events and issues leading up to the war, the struggle over the expansion of slavery, the Union’s and the Confederacy’s military strategies,and analysis of key battles. The course will examine the presidency of Lincoln and will explore major constitutional issues, such as the right of secession and the problems of maintaining civil liberties during a civil war. Prerequisites: ENG 111, COR 100
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4 hours; 4 credits Popular entertainment as the expression of American cultural values: television, radio, music, and sports; westerns, detective stories, and soap operas. Functional analysis of entertainment as the myth and ritual of mass society. The problems of aesthetic standards in a culture dominated by commercialized taste. Relationships between popular entertainment and political values. Readings from Durkheim, Ellul, McLuhan, Nye, and Browne. (arts & com.) Prerequisite: ENG 111
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4.00 Credits
4 hours; 4 credits Humor in America shares some characteristics found in all cultures, past and present, and sometimes has seemed peculiarly “native.’’ This courstraces the variety and development of American humor from colonial days to the present through literature, drama, art, cartoons, and film. Humor will be examined as psychological phenomenon, as philosophical outlook, and as intellectual history. (literature) Prerequisite: ENG 111
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4.00 Credits
(Also HST 240) 4 hours; 4 credits A major idea in American intellectual history will be examined from the perspective of two or more disciplines. This course will demonstrate the interdisciplinary method and philosophy of American Studies. Puritanism, transcendentalism, the idea of freedom, social Darwinism, Freudianism, and socialism are possible topics. (social science) Prerequisites: ENG 111, and COR 100 or AMS 101 or any history course.
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4.00 Credits
4 hours; 4 credits A major artistic theme will be traced through two or more of the American arts. This course will demonstrate the interdisciplinary method and philosophy of American Studies. Realism and romanticism, functionalism and formalism, naturalism and the genteel tradition, and organic form are possible topics. (arts & com.) Prerequisites: ENG 111 and COR 100
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4.00 Credits
(Also HST 258) 4 hours; 4 credits An examination of the history of American involvement in Vietnam, the experience of Americans and Vietnamese who fought the Second Indochina war and its effects on American society. For History majors and minors, this is designated as a United States history course. (social science) Prerequisites: ENG 111, COR 100 or any college-level history course
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4.00 Credits
(Also ART 308) 4 hours; 4 credits The course will examine the development of American art since World War II. Prerequisite: ART/AMS 209 or AMS 212 or ART 307 or permission of the instructor
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4.00 Credits
4 hours; 4 credits A senior seminar for American Studies majors who will do independent research on a common theme of the American experience and meet to discuss and analyze their findings. Examples of such topics are Puritan religion, the frontier, slavery, reform, feminism, big business, radicalism, literary naturalism, imperialism, and popular culture. Prerequisite: A 200-level American studies course.
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4.00 Credits
(Also HST 335) 4 hours; 4 credits Major artistic and intellectual developments in America from the 18th century to the present, and their relationship to changing social and political realities. For History majors and minors, this is designated as a United States history course. Prerequisites: Any 200-level history course or any 200-level American studies course and ENG 151
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits An overview of human physical and social evolution, and the range of diversity in contemporary human societies. The development of language and communication; tribal and peasant societies in the modern world; ethnicity, race and gender; migration and urbanization. (social science)
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