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4.00 Credits
This course analyzes the causes and consequences of America's development as a world power. Topics to be considered include the rise of an American diplomatic tradition during the colonial/Revolutionary era, nineteenth century continental expansion, and the evolution of American internationalism in the twentieth century. Primary emphasis is given to twentieth century developments. Meets general academic requirement H (and W which applies to 322 only).
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4.00 Credits
This course traces the evolution and application of constitutional theories and concepts from our English forebears to the US today. The great controversies which reached the Supreme Court are examined in light of contemporary political and cultural values and of their enduring national importance. Meets general academic requirement H (and W which applies to 324 only).
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4.00 Credits
This course, emphasizing the post1860 period, examines both the roots of American economic growth and the impact that growth has had on American ideas, culture, and institutions. Topics to be considered include the rise of big business, changes in the internal structure of the business establishment, the development of a corporate culture, shifting attitudes of government toward business, and the state of the modern American economy. Meets general academic requirement H (and W which applies to 326 only).
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4.00 Credits
Women, whether as daughters, wives, mothers, workers, scholars, or political activists, have played pivotal roles in American history. This course, an overview of American women's history from colonial times to the present, examines the variety of women's experiences through time by analyzing the myriad roles they played in the family, society, economy, and national politics. Specifically, using gender as its primary lens of analysis, this course seeks to uncover the broader contexts of American women's experience by examining the dynamic interplay of women and men, values and culture, and discussing how structures of power linked especially to gender, but also to class and race, shaped women's lives and mediated their experiences in the private and public worlds of America. Meets general academic requirement H (and W which applies to 328 only).
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4.00 Credits
This course will explore the role that military combat has played in American history. Its primary focus will be on the American Revolution, the Civil War, World War I and II, and Vietnam. Students will discuss the causes of America's wars, the primary military operations involved in each, and the impact each had on American society. Extensive reading and writing, independent thinking, and wideopen class discussions will be the highlights of the course. Meets general academic requirement H (and W which applies to 334 only).
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4.00 Credits
An environmental history of the United States from the English settlement to the present. An examination of the ideas and attitudes that shaped human impact on and interaction with the land and the environment. The course will also explore the influence of legislation, judicial decisions, and governmental policy upon the environment. In addition, the course will examine landuse patterns and their significant changes over the past 400 years. The readings will emphasize relevant primary writings and recent scholarship. Meets general academic requirement H (and W which applies to 342 only).
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4.00 Credits
This course focuses on the complex interplay of disease and medicine in the context of American culture and society over the last two centuries. It will examine the changing concepts of disease, the increasing success with which medicine has healed the body, and the development of the medical professions from the late eighteenth century to the present. It will also explore the ways in which Americans have employed diseases as social and cultural metaphors. Meets general academic requirement H (and W which applies to 346 only).
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4.00 Credits
This course will explore the history of public health in America from the late seventeenth century to the present. It will examine the history of medical crises that evoked a public health response, including the development of formal institutions of public health and the environmental, industrial, and social aspects of public health in the contexts of the changing medical, political, and social environments of the United States. Topics to be considered include epidemic diseases, environmental problems, industrial medicine, social issues such as smoking, and the development of departments of public health on the local, state, and national level. Meets general academic requirement H (and W which applies to 348 only).
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4.00 Credits
Much of the history we read is written by the winners of past conflicts. This course examines major events in America's past, such as the ratification of the Constitution, the sectional conflict of the antebellum era, and the industrialization of the late nineteenth century, from the perspective of the losers in those conflicts. We will consider the criticisms made by the losers and their alternatives to determine how different the United States might have been had they prevailed. Meets general academic requirement H (and W which applies to 358 only).
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4.00 Credits
This course will examine the three major groups of Latinos in this country-Cubans, Mexicans, and Puerto Ricans. It will examine the history of U.S. relations with each of these countries and the historical reasons for immigration. We will also study the experiences of the new arrivals and their economic, social, and political participation in U.S. society and issues such as racial, linguistic, and ethnic identity. In addition, students will have the opportunity to use the city of Allentown, which has a Latino population of close to 25 percent, as a living laboratory. Meets general academic requirement D or H (and W which applies to 362 only).
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