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3.00 Credits
3-0-3 (Eff. FL21) In this course, students examine the recent past to understand the roots of comtemporary phenomena such as the nation-state, international law, social movements, and global networks of trade and technology. Students identify and interpret archival materials and primary sources, with a focus on themes, patterns, processes, and events from the sixteenth century onward.
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3.00 Credits
3-0-3 In this course, students will study the historical relationship between human beings and the food they consume, as well as the social institutions that have evolved around the production and consumption of food across cultures and time periods.
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3.00 Credits
3-0-3 Analyzing the Latino story in terms of race, gender and class, this course weaves the too little known story of Latino Americans into the history of the United States. Some of the time periods and movements analyzed include the 16th century conquest, colonization, 19th century expansion, the Great Depression, World War II, Post war society, the Civili Rights movement, and late 20th and early 21st century immigration. For this course, the term, "Latinios" includes people from the Caribbean, Central and South America, Mexico and Belize.
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3.00 Credits
3-0-3 A historical, conceptual survey of the origins and development of American health care from colonial America to the contemporary health care issues of the United States.
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3.00 Credits
3-0-3 Capitalism is the dominant system of economic organization in the world today. Students will examine its origins, its development, its critics and its alternatives. In doing so, they will draw upon the fields of business history, labor history, political economy, and the history of economic thought, while applying lessons from these fields to contemporary economic problems.
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3.00 Credits
3-0-3 This course places the themes of race, ethnicity, gender, class, and religion in an historical context from pre-Columbian America through colonial and revolutionary North America and into the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It strives to be culturally inclusive and intellectually encompassing, emphasizing the actual experiences of ordinary citizens as well as those of extraordinary individuals.
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3.00 Credits
3-0-3 (Eff. FL21) This course examines the origins, beliefs, practices and cultural significance of religious traditions and movements in American history, including but not limited to Native American religious traditions, Protestantdenominations, Roman Catholicism, Judasism, Islam, African American religions, and religious movements founded in the United States such as The Church of jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) and the Seventh-Day Adventists. Close reading and interpretive analysis ofprimary texts constitute the major course activities.
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3.00 Credits
3-0-3 Students in this course will study Philadelphia's physical and social development from William Penn's initial founding through the 21st Century. The course will focus on interpretation of the city's physical design as an expression of social, demographic and political contexts, technological advances and new materials, and evolving construction techniques of each significant historical period. Students participate in field trips and other onsite experiences that take place in various sections of the city.
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3.00 Credits
3-0-3 Making use of primary texts, this course surveys the social, cultural and political history of African Americans from enslavement through the Civil War and the post-war period, Reconstruction. Beginning in West Africa, the course examines three centuries of North American slavery, as well as the initial experiences of African Americans with emancipation and the promises of Reconstruction.
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3.00 Credits
3-0-3 This course surveys the cultural, social and political history of African Americans after the Civil War. Especially through close reading of primary texts, the course examines the experiences of African Americans during emancipation, urbanization, and the Modern Civil Rights and Black Power eras. Prereqs: None.
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