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3.00 Credits
This is an interdisciplinary history course examining the Latino experience in the United States after 1848. We will examine the major demographic, social, economic, and political trends of the past 150 years with an eye to understanding Latino/a America. Necessarily a large portion of the subject matter will focus on the history of Mexican Americans, and Mexican immigrants in the Southwest, and Midwestern United States, but we will also explore the histories of Puerto Ricans, Cubans, and Latin Americans within the larger Latino/a community. Latinos are US citizens and as such the course will spend significant time on the status of these groups before the law, and their relations with the state, at the federal, local, and community level. To explore these issues within the various Latino communities of the United States we will explore the following key topics: historical roots of Latinos/as in the US; the evolution of a Latino/a ethnicity and identity within the US; immigration, transmigration, and the shaping of Latino/a communities; Latino/a labor history; segregation; civil rights; nationalism and transnationalism; the Chicano Civil Rights Movement; Latinos in film; and post-1965 changes in Latino/a life. This is an education-general course.
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3.00 Credits
The course is a survey of women and religion in America during the 19th and 20th centuries. Among others, we will consider the following themes: how religion shaped women's participation in reform movements such as abolition, temperance, and civil rights; how religious ideology affected women's work, both paid and unpaid; the relationship between religion, race, and ethnicity in women's lives; female religious leaders; and feminist critiques of religion. We will examine women's role within institutional churches in the Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish traditions, as well as raise broader questions about gender and religious belief. How did religious belief affect women both as individuals and in community? How could religion be used to both reinforce and subvert prevailing gender ideology? This is an education-general course.
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3.00 Credits
This course is a survey of the history of American Catholic women from the colonial period to the present. Through a combination of lectures, reading and discussion, we will explore the following themes and topics: the role of religious belief and practice in shaping Catholics? understanding of gender differences; the experience of women in religious communities and in family life; women?s involvement in education and social reform; ethnic and racial diversity among Catholic women; devotional life; the development of feminist theology, and the emergence of the "new feminism" as articulated by Pope John Paul II. We will seek to understand how Catholic women, both lay and religious, contributed to the development of Church and nation, and examine how encounters with the broader American society have shaped Catholic women?s relationship to the institutional church over the last three centuries.
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3.00 Credits
This African-American history survey begins with an examination of West African origins and ends with the Civil War era. We will discuss the Atlantic slave trade, slavery in colonial America, the beginnings of African-American cultures in the North and South during and after the revolutionary era, slave resistance and rebellions, the political economy of slavery and resulting sectional disputes. Particular attention will be paid to northern free blacks.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an introductory survey of Mexican American history in the United States. Primarily focused on events after the Texas Revolution, and annexation of the American Southwest we will consider the problems the Spanish and Mexican settlers faced in their new homeland, as well as the mass migration of Anglo-Americans into the region following the annexation. Throughout the course, we will explore the changing nature of Mexican American U.S. citizenship. Other themes and topics examined will include immigration, the growth of agriculture in Texas and California, internal migration, urbanization, discrimination, segregation, language and cultural maintenance, and the development of a U.S. based Mexican American politics and culture. Although primarily focused on the American Southwest and California, this course also highlights the long history of Mexican American life and work in the Great Lakes and Midwestern United States. We will conclude with the recent history of Mexican and Latin-American migration to the United States after 1965, and the changing nature of Mexican American identity and citizenship within this context.
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3.00 Credits
With the recent 2008 presidential election there is a lot of excitement about the possibility of "change" and "reform" in our country. This class will provide perspective on our present historical moment by examining American reform movements of the past. It will focus on "the long nineteenth century" from the American Revolution to World War I. During this time optimistic Americans of various stripes set out to reform all sorts of things: religion, sex, eating and drinking, race and gender relations, education, and working and living conditions, to name just a few. As we look at these reform movements, we will ask the questions: What drove certain people to buck convention and seek reform? Why did they choose to focus on these particular reforms at these times? What did they believe would be the ultimate significance of the changes they were seeking? Why were some movements more successful than others?
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to the main issues and debates characterizing the anthropology of gender and explores how anthropologists have attempted to understand changing roles, sexual asymmetry, and stratification. This is an education-general course.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of three hundred years of African-American literature. This is an education-general course.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to the dynamics of the social and historical construction of race and ethnicity in American political life. The course explores the following core questions: What are race and ethnicity? What are the best ways to think about the impact of race and ethnicity on American citizens? What is the history of racial and ethnic formation in American political life? How do race and ethnicity link up with other identities animating political actions like gender and class? What roles do American political institutions--the Congress, presidency, judiciary, state and local governments, etc--play in constructing and maintaining these identity categories? Can these institutions ever be used to overcome the points of division in American society? This is an education-general course.
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3.00 Credits
Education sits high on the public policy agenda. We are living in an era of innovations in education policy, with heated discussion surrounding issues such as vouchers, charter schools, and the No Child Left Behind Act. This course introduces students to the arguments for and against these and other educational innovations, and does so through the lens of how schools affect the civic health of the nation. Often forgotten amidst debates over school choice and standardized testing is the fact that America's schools have a civic mandate to teach young people how to be engaged citizens. Students in this course will grapple with the civic implications of America's educational landscape, and have an opportunity to propose ways to improve the civic education provided to young people.
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