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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course is a survey of the history of African Americans, beginning with an examination of their West African origins and ending with the Civil War era. We will discuss the 14th and 15th centuries, West African kingdoms, forms of domestic slavery and West African cultures, the Atlantic slave trade, early slave societies in the Caribbean, 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, and the significance of "bloody Kansas" and the Civil War.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the personalities, style, policies, and performances of American presidents from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Bill Clinton as they developed the modern American presidency and made it the most important elective office in the world.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of the intellectual history of Britain and English-speaking America from around 1600 to the mid-19th century, including European backgrounds and contexts. Emphasis on writings about religion, government, natural science, education, and human nature.
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3.00 Credits
This course will explore the history of youth and youth movements of Latino descent in the United States during the 20th century with particular emphasis on the historical evolution of two representative communities: Mexican Americans in the South West and Puerto Ricans in New York. How was youth discovered and defined as an age group in these two ¿communities¿? More specifically, what did it mean to be a ¿pelona¿ or a ¿flapper¿ of Mexican descent during the roaring 1920s, a ``pachuco¿ in East Los Angeles during WWII, a ¿rebel without a cause¿ of Puerto Rican descent in postwar New York, a young Chicano/a or a young Mexican American during the 1960s and 1970s, a young Nuyorican or a member of the Young Lords Movement in Spanish Harlem in the same turbulent period, a so-called ¿cholo¿ in the streets of San Antonio and Los Angeles during the 1980s, or a Latino/a hip-hop artist in the Bronx and Miami during the 1990s? Did young people construct these identities and/or labels different in any way or fashion, as the media, the state, the conservative right, the left, or the cultural industry? Moreover, what were some of the social and political consequences that negative as well as positive perceptions of Latino/a youth had on mainstream America? Finally, how did young people of Latin American descent organize politically to challenge `labels¿ imposed on them from above, shape their respective identities from below, and improve their local communities? Were they successful in achieving their goals; if so, how? To answer these broad historical questions, students will be asked to critically evaluate theoretical approaches to the study of youth, learn the history of Latino/as in the United States, explore the political thought of various youth movements, and examine different aesthetic expressions of Latino/a youth. In addition, students will be required to analyze relevant primary sources, including political manifestoes, memoirs, newspapers accounts, photographs, television images, documentaries, and films. The course will conclude with a brief exploration of youth culture in the United States today with particular emphasis on media representations of Latino/a youth produced in commercial Hollywood films, MTV videos, and Television shows.
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3.00 Credits
This course will examine the history of paid and unpaid labor in the United States from colonial times to the near present. We will seek to understand how working people both shaped--and were shaped by--the American Revolution, the debates over slavery and free labor culminating in the Civil War and Reconstruction, the rise of big business, the creation of a national welfare state, the Cold War-era repression of the Left, and continuing debates over the meanings of work, citizenship, and democracy. Throughout the course, we will devote considerable time to the organizations workers created to advance their own interests, namely the labor movement. We will also pay special attention to the complicated yet crucial connections between work and racial and gender identities. Specific topics may include slavery, farm labor, women's domestic work, trade unions, questions of industrial democracy, the role of radicalism, and the challenges confronting workers in the current era of corporate globalization and anti-sweatshop activism.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the emergence of the modern American peace movement between the two World Wars and its development in the Nuclear Age since World War II. It examines the shifting patterns of support for the peace movement, the curious ways Americans have searched and worked for peace, and some of the important peace groups and leaders.
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3.00 Credits
This course will survey the history of African Americans from 1865 to 1980. Specifically, this course will focus on the problems of Reconstruction in the South after the Civil War, the adjustments and reactions of African Americans to freedom, the economic exploitation of sharecropping, northern black communities at the end of the 19th century, the migration of black Southerners to northern urban areas, black political leadership, the Civil Rights Movement, current examples of institutional racism, and affirmative action in America.
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3.00 Credits
The purpose of this course is to study the political, diplomatic, economic, social, and cultural development of the United States from 1945 through the presidency of Ronald Reagan. Although the military and diplomatic history of World War II will be considered by way of background, the principal topics of investigation will be the Fair Deal Program of President Truman, the Cold War, the Korean Conflict, the Eisenhower Presidency, the New Frontier, Vietnam, President Johnson's Great Society, the Civil Rights Movement, the Nixon years, the social and intellectual climate of this postwar era, and the presidencies of Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan.
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3.00 Credits
Through discussion and lectures, students examine the emergence of a recognizably modern United States. Topics examined will include the emergence of the corporation, progressive reforms, the changing contours of American religion, the character of the New South, the battle for women's suffrage, developments in the arts, and American involvement in the First World War.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the myths and realities of media in the American past and present, paying particular attention to the ways in which old media and new have combined to change our lives, and the ways different groups of Americans have used various media to make history.
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