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3.00 Credits
The course will examine the historical sources of America's cultural and ethnic diversity. We will explore changes in "American" national identity and definitions of citizenship from the late 18th century to the present and the multiplicity of immigrant and migrant experiences. Prerequisites of HIS 3 and 4 or the permission of the instructor are required.
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The rise and development of American cities and suburbs from the late 18th century to the present. Will cover the growth of cities in the early national period, the separation of residential and work sites in the antebellum era, the commercialization of urban leisure, immigration, tenement housing, sweatshop labor and urban industries. Course will explore the impact of government policy on urban and suburban development, including post war federally-subsidized mortgages, federal support for the highways and suburbs, racialized urban renewal programs,public housing, white flight, racial steering and urban crises. Will pay particular attention to the tension between public and private ownership urban spaces. Prerequisites of HIS 3 and 4 or the permission of the instructor are required.
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3.00 Credits
Gender ideals and practices have varied widely in tandem with historical changes in society and culture. Students will analyze selected problems in the history of femininity and masculinity in the United States. Topics may include the family, sexuality, labor, race, and ethnicity, popular culture and ideology. Prerequisites of HIS 3 and 4 or the permission of the instructor are required.
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3.00 Credits
The trans-Mississippi West is a region that has a distinctive place in the American cultural imagination. This course will present students with diverse perspectives on the history of this region through the consideration of the topics such as frontiers and borderlands, nature and the environment, cultural diversity and conflict, competing visions of government, and the representation of the region in art and film. Prerequisite of HIS 3 or permission of the instructor is required.
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3.00 Credits
An historical examination of changes in the relationship between human beings and the natural environment from the colonial period to the present in different regions of the United States. The course will draw on the natural sciences, economics, public policy, philosophy, and popular culture in order to offer students a variety of perspectives on historically significant environmental issues. Prerequisite of HIS 3 or permission of the instructor is required.
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3.00 Credits
From the Boston Tea Partiers to abolitionists, from beatniks and hippies to hip hop artists and "riot girls," Americans have a reputation for being rebels. Sometimes roundly censured, sometimes read as the very spirit of American heroism, how does resistance shape our national experience of identity, of freedom? This course examines instances of American political rebellion - grassroots uprisings, slave revolts, prison riots, wildcat strikes and cultural rebellion - like the youth cultures of the Jazz Age and the Sixties, to the grunge and rap movements of the 1990s. Prerequisites of HIS 3 and 4 or the permission of the instructor are required.
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3.00 Credits
Examination of the rise of industrial capitalism in the 18th century, its spread over time and space to the recent "post-industrial" era. Will cover structural economic changes, role of government in American economic development , effects of commercialization on society, and historical critiques of capitalism. Will examine the ways capitalism altered the nature of work, gender and family relations. Others topics include the evolution of the division of labor, racial, gender, and segmentation of the workforce, labor struggles of the consumption, and the strategies of corporate power. Prerequisites of HIS 3 and 4 or the permission of the instructor are required.
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3.00 Credits
An exploration of the forms of popular culture that emerged in the nineteenth-century America in response to the rise of the industrial capitalism and democratic politics. Novel cultural forms developed to express new ideologies about manhood, womanhood, race, frontier, and empire. Course will analyze the birth of a commercialized popular culture that included museum exhibits, street amusements, pornography, burlesque, sports, genre paintings, daguerreotypes, photography, and "selfculture" movement. Will examine the emergence of narratives that captured popular imaginations, including sentimental novels, mysteries, and stories of scandal. Prerequisites of HIS 3 and 4 or the permission of the instructor are required.
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3.00 Credits
Traces the era in which American popular culture consolidated mass art/entertainment forms such as Hollywood films, jazz, rock and roll, rock and rap, radio and television programming, tabloid journalism, computer gaming, Internet entertainment. Topics include modern technologies, tensions between art and commerce, the role of outsider groups, especially Jews and African Americans, as well as gays,in the making of American pop culture, popular portrayals of the powerful and the marginal, the "culture of celebrity," the mainstreaming of erotica and pornography, and the extent to which popular culture caused, as opposed to reflected, changes in American social norms. Prerequisite of HIS 4 is required.
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3.00 Credits
While representing material space graphically has been a common human practice in virtually all times and places, the ways people have mapped and what they have chosen to represent as significant has varied enormously. In this World History course, students will study the mapping practices of such disparate peoples Australian Aborigines, Aztecs, and Ming Dynasty Chinese, and will examine the relationship between mapping and their larger cultures. Students will also study the development of modern mapping.
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