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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
The course examines the history of American cities since the colonial period to the present day. It will investigate the history of U.S. cities from multiple perspectives, including industrialization, migration, globalization, suburbanization, race, gender, class, and the environment.
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Immigration to the U.S., with an emphasis on comparing the experiences of European, African, Latin American, and Asian immigrants. Topics will include immigrants' lives, work, and communities; assimilation and cultural persistence; and the development of U.S. immigration policy.
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3.00 Credits
The course examines the relationship between cities and suburbs. It analyzes metropolitan areas across regions and tine, challenging traditional notions of postwar America. Utilizing historical monographs, novels, films, and more, topics range from Levittown to Columbine, beat culture to hip hop, development to redevelopment.
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The development of American military strategy and tactics. Focus on Civil War, World War I, and World War II.
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3.00 Credits
American foreign policy from F.D.R. to Nixon and its effects on Vietnam, American domestic policy and the growth of the National Security State.
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3.00 Credits
Examines how private citizens, writers, politicians, business, the media and popular culture have defined America since 1776, how the definitions have changed over time, and the impact of race, ethnicity, gender, and class on the definitions.
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3.00 Credits
The course explores the interrelationship and interdependencies of human development and the environment. Topics include Native American and colonial land use practices, capitalism and nature, industrialization, urban environments, ethics, nature as leisure, and environmental politics.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the historical development of a consumer culture and its effects. Topics include the roots of consumer culture; the role of the industrial revolution; the development of marketing; and how consumption altered American life and culture in the 20th century.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the complexities and nuances of modern Mexican society within a historical context sensitive to structural changes in both the global economy and Mexico's political culture. The course historicizes contemporary political, social, and economic phenomena by evaluating changes and continuities in the Mexican experience since the late 19th century
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3.00 Credits
American religion from the Puritans to the present as set in the larger social, economic and cultural context.
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