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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This survey will consider the development of Europe in the first half of the 20th Century. Specifically, it will look at how this period was characterized by unprecedented violence, culminating in civil and global war, revolution, and genocide. The focus of the course will be on World War I and World War II, examining not only the political and military cost of global warfare, but also understanding the human and psychological cost of world conflict and its implications for the remainder of the century.
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3.00 Credits
Focuses on the economic, social, political and cultural position of women in Great Britain and Western Europe from mid-eighteenth century to the present. Examines industrial society's impact on women in the workplace, within the family, and in the political sphere.
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3.00 Credits
The development of American foreign policy and its relationship to social, economic, political, and cultural forces.
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3.00 Credits
Describes and analyzes the many ways in which World War I and World War II changed the United States, including the country's role in world affairs, wartime mobilization, the expansion of government, the revolution in manners and morals, the great depression, the baby boom, the GI Bill, the expansion of higher education, civil rights, the role of women in American life, the cold war, scientific research, the nuclear age, and much more. (This course also fulfills the Behavioral Ways of Knowing requirement).
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3.00 Credits
Explores the similarities and differences between the two great reform movements of the first half of the twentieth century: the Progressive Era and the New Deal. Topics include the settlement house movement, women's suffrage, prohibition, the social gospel, political reform, problems of the city, "normalcy" and the critics of progressivism, the progressive education movement, the influence of movies and the radio, the Great Depression, the rise of entitlements and the welfare state, the realignment of political parties, the emergence of the modern presidency and its critics, and the New York World's Fair of 1939. 11
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3.00 Credits
Examines the great upheavals in American life during the 1960s and early 1970s and their on-going consequences. Topics include the baby boom, hippies, the counterculture, the new left, the sexual revolution, women's liberation, changing family patterns, civil rights, the revival of ethnic consciousness, the Vietnam War, suburbanization, political correctness, multiculturalism, the renewal of conservatism, the moral majority, casual dress, the reassertion of Congressional authority, and fears of American decline.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the development and experiences of the African American community during the age of slavery. We will focus on the development of African American culture and an in-depth examination of the slave community, family, and religion. The course considers the growth of the free black community and the creation of black political, social, and economic ideologies and institutions. Particular topics include the struggle against slavery, slave insurrections, the abolitionist movement, and the Civil War.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the development of the African American community in the United States since emancipation. We will chronologically and thematically explore the process of reconstruction, segregation, disenfranchisement, migration, and urbanization and the rise of African American protest organizations, black nationalism, the Harlem Renaissance, and the modern day civil rights movement. Special attention will be given to the social, economic, political, religious, and cultural forces inside and outside of the African American community that have helped shape the course of African American history.
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3.00 Credits
As one of the original English settlements and then as one of the first states in the Union, Pennsylvania boasts a history that extends from the colonial period to the present. This course will look at Pennsylvania as a microcosm of American life and will examine such issues as Native American cultures, ethnic diversity and ethnic conflict, social stratification, geography,architecture, religious history, political development, revolution and civil war, agriculture, industrialization, urbanization, and suburbia.
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3.00 Credits
History Topics A & B each
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