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3.00 Credits
A survey of the decorative arts in the United States from the seventeenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. In addition to considering style and production techniques, this course will investigate the social and cultural context within which such works were created and displayed.
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3.00 Credits
An investigation of the political, social, and intellectual evolution of the Russian Empire in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the challenges to and overthrow of the Romanov rule, the rise and fall of the Soviet Union, and the creation of the new Russia since 1991. It explores political, social and cultural issues.
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3.00 Credits
An analysis of the diplomatic and political struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union in the aftermath of the Second World War and the ideological conflict between free enterprise and communism around the world.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of the experiences of African Americans in the United States beginning with Antebellum slavery, the Civil War and Reconstruction, turn of the century America, the Civil Rights movement, and their continuing struggle to attain true equality in American society. This course will examine these topics primarily through the exploration of key political and autobiographical texts, including the works of David Walker, Frederick Douglass, Anna Julia Cooper, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Marcus Garvey, Maya Angelou, Malcom X, Assata Shakur, and Elaine Brown, among others.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of the major trends, events, and persons in early American history. This course will begin with a comparison of native and European cultures in the New World and end with the establishment of the United States.
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3.00 Credits
From its founding to the present day, the U.S. has been noted for the strength of its reform movements. Whether they were striving to end drinking, prostitution, political corruption, or slavery, to achieve rightts for women or minorities, to stop unpopular wars, or to usher in a Christian or socialist utopia, reform-minded Americans have banded together to try to achieve political and social change. In this course, we will consider the membership, motives, rhetoric, tactics and consequences of social movements.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of the American Union from the writing and ratification of the Constitution through its disruption in the Civil War and reconstruction thereafter. Primarily through discussion of current historical works, the course analyzes such topics as the differences between North and South and the social impact of evangelicalism and slavery, as well as the political history of the era.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the development of the American city with special focus upon changes in land-use patterns, social class arrangements, political organization, social mobility and migration, ecological patterns, industrial and commercial development, transformation of the built environment, and the creation of a national urban policy.
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3.00 Credits
Explores themes in American history from the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson to the onset of the Great Depression. In addition to lectures, extensive reading in both contemporary works and the most recent historical writings is offered.
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