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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course offers an analysis of the forces which have shaped American industrialization, focusing on the impact of unionization, the development of big business, and their impact on the everyday lives of Americans from pre-industiral craftsmen to industrial workers.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of major movements in thought and culture including religion, science, the arts, and philosophy, including moral, ploitical, and economic thought.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the contemporary United States with particular emphasis on its emergence as a leader of the free world and the increasing role of government in the social and economic life of the nation.
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3.00 Credits
A study of American individualism as demonstrated in the writings of politicians, novelists, political theorists, and others who have dealt with this important aspect of American culture.
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3.00 Credits
Is nature to be tamed or protected? How have Americans responded to the incredible and at first untamed natural bounty that greeted them? What impact have these natural surroundings had on development of the American character? These are some of the issues dealt with in this course.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of the various topics and interpretations of American foreign relations to WWI. This is a study of the nation's rise to world power and the internal and external conflicts that resulted.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the relations between the United States and its neighbors to the south since the Monroe Doctrine and including an examination of the Roosevelt Corollary, the Good Neighbor Policy, the Alliance for Progress, and the problematic relationship with Cuba and other Latin American countries.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on U.S.-Mexican relations since the 19th century and covers the Texas rebellion and annexation, the U.S.-Mexican War, American economic penetration during the Porfiriato, U.S. military intervention in the Mexican Revolution, the expropriation of American-owned lands and oil companies in the 1930s, Mexican migration to and repatriation from the U.S., the Mexican foreign debt crisis, the narcotics trade, NAFTA, and the Mexican immigrant community in the United States. Different themes, including imperialism, ethnocentrism, dependency, non-intervention, great power-weak state relations, and the domestic forces that shape bilateral relations, will be addressed. The class will revolve around student presentations and class-wide discussions of weekly reading assignments.
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3.00 Credits
Located on opposite sides of the Pacific Ocean, East Asia and the United States historically played important roles in each other's life. This course examines the complex relationship between American and East Asian countries, covering the economic, cultural, political, and military aspects of the interaction.
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3.00 Credits
This course investigates changes in China during the 20th century, with a focus on the Chinese communist movement. Topics examined include the meaning of revolution in the Chinese context; ideology, causes, events, and personalities of the Chinese revolution; consequences and impact of the revolutionary movement.
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