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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Examines the history and culture of mass consumerism in the United States. Topics include the shift from mass production to mass consumption; the growth of advertising and product marketing; the rise of the department store and shopping mall; the relationship of race, ethnicity, and gender to the market; globalization; and anticonsumerism.
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Lecture, 3 hours; outside research, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Examines the intellectual and political sources of the Constitution in English, colonial, and revolutionary war history; the Philadelphia convention and the debate over ratification; the formative impact of the Marshall court; and the crisis over slavery and the nature of the Union. Discusses the role of the court in protecting U.S. capitalism and then examines the court's role in legitimizing the New Deal by 1953. The main materials of the course are the actual opinions of the court.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; outside research, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Examines constitutional history after the New Deal settlement of issues concerning the powers of the national government. Explores the court's focus after 1953 on the struggle over racial and gender equality and on the expansion and protection of individual liberties contained in the Bill of Rights. The main materials of the course are the major court opinions from the Warren to the Rehnquist courts, 1953- 2001.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; term paper, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor; HIST 017A is recommended. An introduction to religious beliefs and practices during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in the colonies that became the United States. Cross-listed with RLST 137A.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; term paper, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor; HIST 017B is recommended. An introduction to a variety of religious traditions, movements, and cultures from 1800 to the present in the United States. Cross-listed with RLST 137B.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; individual study, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): ECON 002 (or ECON 002H), ECON 003; or ECON 004. Covers the economic history of the United States from colonial times to the present. Cross-listed with ECON 123.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Introduction to the history of work, workers and their families, communities, organizations, unions, and workers' organizations in the United States from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Attention is paid to gender, race, immigration, and diversity of the work force, and role of government, within an economic and international context.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; term paper, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Introduction to issues of gender, sex, and sexuality in the culture of early America. Based on both primary and secondary literature. Cross-listed with WMST 130.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Covers topics in early American women's lives-work, politics, and sexuality-while charting thedevelopments of gendered systems in the United States. Topics may include masculinity, the rise of the middle class, and the private-public dichotomy. Crosslisted with WMST 132.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; outside research, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Introduces students to major themes in the history of U.S. women and gender issues. Drawing upon recent work in the field, it explores the relationships between gendered meanings of politics and the politics of gender in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries in the United States. Cross-listed with WMST 133.
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