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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
A study of the causes and consequences of the Civil War, the struggles of the Reconstruction era, and the transformation of American society and politics in the period between 1850 and the end of Reconstruction.
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4.00 Credits
A study of the major political, social, economic, diplomatic, and intellectual developments in the late 19th century and early 20th century United States. Topics may include the rise of the United States as a world industrial power, settlement of the Great Plains, American imperialism, the struggle for women’s rights, conflicts over labor, and the Progressive era.
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4.00 Credits
A study of the causes and consequences of the Great Depression, U.S. involvement in World War II, and the advent of the Cold War. Explores the extent to which the challenges of the first half of the 20th century reshaped the United States socially, politically, economically, and culturally, particularly in regard to education, race, ethnicity, gender, and international political participation.
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4.00 Credits
A study of political, social, economic, diplomatic, and cultural change at home and in international affairs as the United States took on a greater role as a global superpower after World War II. Topics may include the Vietnam War, civil rights, student protest, environmental issues, international regional military interventions, feminism, the end of the Cold War, the new conservatism of the 1980s, and the concerns of terrorism.
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4.00 Credits
A study of African culture, social philosophy, and political influences in the United States from the pre-Colonial period until the Reagan administration. Major emphasis will be placed on black political philosophies and strategies during the periods of Reconstruction, WWI and WWII, the civil revolts of the 1960s, and the contemporary period of political activism.
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4.00 Credits
A regional history of the southeastern United States. The course examines the South from its Native American origins to its antebellum opulence; from the devastation of the Civil War to the development of the modern Sun Belt. An important subtheme of the class is the journey of African Americans from slavery to freedom.
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4.00 Credits
A regional history of the trans-Mississippi west. Major political, social, and economic events relating to the western United States are explored.
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4.00 Credits
Study of California history from the period of European contact through the early years of the 20th century. Special attention is given to the origins, means, and consequences of Spanish expansion into Alta California, to the emergence of Mexican California and its accelerated Americanization after the Treaty of Guadalupe- Hidalgo. The closing weeks of the course will include attention to themes that, though rooted in the earlier period, continue to shape present-day California. Among those themes are water policies, immigrations, and the consequences of California’s great size and its location on the Pacific.
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4.00 Credits
Develops a historical perspective on major political, economic, and social issues from the early 20th century invention of California through depression, war, and prosperity to the challenges of continuing growth and declining resources at century’s end.
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4.00 Credits
Selected review of the social history of the American peoples. Topics may include: social mobility, class structure, social movements, gender roles, race and ethnicity, generational differences, the “American Dream,” and individualism.
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