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3.00 Credits
The course surveys developments in American social, political, and economic life since 1900.Major themes include problems of advanced industrial society, the growing government role in the economy, America's growing role in the world, and social movements of the 1930s and 1960s.Ethnic and cultural diversity within American society receive attention .The course meets the U.S. diversity requirement. (Prerequisite: HI 30) Three credits.
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Little fanfare and much derision accompanied the re-emergence of a women's movement in the mid-1960s.Within less than a decade, massive changes were underway.From the dismantling of gendered employment ads to the identification of domestic violence as a crime, few argued that Second Wave Feminism was meaningless.Students in this course discuss the depth and range of women's grass roots activism as well as the features of a social movement; they trace the development of consciousness, the growth of different ideologies, and the formation of agendas.The course also explores movement fault lines such as the fictive category of woman, racism, and "structurelessness," in addition to the difficulties of sustaining coalition.From the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955 to the Houston Conference 22 years later, students encounter the women who illuminated the political nature of issues once relegated to the private arena.Course material includes extensive use of autobiogra phy.This course meets the U.S. diversity requiremen t. (Prerequisite: HI 30) Three credit
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This course, offered by two historians who specialize in 20th-century American history, explores the 1960s from the dual perspectives of history and the arts.Political and artistic change happened concurrently in this era, and was often instigated by people who promoted societal change via the creation of art.The course approaches the period as "the long '60s," beginning in the early 1950s and ending in 1975 with the U.S.withdrawal of forces from Vietnam.Class sessions combine lecture, discussion, and experiential events as a means of understanding how art and activism worked hand-in-hand.Students may choose to take this course for either visual and performing art or history core credit.Also listed as TA 2 41.This course meets the U.S. diversity requiremen t. Three credits
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This course covers the origins of the American constitutional tradition, the manifold heritage of the American Revolution, Jeffersonian republicanism and federal judicial power, nationalism and the centralization of the Marshall court, the reaction on the Taney court, slavery and sectionalism, the Civil War, Reconstruction, the Second American Constitution, and the Gilded Age turn in American law.(Prerequisite: HI 30) Three credits.
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This course examines the latter portion of the Fuller court, Imperialism and the Constitution, governmental efforts to restore economic competition, the police power, economic reform, progressivism, the tradition of national supremacy, new turns in civil liberties, the New Deal and the old Supreme Court, civil rights and the incorporation theory of the 14th amendment, and new roads back to legal conservatism.(Prerequisite: HI 30) Three credits.
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Participants study feminism based on the premise that it is a multi-faceted struggle for women's autonomy and self-determination.The course focuses largely on the United States, birthplace of the first organized women's movement; however, it periodically expands its view beyond the United States for purposes of comparison.Students analyze the development of the feminist movement as well as feminist theory during the 19th and 20th centuries and explore the discourse on gender mediated by race and class, and its impact on women's lives.Using primary and secondary sources, students work toward a historical definition of feminism.Formerly listed as HI 1 43.This course meets the U.S. diversity requirement . (Prerequisite: HI 30) Three credits
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This course surveys American women's history from the colonial era to the present, exploring the impact as well as the interdependence of gender, race, and class on experience.Although the term social history describes the course approach, it uses biography to illuminate key issues and enrich student perspectives.Through careful examination of primary and secondary sources, the course pursues two themes: the interplay of gender constructs through the myths and realities of women's lives, and the crucial role women played in transforming public and private space.The course views women as agents whose testimony and actions are vital to understanding our history.Formerly listed as HI 14 2.This course meets the U.S. diversity requirement. (Prerequisite: HI 30) Three credits.
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Students explore the foundation of U.S.foreign relations from independence in 1776 to the outbreak of World War I in 1914.This course looks closely at the interrelationship between ideals and reality as the new United States struggled to protect and confirm its independence, establish a constitutional basis for foreign policy, and expand its borders and influence across the North American continent and around the world.The course discusses such questions as manifest destiny, the Monroe Doctrine, the Mexican War, the displacement of Native Americans, southern expansionism and the Civil War, the Spanish American War, and the open door policy as the United States became a world power on the eve of World War I.(Prerequisite: HI 30) Three credits.
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This course examines the development, crises, and turning points in U.S.relations with the world from Woodrow Wilson to the present, exploring issues such as U.S.reactions to the Russian Revolution, World War I, isolationism and the coming of World War II, the Grand Alliance, the origins and development of the Cold War, the nuclear arms race, the Vietnam War, the United States and Latin America, U.S./Soviet relations, the Middle East and Persian Gulf crises, and the post-Cold-War world.(Prerequisite: HI 30) Three credits.
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This study of the foundations of American civilization compares the colonial systems of Spain, France, and England.The course stresses the development of the British colonies in New England, the mid-Atlantic, and the South, with special emphasis on such topics as Puritanism, the Great Awakening, and the Enlightenment in America.The course also explores Native American/white relations and the development of white attitudes towards people of African American descent.(Prerequisite: HI 30) Three credits.
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