Social and cultural development from the 14th to the early 16th centuries.
3 hr./wk.
A survey of political, social, and ideological currents during the age of emerging and maturing capitalism from the Industrial Revolution to World War I.
3 hr./wk.
A survey of social and cultural life in its political and economic contexts in the 20th century.
3hr./wk.
Open to qualified graduate students in the School of Education interested in the study of special problems. May be repeated for a maximum of six credits.
Credits
Variable 1-3 cr./sem.
Requires sponsorship by an appropriate faculty member and approval of the Advisory Committee.
Hours to be arranged.
Institutional and structural developments in social and cultural life, including the family, religion, ethnic patterns, recreation, working conditions, and ideologies from the earliest settlements to the emerging capitalism of the 19th century.
3 hr./wk.
The evolution of United States foreign policy and relations from colonial dealings with native Americans to military, economic and political involvement on a global scale.
3 hr./wk.
Concentrates on urbanization, industrialization, the new immigration, and the emergence of the modern corporate state.
3 hr./wk.
Traces the development of the American people since 1890. Analysis of factors, domestic and foreign, that led to the emergence of the United States as a world power.
3 hr./wk.
Immigration and ethnic interchange from the relations between Africans, the English, and native Americans in the 17th century through the Irish migration of the 19th century. Emphasis will be on cultural adaptations to and retentions in America.
3 hr./wk.
Ethnic cultures and migratory movements, including the northward migration of Blacks, since the 1870s. Topics will include the similarities and differences among ethnic experiences in America, cultural adaptations to and retentions in a rapidly industrializing society.
3 hr./wk.
History, politics, and culture of Hispanic America; colonial and Indian background fused through independence movements into the history of modern Latin America.
3 hr./wk.
Survey of development of Chinese and Japanese civilizations from ancient times to the 17th century. Emphasis on political and social institutions and culture.
3 hr./wk.
Development of China and Japan from the 17th century to present; contact and conflict of occidental and oriental civilization; influence of Europe and America.
3 hr./wk.
The history of African-Americans in the United States, including West African backgrounds, a comparative study of hemispheric slavery, early Black institutional life, and efforts to resist slavery.
3 hr/wk.
Beginning with Reconstruction, African-American political, economic, cultural, and ideological evolution will be traced to the present.
3 hr./wk.
Evaluation of primary and secondary sources, with emphasis on internal criticism. A survey of American historiography.
3 hr./wk.
The nature of executive and legislative power in American national government, with particular focus upon the constitutional bases, politics, and contemporary operation of the elective branches.
3 hr./wk.
Focus on the rise of social history in contemporary historiography. Approaches to the subject include the contributions of the British Marxists, the French Annales school, social-scientific historians, and women's historians. Readings will cover United States, Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Europe.
3 hr./wk.