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.