| ENG
2060: | | Studies in American Literature | | An intensive study of a limited
number of texts drawn from the various periods of American
literature. |
| ENG 3300: | | Colonial American Literature | | A study of the literary movements of the colonial
period in America from the Puritans through the Federalist writers,
including the oral traditions of Native Americans. |
| ENG
3310: | | Antebellum American Literature | | A study of 19th-century literature, with an
emphasis on writers of the American Romantic tradition. |
| ENG 3320: | | 19th Century American Fiction | | A study of the novelists and fiction writers of the 19th
century in America, including Hawthorne, Melville, Poe and
Stowe. |
| ENG
3330: | | African American Literature to
1900 | | A study of African-American literature to
1900, using texts such as slave and travel narratives, fiction,
drama and poetry, as well as texts drawn from other
disciplines. |
| ENG 3340: | | American Realism and Naturalism | | A study of the realist and naturalist traditions of American
prose, including Howells, James, Crane, Twain, Dreiser, and other
writers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. |
| ENG
3350: | | American Women Writers | | A study of the writing by women in colonial
and 19th-century America. |
| ENG 3360: | | Early National American Literature | | A study of U.S. literature between the Revolution and the
presidency of Andrew Jackson. Authors may include Susannah
Rowson, Royall Tyler, Washington Irving, Catherine Sedgwick, James
Fenimore Cooper and Lydia Maria Child. |
| ENG
3390: | | Special Topics in American
Literature to 1900 | | A study of special themes and topics in
literature and cultural studies, from the colonial period of
American literature up to 1900. The course is intended to
supplement the regular course offerings in Division III. |
| ENG 3470: | | 20th Century African-American Literature | | Writers, movements and issues of 20th-century African-American
literature, with an emphasis on the relation of literary to oral
traditions.
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| ENG
3480: | | The Harlem Renaissance | | A study of the literature of the Harlem
Renaissance, the African American cultural movement that followed
World War I and lasted in the 1930s. |
| ENG 3560: | | American Ethnic Literature | | A study of works by culturally diverse American writers like
Toni Morrison, Maxine Hong Kingston, James Baldwin, Jamaica
Kincaid, Derek Walcott, Sandra Cisneros, Louise Erdrich, Leslie
Marmon Silko, Bharati Mukherjee and August Wilson. |
| HIS/GEO
1002: | | North American Geography | | a regional analysis of the principal patterns
of the physical, economic and cultural geography of the United
States and Canada, with emphasis on the natural resource base of
those countries, their problems and developments. |
| HIS 2700 U.S.: | | Colonial America | | The European background; the transplanting of European
institutions to the New World; internal development of the
colonies; imperial rivalries; evolution of the colonial
political
system; the coming of the Revolution. |
| HIS 2710:
U.S.: | | The Early National Period | | Major developments of the political, economic
and social history of the United States from the Revolutionary War
to the War with Mexico. Students may not take HIS 2710 in
conjunction with or after completion of HIS 2711 or 2712. |
| HIS 271:1
U.S.: | | The Revolutionary Age | | The progress and outcome of the War forIndependence; the
Confederation Period; the making of the Constitution; the
Federalist Era. Students may not take HIS 2711 in conjunction with
or after completion of HIS 2710. |
| HIS 2712:
U.S.: | | Jeffersonian and Jacksonian
Periods | | The United States in the early to
midnineteenth century; demographic and economic transformation from
a rural agrarian to an urban industrial nation; immigration,
economic modernization and territorial expansion; slavery and other
tensions between North and South. Students may not take HIS 2712 in
conjunction with or after completion of HIS 2710. |
| HIS 2720: U.S.: | | Civil War and Reconstruction | | Political, economic, social and military problems facing the
U.S. during the Civil War and Reconstruction. |
| HIS 2730:
U.S.: | | The Gilded Age | | Technological, industrial and organizational
changes in the last quarter of the nineteenth
century; economic, social, and political impact of these changes;
achievements and abuses of capitalism; growth of organized labor
and emergence of Populism. |
| HIS 2740: U.S.: | | The Age of Reform | | The Age of Reform and empire; problems of neutrality and
Wilsonian leadership; WWI;
economic expansion and collapse; the Roosevelt era. |
| HIS 2750:
U.S.: | | World War II and Post-War
America | | The U.S. and WWII; the Truman reforms;
origins of the Cold War; the Eisenhower
years; the 60s; Vietnam and domestic turmoil; Watergate and
after. |
| HIS 3100/ASC
2540: | | America Meets China | | A historical look at the encounter between the U.S. and China
from 1785 to the present, as prologue to uniquely American forms of
globalism and multiculturalism today. |
| HIS
3150: | | History of Inter-American
Relations | | Readings and research on United States–Latin
American relationships from the 19th century to the present with
emphasis on issues such as regional economic integration,
revolutionary movements, obstacles to democracy, immigration and
the drug trade. |
| HIS 3180: | | America and the Muslim World | | A narrative of Muslims in American history: reflections upon
Islam; interactions with
Muslims, and consumption of Middle Eastern Goods. |
| HIS
3375: | | Asian-American History | | The history of Asians in the United States,
including historical relations between Asians
and other minorities, U.S. foreign policy in Asia and contemporary
issues faced by Asian
communities in an increasingly globalized and multi-racial
American society. |
| HIS 3701: | | U.S. Foreign Relations | | U.S. imperialism and the rise to world power; WWI and the
League of Nations; interwar
diplomacy; U.S. foreign policy in WWII. |
| HIS 3702: | | U.S. Foreign Relations | | Origins of the Cold War in Europe and Asia;
the Korean War; the German question; the
Berlin crises and Germany; the Vietnam War; détente; the second
Cold War; U.S. diplomacy in the 1980s. |
| HIS 3705: | | Race Relations in American Foreign Policy | | The history of the relationship between American foreign policy
and domestic race
relations in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. |
| HIS
3711: | | African-American History to
1900 | | This course provides a survey of the factors
which shaped the work, culture and political
struggles of African-Americans before World War I. |
| HIS 3712: | | African-American History Since 1900 | | This course studies the social history of African-Americans
from 1900 to the present which include political, social, economic
and cultural topics. |
| HIS
3715: | | History of Race and Ethnicity in the United
States | | The history of race and ethnicity in the
United States through the history of American
institutions and the interactions among its peoples. |
| HIS 3720: | | Indians and Europeans in Early America | | Introduces the major topics and themes in the ethnohistory of
early America from first contact through about 1815. |
| HIS
3725: | | Law in American History | | Major trends in American legal history,
including imperial and provincial origins of
American legal culture, politics of constitutional reform, effects
of territorial and commercial expansion, majority and minority
interests, legal construction of power and legal activism |
| HIS 3731: | | Women and Gender in Early America: from Settlement to the Civil
War | | A survey course which analyzes the socioeconomic, cultural and
political factors that influenced the evolution of American women’s
history from the period of colonial settlement to the Civil
War. |
| HIS
3732: | | Women and Gender in Modern America: Civil War
to the Present | | A survey course which analyzes the
socioeconomic, cultural and political factors that influenced the
evolution of American women’s history from the Civil War to the
present. |
| HIS 3735: | | Women and Social Movements in U.S. History | | Women’s participation in American social movements, from
boycotts of British goods
in the 1770s, through the development of feminism two hundred
years later. |
| HIS
3740: | | U.S.: Urban America | | Growth and urbanization and their effects
upon modern American life and institutions. |
| HIS 3750: | | The American South from Reconstruction to the
Present | | The social, material, cultural and political factors that
influenced the transformation of
the Southern society, economy and politics from the Reconstruction
era to the contemporary period. |
| HIS
3760: | | History of New York City and
Long Island | | The history of New York City and Long Island
as a significant episode in the history of the U.S. Emphasis is
placed on social, economic, cultural and religious
developments. |
| HIS 3780: | | Immigrants and the Catholic Church in the
U.S. | | Interaction of the Catholic Church in the U.S. and
Catholic immigrants with emphasis on mid-19th and early
20th-century problems and stresses. |
| HIS
3790: | | The Military in American
History | | Origins and development of military
institutions, traditions and practice in the United States, 1775 to
the present; impact of the military on society. Students may not
take HIS 3790 in conjunction with or after completion of HIS
3791. |
| HIS 3795: | | Technology and Science in 20th Century America | | From the age of inventions to the rise of the Internet, the
ways in which science and technology shape, and are shaped by,
human action and decisions. |
| PHI
3540: | | American Philosophy | | Prerequisite: PHI 3000C. The classic
expressions of the American Pragmatic movement in the writings of
C.S. Peirce, William James, and John Dewey are presented with
reference to cultural context and subsequent developments. (e.g.
Founding Fathers, Emerson, Thoreau, Henry James, Martin Luther
King, Jr., Richard Rorty). |
| RCT 2040: | | American Public Address | | Analysis and evaluation of representative speakers and speeches
in the history of American public address.
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| THE
3510: | | Religion in the United
States | | Prerequisite: THE 1000C. A historical and
thematical study of religion in the United States from the Age of
Discovery/colonial period to the present time. This course explores
the diversity of religious belief and practice as well as how
religion interacts with U.S. culture and society, especially in the
contemporary period. |
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