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Modern Political, Social, & Cultural History

Course Overview

Date / Time Location Credits Minimium Tuition*
9/3/24 - 12/13/24
Th 6p.m. – 8:30p.m.
W05-0054 WOST/AMST conf. room 3 $2557 (guest students)
Date
9/3/24 - 12/13/24
Time
Th 6p.m. – 8:30p.m.
Location
W05-0054 WOST/AMST conf. room
Credits
3
Min. Tuition*
$2557 (guest students)

Description

This course focuses on the emergence of modern American society, culture, and politics since 1865, with emphasis on the following topics: the ideologies of modernism, progressivism, and socialism, and the political, economic, and social forces that constitute modernity; innovations in politics, the arts, and the social sciences, and their relationship to new technologies and the labor practices of industrial capitalism; the labor movement's struggle for industrial democracy; the emergence of feminism and civil rights.

Prerequisites

Graduate student in AMSTDY-MA Program

This course is closed for registration.

Course Details