Description
315: Contemporary America.
Goal: To enhance understanding of the forces that have shaped contemporary American foreign and domestic policy and the opposition to that policy.
Content: The impact of the Great Depression and of World War II, America?s role as a major power especially in relation to Europe, the growth of the imperial presidency, and the quest of the excluded for recognition. Attention to matters of race, gender, and class.
Taught: Spring. Alternate years.
Credit: 3 hours.