American Social and Cultural History

Catalog description

A survey course of the major social groups, institutions, and values in U.S. history from the colonial period to the present. Topics include a study of racial, ethnic, and religious groups and the changing role of the American family, and explores representations of American identity in art, literature, philosophy, music, photography, architecture, and education. Special emphasis on late 19th and 20th centuries, complex interaction of urbanism, modernism, and industrialism.