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CS92PROD
Topics in United States Intellectual History
HIST 235
Fall 2009 not offered
Crosslisting: AMST 236

Using a history-of-ideas approach, this course examines the major intellectual formulations defining the United States from the colonial to the progressive era. These include such ideas as exceptionalism, Puritanism, republicanism, race, manifest destiny, evangelical revivalism, Victorian domestic/gender roles, and social/moral reformism. The rupture (and later reconciliation) that emerged in the wake of the Civil War will also be examined. The course will attempt to illustrate the way in which the self-conception of the United States was initially instituted and reproduced and how such a model of identity has had tremendous triumphs as well as profoundly tragic consequences.

Essential Capabilities: None
Credit: 1 Gen Ed Area Dept: SBS HIST
Course Format: Lecture / DiscussionGrading Mode: Graded
Level: UGRD Prerequisites: None
Fulfills a Major Requirement for: (AMST)(HIST-MN)(STS)

Last Updated on MAR-29-2024
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