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US History Since 1945 |
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US HIST 1945 |
| CLASS CODE: |
HIST 378 |
CREDITS:
3
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| DIVISION: |
LANGUAGE & LETTERS |
| DEPARTMENT: |
HISTORY, GEOGRAPHY, POLITICAL SCIENCE |
| GENERAL EDUCATION: |
This course does not fulfill a General Education requirement. |
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| CATALOG DESCRIPTION: |
United States as a superpower from the Cold War to the present with a particular emphasis on social, political, economic and cultural changes preceding and succeeding the Vietnam War. |
| DESCRIPTION: |
This course traces the rise of the United States as a superpower from WWII to present. |
| TOPICS: |
This course will include, among other topics, the cold war, social, political and cultural changes hinging on the civil rights movement, the Vietnam war and possibly the Sept. 11th attack. |
| OBJECTIVES: |
To introduce and familiarize students with relevant primary sources, and literature and acquaint them with a historic methodology with which to assess their own recent history. |
| REQUIREMENTS: |
Students will be required to read 1,000+ pages, write a 10 page paper, give an oral presentation using Power Point, and know the basic work of 25 significant scholars in the field.
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| PREREQUISITES: |
No prerequisites, but students are encouraged to have Hist 201-202 and Hist 300. All students in 300 level courses will be expected to know how to research, write, and document a basic historical essay. |
| OTHER: |
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| EFFECTIVE DATE: |
August 2001 |
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