Courses

A study of the political, economic, social and religious development of the United States from 1877 through the present.

The study of American history from the Civil War era to the present.

224 | P age A survey of American national history since 1877 and the emergence of the United States as a world power. This course emphasizes some of the major issues in American politics and society: the growth of big business; changes in the lives of farmers, workers, and immigrants; the rise of the city; reform movements among rural and urban labor and among minority groups.

Students examine ethnic group relations, nativism, and racism in the historical patterns of assimilation and non-assimilation of ethnic groups.

Students study immigration and ethnicity in America. Using a readings-seminar colonization to the recent past using the analytical frameworks of race, class, policy; border policing; war and migration; women immigrants; and questions privilege.

A study of the historical roots of contemporary US immigration issues.

This course will provide a history of the American Independent filmmaking tradition by studying the major stylistic movements, works, and filmmakers of the 1970s-the present.

Focuses on the rise of the independent film in the 1980s and the struggle with mainstream Hollywood studios for dominance of cinema in the 1990s. Covers independent film makers, finance, scripts and what it takes to make a personal film.

Survey of American Indian history; Pre- Columbian, First Contact, Colonial Conquest, Differentiation between cultural groups; Reservation period, twentieth-century self-determination, and Pan-Indianism; also taught at Qatar campus.

This course is a survey of Native American history in what becomes the United States from 1840 through the present day. Particular attention will be paid to Native-US government relations, the impact of the reservation and assimilation programs, and modern rights issues.