Courses

Examination of rural and urban environments affected by global currents in culture, politics, and society; exploration of urbanism as represented by artists, writers, and filmmakers; study of such topics such as urban design.

A study of experience of American blacks since the end of the Civil War, including Reconstruction and the Civil Rights movement.

The history of the Civil Rights Movement with emphasis on major leaders, organizations and events in the twentieth century black freedom struggle.

Advanced study of the Civil Rights Movement in America.

History of the civil rights movement and its place in the broader African- American struggle for freedom. Social, political, and cultural history, with geographic and chronological focus on the United States South in the post-World War II period.

This course will examine the events, personalities, and issues of the Civil Rights Movement in America, 1945 to present. Lectures will consider such themes and topics as the origins of segregation, the impact of World War II on the African American community, the life of Martin Luther King Jr., the Montgomery bus boycott, the Freedom Rides, Brown v. Board of Education, Massive Resistance, the White Citizens' Council movement, ―cultural integration, and the Black Power movement.

The American Civil War and Reconstruction continue to attract great scholarly and popular attention. This course takes a chronological and thematic approach to discuss the war's complex meaning to past and present Americans. Through readings, lectures, class discussions and movies, students will explore traditional military and political aspects of the era, causes and consequences of the crisis, as well as racial, social, gender and cultural dimensions. PW: Global Engagement

The history of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 through the election of 1876. (WI).

A study of the origins of the Civil War, the status of both the North and the South during the war and the efforts to restore the Union.

A graduate seminar focusing on the origins of the Civil War, the status of both the North and the South during the war and the efforts to restore the union. Class discussions, assigned readings and the preparation and presentation of a research paper will provide students with a greater understanding of this definitive era in American history.