AMST 603 Historical Sequence II: Modern Political, Social, and Cultural History

This course focuses on the emergence of modern American society, culture, and politics from the post-Civil War era through the Great Depression, with emphasis on the following topics: the ideologies of modernism, progressivism, and socialism, and the political, economic, and social forces that constitute modernity; innovations in politics, the arts, and the social sciences, and their relationship to new technologies and the labor practices of industrial capitalism; the labor movement’s struggle for industrial democracy; the emergence of feminism and civil rights.

Prerequisite(s): Graduate student in AMSTDY-MA Program

3 Credit(s)