American History Undergraduate Degrees in Maynard

... of the course will be to understand the increasingly pervasive influence of the American model of food production and consumption patterns... Learn about: American History...

...the first session per week is one hour long, while the second session per week lasts two hours. Class meetings will consist of lectures or films... Learn about: American History...

...connections with our own lives. Students are expected to attend all classes, to complete all reading before class, and to actively participate in class discussions... Learn about: American History...

... of modern America, including industrialization and urbanization, immigration, the rise of a mass consumer society, the emergence of the US as a global power, and the development of civil rights activism and other major social movements... Learn about: American History, Social Movements...

...students will be required to lead class discussion at least once during the semester, to participate actively in each class discussion, to write frequent... Learn about: Construction Training, Land Use, American History...

...This course uses readings and discussions to focus on a series of short-term events that shed light on American politics, culture, and social organization. It emphasizes finding ways to make sense of these complicated, highly traumatic events, and on using them to understand larger processes... Learn about: American Politics, American History...

..., religion, and class, as well as how the legal system has shaped gender relations for both women and men through regulation of such issues as marriage, divorce, work, reproduction, and the family. The course readings will draw from primary and secondary materials in American history, as well as some court... Learn about: IT Law, Legal History, American History...

... in the 1960s, and the new wave of post–1965 Asian immigration. The class examines the role these experiences played in the formation of Asian American ethnicity. The course addresses key societal issues such as racial stereotyping, media racism, affirmative action, the glass ceiling, the "model minority... Learn about: American History, Professor Training...

..., fragmentation, and late capitalism; however, we will also consider national specificities of violent representation, including particulars like the history of racism in the United States, the role of politeness in bourgeois Austrian culture, and the effect of Japanese manga on vividly graphic contemporary Asian... Learn about: American History...