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HIST 3822 is also offered in Summer 2023
HIST 3822 is also offered in Summer 2022
HIST 3822 is also offered in Fall 2021
HIST 3822 is also offered in Summer 2021
Summer 2024 | HIST 3822 Section 301: Making America Modern: 1945 to Present (82179)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
- College of Continuing Education
- Times and Locations:
- Summer Session 14 wk05/13/2024 - 08/16/2024Off CampusVirtual Rooms ONLINEONLY
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (15 of 30 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- American politics and society in the postwar era, the diplomacy of the Cold War, the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, cultural clashes in the 1960's, Watergate, the conservative resurgence, and the end of the Cold War.
- Class Notes:
- For more course details, see https://ccaps.umn.edu/credit-courses/studies-20th-century-europe-turn-century-end-world-war-ii-1900-45
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/82179/1245
Summer 2023 | HIST 3822 Section 301: Making America Modern: 1945 to Present (82447)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
- College of Continuing Education
- Times and Locations:
- Summer Session 14 wk05/15/2023 - 08/18/2023Off CampusVirtual Rooms ONLINEONLY
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (16 of 30 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- American politics and society in the postwar era, the diplomacy of the Cold War, the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, cultural clashes in the 1960's, Watergate, the conservative resurgence, and the end of the Cold War.
- Class Notes:
- For more course details, see https://ccaps.umn.edu/credit-courses/studies-20th-century-europe-turn-century-end-world-war-ii-1900-45
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/82447/1235
Summer 2022 | HIST 3822 Section 301: Making America Modern: 1945 to Present (82077)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
- College of Continuing Education
- Times and Locations:
- Summer Session 14 wk05/16/2022 - 08/19/2022Off CampusVirtual Rooms ONLINEONLY
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (27 of 30 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- American politics and society in the postwar era, the diplomacy of the Cold War, the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, cultural clashes in the 1960's, Watergate, the conservative resurgence, and the end of the Cold War.
- Class Notes:
- For more course details, see https://ccaps.umn.edu/credit-courses/studies-20th-century-europe-turn-century-end-world-war-ii-1900-45
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/82077/1225
Fall 2021 | HIST 3822 Section 001: Making America Modern: 1945 to Present (35246)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/07/2021 - 12/15/2021Tue, Thu 09:45AM - 11:00AMUMTC, West BankHanson Hall 1-111
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (38 of 38 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- American politics and society in the postwar era, the diplomacy of the Cold War, the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, cultural clashes in the 1960's, Watergate, the conservative resurgence, and the end of the Cold War.
- Class Description:
With the events of the past year - including the pandemic, a racial reckoning, and a presidential election unprecedented in many respects - it seems almost imperative that a course that reaches the present begin with that present. These events will be our starting place. Throughout the course we will be interested in situating individuals - including ourselves, our families, our communities - in history.
Our focus will be structured by four broad themes: (1) war time; (2) the consumers' republic; (3) technology and globalization; and (4) citizenship, justice, rights, and belonging. The period from WWII to the present has been fundamentally shaped by war. Ask yourself: Has there been any period in this time not lived in the shadow of war? This reality has shaped every facet of American life and the lives of others around the globe. So too, the "consumers' republic". WWII brought the U. S. out of the depression and ushered in an era of unprecedented American prosperity. But what were the limits of that prosperity and what implications did it have for democracy? We can't think of either war or the consumers' republic without considering technology and globalization. Consider: the atomic bomb, television, transistors, computers, satellites, jet airplanes, container ships, the cell phone. We'll talk about them all. Each of these themes has likewise been bound up in the pursuit of rights, citizenship, justice, and belonging. In every class we will engage one or more of these themes that like interwoven threads give this period in American history its defining structure.
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- Everyone! Understanding the present requires understanding the past. The course is gauged for sophomores, juniors, and seniors.
- Grading:
- Take-Home Essay #1 (4-5 pp): 30% (based on two memoirs); Take-Home Essay #2 (final essay): 40%; Reflective Response Papers 10%; Reading Guides/Quizzes (on Plutopia - a book we'll be reading over much of the term): 20%.
- Exam Format:
- No exams
- Class Format:
- 60% Lecture30% Discussion10% Filmsclass participation (can raise grade by 1/3 letter grade)
- Workload:
- 2 historical monographs; 2 memoirs. All gripping reading.
17-20 Pages Writing (includes 2 essays and occasional reflective response papers)
2 Essays (based on class lectures, films & readings) - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/35246/1219
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 10 April 2021
Summer 2021 | HIST 3822 Section 301: Making America Modern: 1945 to Present (81732)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
- College of Continuing EducationOnline Course
- Times and Locations:
- Summer Session 14 wk05/17/2021 - 08/20/2021Off CampusVirtual Rooms ONLINEONLY
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (18 of 30 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- American politics and society in the postwar era, the diplomacy of the Cold War, the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, cultural clashes in the 1960's, Watergate, the conservative resurgence, and the end of the Cold War.
- Class Notes:
- For more course details, see https://ccaps.umn.edu/credit-courses/studies-20th-century-europe-turn-century-end-world-war-ii-1900-45
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/81732/1215
Fall 2020 | HIST 3822 Section 301: Making America Modern: 1945 to Present (34616)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
- College of Continuing EducationOnline Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/08/2020 - 12/16/2020Off CampusVirtual Rooms ONLINEONLY
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (28 of 30 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- American politics and society in the postwar era, the diplomacy of the Cold War, the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, cultural clashes in the 1960's, Watergate, the conservative resurgence, and the end of the Cold War.
- Class Notes:
- For more course details, see https://ccaps.umn.edu/credit-courses/making-america-modern-1945-present
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/34616/1209
Summer 2020 | HIST 3822 Section 301: Making America Modern: 1945 to Present (87801)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
- College of Continuing EducationOnline Course
- Times and Locations:
- Summer Session 14 wk05/18/2020 - 08/21/2020Off CampusVirtual Rooms ONLINEONLY
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (15 of 30 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- American politics and society in the postwar era, the diplomacy of the Cold War, the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, cultural clashes in the 1960's, Watergate, the conservative resurgence, and the end of the Cold War.
- Class Notes:
- For more course details, see https://ccaps.umn.edu/credit-courses/studies-20th-century-europe-turn-century-end-world-war-ii-1900-45
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/87801/1205
Spring 2020 | HIST 3822 Section 301: Making America Modern: 1945 to Present (55216)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
- College of Continuing EducationOnline Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/21/2020 - 05/04/2020Off CampusVirtual Rooms ONLINEONLY
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (28 of 30 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- American politics and society in the postwar era, the diplomacy of the Cold War, the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, cultural clashes in the 1960's, Watergate, the conservative resurgence, and the end of the Cold War.
- Class Notes:
- For syllabus and course details, see https://ccaps.umn.edu/oes-courses/making-america-modern-1945-present .
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/55216/1203
Spring 2019 | HIST 3822 Section 301: Making America Modern: 1945 to Present (56125)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
- College of Continuing EducationOnline Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/22/2019 - 05/06/2019Off CampusVirtual Rooms ONLINEONLY
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (24 of 30 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- American politics and society in the postwar era, the diplomacy of the Cold War, the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, cultural clashes in the 1960's, Watergate, the conservative resurgence, and the end of the Cold War.
- Class Notes:
- For syllabus and course details, see https://ccaps.umn.edu/oes-courses/making-america-modern-1945-present .
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/56125/1193
Fall 2018 | HIST 3822 Section 001: Making America Modern: 1945 to Present (21576)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/04/2018 - 12/12/2018Tue, Thu 01:00PM - 02:15PMUMTC, West BankBlegen Hall 145
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (32 of 40 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- American politics and society in the postwar era, the diplomacy of the Cold War, the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, cultural clashes in the 1960's, Watergate, the conservative resurgence, and the end of the Cold War.
- Class Description:
- This course begins with the United States' decision to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. These events ended the war and shaped an atomic age at home and abroad. In the wake of a war that devastated Europe and Russia, the United States emerged as a superpower. In these hopeful decades, the United States? military and economic superiority was undisputed, but there was little consensus about how they should use their military might as the Cold War heated up or about the larger impact of affluence, consumption, and rights consciousness upon the Baby Boom generation. While the prosperity and vision of the nation seemed boundless, internal struggles about the rights of blacks, Latinos/as, Asian Americans, women, and workers both challenged the enduring narrative of the American Dream and evinced the possibility that such a dream might finally be accessible to the vast majority of Americans for the first time in the nation's history. The optimism of the postwar period was shaken by a series of crises from the brutalities of racial oppression, and the tragedies of the Vietnam Wars, to the eventual resignation of President Nixon, and the energy crises and economic recessions that plagued the 1970s. Notwithstanding the post-1975 perception that the nation was in decline, evidence of economic, social, and cultural progress was as readily available as were signs of stagnation. Growth in the West and the South and suburban and exurban expansion put the American Dream within reach of a new generation even as the Rust Belt and the growth of a segregated urban underclass in the North evinced continuing inequities. The Cold War ended with little violence and the United States retained its military superiority. Yet the lessons learned from Vietnam complicated U.S. foreign policy, encouraging an isolationism that offered little in the way of international leadership in the face of a series of brutal civil wars. Globalization opened new marketplaces and the nation's imports and exports expanded as did legal and illegal immigration, but low wages also proliferated. This course examines the tensions between the complicated perceptions and realities of postwar U.S. history through an examination of the political, cultural, racial, gender, and class cleavages and convergences of the post-war period; the impact of hot and cold wars on domestic and foreign relations; the development and deployment of anti-communism; the Civil Rights, Black Power, New Left, American Indian, Chicano, Asian American, Women's Liberation and Gay Liberation movements; the Vietnam Wars; post-1965 immigration and the role of the United States in the global marketplace; the rise of the New Right and Evangelical politics; the culture wars; and the role of the United States in the Middle East from the CIA's participation in the 1953 coup in Iran and the oil crises to the advent of the War on Terror.
- Grading:
- 20% Midterm Exam
30% Final Exam
50% Reports/Papers - Class Format:
- 75% Lecture
10% Film/Video
15% Discussion - Workload:
- 100 Pages Reading Per Week
10 Pages Writing Per Term
2 Exam(s)
2 Paper(s) - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/21576/1189
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 5 November 2007
Spring 2018 | HIST 3822 Section 301: Making America Modern: 1945 to Present (69618)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
- Online Course
- Times and Locations:
- ODL Open Enrl Reg Acad Session01/16/2018 - 05/04/2018Off CampusVirtual Rooms ONLINEONLY
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (24 of 30 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- American politics and society in the postwar era, the diplomacy of the Cold War, the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, cultural clashes in the 1960's, Watergate, the conservative resurgence, and the end of the Cold War.
- Class Notes:
- After 11:59 PM Friday of the first week of the term, registration is closed and requires instructor permission. For more course details, see https://plus.google.com/114499805958765709082/about
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/69618/1183
Fall 2017 | HIST 3822 Section 301: Making America Modern: 1945 to Present (16611)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
- College of Continuing EducationOnline Course
- Times and Locations:
- ODL Open Enrl Reg Acad Session09/05/2017 - 12/13/201712:00AM - 12:00AMOff CampusVirtual Rooms ONLINEONLY
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- American politics and society in the postwar era, the diplomacy of the Cold War, the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, cultural clashes in the 1960's, Watergate, the conservative resurgence, and the end of the Cold War.
- Class Notes:
- After 11:59 PM Friday of the first week of the term, registration is closed and requires instructor permission. For more course details, see https://plus.google.com/114499805958765709082/about
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/16611/1179
Spring 2017 | HIST 3822 Section 001: Making America Modern: 1945 to Present (68062)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/17/2017 - 05/05/2017Thu 06:20PM - 08:50PMUMTC, West BankBlegen Hall 215
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- American politics and society in the postwar era, the diplomacy of the Cold War, the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, cultural clashes in the 1960's, Watergate, the conservative resurgence, and the end of the Cold War.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?tdeutsch+HIST3822+Spring2017
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/68062/1173
Fall 2016 | HIST 3822 Section A91: Making America Modern: 1945 to Present (17048)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Online & Distance Lrng (ODL)
- Class Attributes:
- College of Continuing EducationOnline Course
- Times and Locations:
- ODL Open Enrl Reg Acad Session09/06/2016 - 12/14/201612:00AM - 12:00AMOff Campus
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- American politics and society in the postwar era, the diplomacy of the Cold War, the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, cultural clashes in the 1960's, Watergate, the conservative resurgence, and the end of the Cold War.
- Class Notes:
- After 11:59 PM Friday of the first week of the term, registration is closed and requires instructor permission. For more course details, see https://plus.google.com/114499805958765709082/about
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/17048/1169
Fall 2015 | HIST 3822 Section A91: Making America Modern: 1945 to Present (22263)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Online & Distance Lrng (ODL)
- Class Attributes:
- College of Continuing EducationOnline Course
- Times and Locations:
- ODL Open Enrl Reg Acad Session09/08/2015 - 12/16/2015Off Campus
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- American politics and society in the postwar era, the diplomacy of the Cold War, the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, cultural clashes in the 1960's, Watergate, the conservative resurgence, and the end of the Cold War.
- Class Notes:
- After 11:59 PM Friday of the first week of the term, registration is closed and requires instructor permission.
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/22263/1159
Spring 2015 | HIST 3822 Section 001: Making America Modern: 1945 to Present (55151)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- Delivery Medium
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/20/2015 - 05/08/2015Tue, Thu 01:00PM - 02:15PMUMTC, West BankBlegen Hall 220
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- American politics and society in the postwar era, the diplomacy of the Cold War, the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, cultural clashes in the 1960's, Watergate, the conservative resurgence, and the end of the Cold War.
- Class Description:
- This course begins with the United States' decision to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. These events ended the war and shaped an atomic age at home and abroad. In the wake of a war that devastated Europe and Russia, the United States emerged as a superpower. In these hopeful decades, the United States? military and economic superiority was undisputed, but there was little consensus about how they should use their military might as the Cold War heated up or about the larger impact of affluence, consumption, and rights consciousness upon the Baby Boom generation. While the prosperity and vision of the nation seemed boundless, internal struggles about the rights of blacks, Latinos/as, Asian Americans, women, and workers both challenged the enduring narrative of the American Dream and evinced the possibility that such a dream might finally be accessible to the vast majority of Americans for the first time in the nation's history. The optimism of the postwar period was shaken by a series of crises from the brutalities of racial oppression, and the tragedies of the Vietnam Wars, to the eventual resignation of President Nixon, and the energy crises and economic recessions that plagued the 1970s. Notwithstanding the post-1975 perception that the nation was in decline, evidence of economic, social, and cultural progress was as readily available as were signs of stagnation. Growth in the West and the South and suburban and exurban expansion put the American Dream within reach of a new generation even as the Rust Belt and the growth of a segregated urban underclass in the North evinced continuing inequities. The Cold War ended with little violence and the United States retained its military superiority. Yet the lessons learned from Vietnam complicated U.S. foreign policy, encouraging an isolationism that offered little in the way of international leadership in the face of a series of brutal civil wars. Globalization opened new marketplaces and the nation's imports and exports expanded as did legal and illegal immigration, but low wages also proliferated. This course examines the tensions between the complicated perceptions and realities of postwar U.S. history through an examination of the political, cultural, racial, gender, and class cleavages and convergences of the post-war period; the impact of hot and cold wars on domestic and foreign relations; the development and deployment of anti-communism; the Civil Rights, Black Power, New Left, American Indian, Chicano, Asian American, Women's Liberation and Gay Liberation movements; the Vietnam Wars; post-1965 immigration and the role of the United States in the global marketplace; the rise of the New Right and Evangelical politics; the culture wars; and the role of the United States in the Middle East from the CIA's participation in the 1953 coup in Iran and the oil crises to the advent of the War on Terror.
- Grading:
- 20% Midterm Exam
30% Final Exam
50% Reports/Papers - Class Format:
- 75% Lecture
10% Film/Video
15% Discussion - Workload:
- 100 Pages Reading Per Week
10 Pages Writing Per Term
2 Exam(s)
2 Paper(s) - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/55151/1153
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 5 November 2007
Fall 2014 | HIST 3822 Section A91: United States in the 20th Century Since 1945 (23722)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Online & Distance Lrng (ODL)
- Class Attributes:
- College of Continuing Education
- Times and Locations:
- ODL Open Enrl Reg Acad Session09/02/2014 - 12/10/2014Off Campus
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- American politics and society in the postwar era, the diplomacy of the Cold War, the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, cultural clashes in the 1960's, Watergate, the conservative resurgence, and the end of the Cold War.
- Class Notes:
- After 11:59 PM Friday of the first week of the term, registration is closed and requires instructor permission.
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/23722/1149
Spring 2014 | HIST 3822 Section 001: United States in the 20th Century Since 1945 (60308)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- Delivery Medium
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/21/2014 - 05/09/2014Tue 11:15AM - 12:30PMUMTC, West BankBlegen Hall 25501/21/2014 - 05/09/2014Thu 11:15AM - 12:30PMUMTC, West BankBlegen Hall 440
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- American politics and society in the postwar era, the diplomacy of the Cold War, the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, cultural clashes in the 1960's, Watergate, the conservative resurgence, and the end of the Cold War.
- Class Description:
- HIST3822 explores the history of the United States since the end of World War II. For many students, this is a history that your grandparents, parents, and then you lived through parts of. The course gives you an opportunity to discover the social, economic, and cultural changes that took place in the United States over the last 70 years. Specific topics covered include presidential politics; foreign policy and conflict with other nations; the changing role of women; debates about crime, smoking, public health and health insurance, abortion, civil rights, and American society; economic and demographic change including the growth of cities and suburbs, economic inequality, regulation and deregulation of the economy, the baby boom and changes in family life. The structure of the course is designed to give you an opportunity to uncover, explore and question significant changes in American society using digitized primary sources, with an emphasis on surveys of ordinary Americans. To that end, we are working in the computer lab on Thursdays for the entire semester. I will introduce you to software and information sources that you will work with to uncover change. You will work in groups to explore how ordinary people's lives changed over time. As you develop your skills at using the software and data sources, the class will take increasing charge of the narrative of the course, and the questions that we address in lecture, and you will be called on to share your findings with the rest of the class. In the following week's Tuesday lecture I will give you further background on the big picture of important changes and continuities in American life that you have investigated. I will make an effort to include as many of your questions and other contributions in Tuesday's lectures as possible (keeping in mind that the lecture also needs to be somewhat coherent). Throughout the class you will be reading a book on the history of America after World War II, Joshua Freeman, American Empire, 1945-2000. To motivate your reading, you will work in small groups to develop short weekly quizzes on the contents of the book. Quizzes will be given throughout the course, and contribute to your grade. You will have the opportunity to delve further into the cultural and social history of post- World War II America in two assignments based on significant books about or from the era. The class activities, and graded written work, in the course are designed to provide you with opportunities to 1. Learn about important changes in American life since 1945. 2. Think critically about, and discuss with your peers, the development of American society since 1945 giving you a more informed historical background to current events. 3. Develop skills in writing essays. 4. Develop your skills in using quantitative information from surveys, censuses and other sources.
- Grading:
- 60% Reports/Papers
30% Quizzes
10% Written Homework - Class Format:
- 40% Lecture
10% Discussion
40% Laboratory
5% Small Group Activities
5% Student Presentations Tuesdays are in a regular lecture theater; Thursdays in a computer lab. In both settings there will be time for student discussion and informal presentations. - Workload:
- 60 Pages Reading Per Week
15 Pages Writing Per Term
1 Paper(s)
1 Book Report(s)
1 Homework Assignment(s)
12 Quiz(zes)
Other Workload: Quizzes are short and student developed by students. - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/60308/1143
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 28 September 2013
Fall 2013 | HIST 3822 Section A91: United States in the 20th Century Since 1945 (30392)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
- College of Continuing Education
- Times and Locations:
- ODL Open Enrl Reg Acad Session09/03/2013 - 12/11/2013Off Campus
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- American politics and society in the postwar era, the diplomacy of the Cold War, the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, cultural clashes in the 1960's, Watergate, the conservative resurgence, and the end of the Cold War.
- Class Notes:
- After 11:59 PM Friday of the first week of the term, registration is closed and requires instructor permission.
- Class Description:
- This is a fully online section offered through Online and Distance Learning (ODL), College of Continuing Education. VIsit "CIass URL" for ODL policies, including fee and financial aid restrictions. American politics and society in the postwar era, the diplomacy of the Cold War, the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, cultural clashes in the 1960's, Watergate, the conservative resurgence, and the end of the Cold War.
- Grading:
- Other Grading Information: See attached syllabus
- Class Format:
- Online
- Workload:
- Other Workload: See attached syllabus
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/30392/1139
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 15 April 2013
Spring 2013 | HIST 3822 Section 001: United States in the 20th Century Since 1945 (55765)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementDelivery Medium
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/22/2013 - 05/10/2013Tue, Thu 11:15AM - 12:30PMUMTC, West BankHanson Hall 1-106
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- American politics and society in the postwar era, the diplomacy of the Cold War, the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, cultural clashes in the 1960's, Watergate, the conservative resurgence, and the end of the Cold War.
- Class Description:
- The years from the end of World War II to the present have been marked by drama, possibility, tragedy, and, above all, change. World War II created a new world at home and abroad. Never again could Americans treat the worlds of domestic and foreign affairs as separate. From 1946 through the 1980s, the Cold War cast a shadow over every facet of American life. Yet, paradoxically, it also created possibility. The unprecedented era of economic prosperity ushered in by WWII spread the fruits of the American Dream more broadly than ever before and made it possible to believe that poverty itself could be eliminated. That dream was both fueled by the Cold War and ultimately sacrificed to it. From assassinations to impeachments, from Korea to Iraq, from civil rights to women's rights and gay marriage, from the environmental movement to the consumer movement to globalization, we will explore and debate key social, political, economic, cultural, and legal developments in the years from WWII to 2012.
- Grading:
- 100% Reports/Papers Other Grading Information: The first short paper will count for 25%; the second short paper will count for 30%; the final paper will count for 45%.
- Exam Format:
- No exams
- Class Format:
- 75% Lecture
25% Discussion - Workload:
- 90 Pages Reading Per Week
16-20 Pages Writing Per Term
3 Paper(s)
Other Workload: 2 short papers (4-5 pages) and one long paper (8-10 pages). - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/55765/1133
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 5 November 2012
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