Arts, Sciences, and Engineering History
Course Section Listing Course Course Title Term Credits Status
COURSE_SECTION-3-177920 HIST 160-1 Culture Wars in Modern America Fall 2024 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1105 AM 1220 PM Morey Room 504 08/26/2024 12/18/2024
Enrollment: Enrolled     
8 		Capacity     
30
Instructors: Joan Rubin
Delivery Mode: In-Person
Description: Today’s culture wars over gender identities, affirmative action, abortion rights, and similar issues rest on a history of earlier battles that have roiled American society. This course will explore struggles over such topics as censorship, immigration restriction, Prohibition, religion in public schools, sex education, jazz, and the behaviors of youth in order to understand the political tensions, values, and anxieties involved in cultural conflict in the modern United States. Reading assignments will be drawn from primary sources.
Offered: Fall Spring
Course Section Listing Course Course Title Term Credits Status
COURSE_SECTION-3-159769 HIST 160-1 Culture Wars in Modern America Fall 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 200 PM 315 PM Rush Rhees Library Room 305 08/30/2023 12/22/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
23 		Capacity     
No Cap
Instructors: Joan Rubin
Delivery Mode: In-Person
Description: Today’s culture wars over gender identities, affirmative action, abortion rights, and similar issues rest on a history of earlier battles that have roiled American society. This course will explore struggles over such topics as censorship, immigration restriction, Prohibition, religion in public schools, sex education, jazz, and the behaviors of youth in order to understand the political tensions, values, and anxieties involved in cultural conflict in the modern United States. Reading assignments will be drawn from primary sources.
Offered: Fall Spring