Arts, Sciences, and Engineering History
Course Section Listing Course Course Title Term Credits Status
COURSE_SECTION-3-124120 HIST 356W-1 US Intellectual History: Pragmatism to Postmodernism Spring 2022 4.0 - 0.0 Open
Schedule:
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T 200 PM 440 PM Genesee Hall Room 308
Enrollment: Enrolled     
9 		Capacity     
18
Co-Located: HIST 356W-1 (P), HIST 456-1
Instructors: Ruben Flores
Description: We will use primary and secondary texts, including essays, monographs, and novels, to study the history of ideas in America since the Civil War, including the effects that new understandings of culture, politics, and economics had on the dominant understandings of American society that preceded them. Among the topics to be considered are pragmatism and progressivism; modernism in the arts and social sciences; socialism and New Deal capitalism as forms of political economy; the challenge to Protestantism arising from immigration and the rise of anthropology; racial liberalism; the feminist revolution; and the rise of postmodernist thought. Throughout, we will ask whether these ideas cohere into a system of thought that is uniquely American or whether they partake of intellectual changes in other parts of the world.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer
Course Section Listing Course Course Title Term Credits Status
COURSE_SECTION-3-108530 HIST 356W-1 American Intellectual History: Modernism to Civil Rights Spring 2021 4.0 - 0.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
R 200 PM 440 PM Meliora Room 219
Enrollment: Enrolled     
4 		Capacity     
18
Co-Located: HIST 356W-1 (P), HIST 456-1
Instructors: Ruben Flores
Description: “Ideas are weapons,” once wrote American journalist Max Lerner. Following his lead, we will study the challenges that new ideas about culture, politics, and economics posed to the dominant understandings of American society that preceded them. Among the topics to be considered are modernism in the arts and social sciences; socialism and New Deal capitalism as challenges to laissez-faire political economy; democracy as a way of life rather than a system of politics; the challenge to Protestantism arising from immigration, American expansion, and the rise of anthropology; racial liberalism; the feminist revolution; and the rise of postmodernism in language and politics. We will use primary and secondary texts both, including essays, monographs, and novels. Throughout, we will seek to better understand the relationship between new ideas and the larger social transformations that they helped to shape.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer