HIST 2062 - Modern America: Civil War to Iraq
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Course Details
| Course Code | HIST 2062 |
| Course | Modern America: Civil War to Iraq |
| Coordinating Unit | School of History & Politics, Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences |
| Term | Semester 2 2013 |
| Mode | Internal |
| Level | Undergraduate |
| Location/s | North Terrace |
| Units | 3 |
| Contact | Up to 3 hours per week |
| Prerequisites | 12 units Level I Humanities/Social Sciences, including 3 units in History |
| Corequisites | Not applicable |
| Incompatible | Not applicable |
| Assumed Knowledge | Not applicable |
| Restrictions | Not applicable |
| Quota | Not applicable |
| Course Description | This course spans the period from America’s nineteenth-century emergence as one of many major industrial powers to its current status as the economic and cultural hub of the world . We will trace four main themes during the period: American diversity, the relationship between the state and society, American culture, and the growth of American imperialism and “soft” power. American diversity will include an assessment of how gender, ethnicity, racial and class experiences have shaped America. We will also chart the changing relationship between Americans and “the state” from the comparatively small nineteenth-century government to the expansive government created by Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson. American cultural developments will be a particular feature of the course especially since these resonated around the world in the twentieth and twentieth-first centuries. We will explore the development of print culture (from novels to comic books), American musical forms (including the birth of blues, country, rock and roll, the folk revival of the sixties, and more contemporary forms like Hip Hop), consumer culture, as well as the transforming mediums through which culture was transmitted such as the significance of radio and television. These cultural developments became all the more significant as American extended its power around the world. |
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Course Staff
Dr Thomas Buchanan
School of History & Politics
Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
Room 522
Napier Building
North Terrace
Telephone: +61 8 8313 4682
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