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• HS 145: History of Postwar America

  3.00 Credits

  Carlow University

  
  This course examines the ways life changed in the period from the end of World War II in 1945 through the end of the 20th century, with particular focus on culture and civil rights. We will look at developments in music, film, the arts, and other humanities disciplines as well as developments in politics, civics, and jurisprudence. Our goal is to develop an understanding of how this 55-year period has influenced our present lives, and connections will be drawn between things we experience in the 2020s and their roots in this period
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• HS 151: World Cultures Hist Dev

  3.00 Credits

  Carlow University

  
  Introduction to world cultures as a contemporary problem and possibility. Beginning with the assumption that the world is a social, economic, political, and cultural entity produced through contestation and cooperation of peoples around the globe-the course looks at major practices through which the world culture has been and continues to be made, including capitalism, colonialism, and war. Methodologies to historical problems
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• HS 170: History U.S. to 1865

  3.00 Credits

  Carlow University

  
  A general survey emphasizing the political, economic, and cultural development of the United States from the colonial era to the end of the Civil War
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• HS 171: History U.S. since 1865

  3.00 Credits

  Carlow University

  
  Continuation of HS 170; both may be taken independently. General study of modern America from 1865 to the present
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• HS 198: Introduction U.S. Labor History

  3.00 Credits

  Carlow University

  
  An examination of the history of the American labor movement and working class culture in the United States from 1800 until the present. The course will focus on the leaders and rank and file of labor as well as the economic, social, cultural, and political context for the development of the workers' movement
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• HS 201: Introduction to Modern Asia

  3.00 Credits

  Carlow University

  
  An introductory overview of modern Asia from the decline of the early modern empires to the impact of European and American imperialism, cultural renaissance, nationalist movements, creation of independent nation states, postcolonial developments, and U.S.- Asian relations
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• HS 202: Modern China

  3.00 Credits

  Carlow University

  
  A brief overview of China's history before 1949; the foundation of the People's Republic of China, Taiwan; the career of Mao Zedong; the Great Leap; Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976; Deng Ziaoping; and the present period
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• HS 203: Modern Japan

  3.00 Credits

  Carlow University

  
  An introduction to the development of an industrial society, parliamentary government, mass culture, and imperialism from the Meiji reforms of the late 19th century through World War II to the present
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• HS 204: Working-Class Stories

  3.00 Credits

  Carlow University

  
  An exploration of working-class experience in the United States as represented in poetry, fiction, memoir, and other literary genres. The course emphasizes the diversity of the working class, which in every era includes most people. Themes include: migration and immigration; creativity, agency, and resistance; the dignity of work and the degradation of the worker in class society; and conflict, solidarity, and the common good
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• HS 205: History of American Women

  3.00 Credits

  Carlow University

  
  A study of the history of women in America from the colonial era to the present focusing on struggles for equal rights, family, sexuality, feminism, leadership, and the impact of race, class, and ethnicity
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