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AME 150 - America's Ethnic History: Rick Olguin (North Seattle Community College, Winter 1996)The key question in U.S. national history has been: How do we forge a nation out of diverse people. Different historical periods answered this question in different, often contradictory ways.AME 151 - Societies and Cultures of America : Rick Olguin (North Seattle Community College)
This course introduces students to the study of American cultures. Several cultures are examined to exemplify how culture is studied and discussed. Students also develop a research theme on an American culture of their own choice.American Studies 661 - Multicultural Pasts: Robert Gross (College of William and Mary)
This course explores the field of American Studies through the lens of multiculturalism. It offers a critical scrutiny of past and present scholarship about the United States as a pluralistic society.
AES 150 - History of American Ethnic Groups: Erasmo Gamboa (University of Washington)This history course use the concept of insiders and outsiders order to examine the history of Native American, Mexican American, African American, and Asian American peoples in the United States. The history of these four "minority" or outsider groups will be compared to each other and against the background of United States history from the "colonial period" to the 1970's.
Education 561 - Education and Gender: Betty Schmitz (University of Washington)In this course, we will explore the multiple and complex relationships of gender and education, drawing extensively on the analyses and critiques of traditional conceptions knowledge, teaching and research by feminist scholars and teachers.
English 368A - Asian American Women Writers: Caroline Chung Simpson (University of Washington)This course will focus on the work of a recently emerging younger generation of Asian American women writers in an attempt to locate their contribution to and troubling of the issues and aesthetics of the novel form.
HSTAA 200 - Peoples of the United States: James Gregory (University of Washington)This course explores the history of American diversity from1500 to the present. Beginning with the first contacts between Europeans and North Americans we will examine the sequence of repopulation through immigration and conquest that eventually made the United States one of the most ethnically diverse societies on earth.HSTAA 302 - American Civilization: The First Century of Independence: Tracy McKenzie (University of Washington)
HSTAA 302 is a general survey of the history of the United States from 1781 to 1877. Major topics include the creation of the constitutional system, the emergence of political parties, Jacksonian Democracy, antebellum social reform, the conflict over slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction.
Political Science 310A- The Western Tradition of Politial Thought: Modern: Christine Di Stefano (University of Washington)This course will provide a selective survey of modern (not to be confused with contemporary) political thought, including primary source works of Karl Marx, Alexandra Kollontai, John Stuart Mill, W.E.B. Du Bois, Max Weber, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Richard Wright. Special attention will be given to each theorist's unique and enduring attempt to analyze the modern Western experience
Women 383 - Social History of Women: Shirley J. Yee (University of Washington)This course is a survey of the history of women in the United States from the 17th century to the present, and will examine the dynamics of race, ethnicity, class, and gender in women's historical experience
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