Nov 25, 2024  
2020-2021 Undergraduate Bulletin 
    
2020-2021 Undergraduate Bulletin [ARCHIVED BULLETIN]

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HIST 162C - (HP) Protest and Reform in American History

Semester Hours: 3
Periodically
Exploration of the broad theme of social change in American historical experience. Through a consideration of selected aspects of radical and meliorist reform traditions, the dynamics of the interrelationships between individual conscience and social institutions, and the role of personal and collective idealism and commitment in the attempt to redirect cultural traditions and transform social institutions are studied. Movements examined might include: abolitionism, temperance, anti-war movements and pacifism, civil rights and social equality movements, women’s rights and Feminism, Anarchism and Socialism, Populism, Progressivism and the New Deal.





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