HIST 384 - Modern American Thought

Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-UD-C; Social Justice
Intellectual, political, and cultural ideas, ideologies, and movements in twentieth-century United States. Focus on Progressivism, Pragmatism, the Romantic Left, Socialism, Unionism, Utopianism, Liberalism, the New Left, and Conservatism.

Strongly Recommended Preparation: Upper division status (greater than 60 earned semester units) and completion of lower division Area C requirements.
Prerequisites: Completion of GE Areas A1, A2, A3 and B4 with grade C- (CR) or better.
Possible Instructional Methods: Entirely On-ground, or Entirely Online.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice).
Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-UD-C - Upper Division Arts or Humanities, Overlay - Social Justice
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring

Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

Analyze the moral responsibilities of intellectuals to effect change;
Examine influential thinkers and ideologies in the United States after 1900;
Investigate the ideas animating anti-imperialist, New Left, Black freedom, and feminist movements in the United States;
Consider economic arguments and ideologies prominent in the United States after 1900;
Identify the intellectual ideas shaping social justice movements in the modern United States.

UD-C. Upper-division Arts or Humanities Learning Outcomes

demonstrate an understanding of and ability to apply the principles, methodologies, value systems, and thought processes employed in the arts and humanities;
analyze cultural production as an expression of, or reflection upon, what it means to be human; and
demonstrate how the perspectives of the arts and humanities are used by informed, engaged, and reflective citizens to benefit local and global communities.

Social Justice Overlay Learning Outcomes

use a disciplinary perspective to analyze issues of social justice and equity;
describe the challenges to achieving social justice; and
identify ways in which individuals and/or groups can contribute to social justice within local communities, nations, or the world.