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Aug 21, 2024
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HIST 384 - Radicals, Reformers, and Reactionaries: Arguing about Social Justice in Modern US History Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-UD-C; Social Justice Investigations of intellectuals and activists who struggled to redefine and expand democracy and citizenship in the modern United States. Emphasis on evolving ideas to create a more equitable nation. Labor, antiwar, Black Freedom, feminism, and conservative reaction as case studies.
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: On-ground or Online-Asynchronous. 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 contests over, and reaction to, social justice movements in the modern United States.
- Analyze the moral responsibilities of intellectuals to effect change;
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.
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