HIST 384 - Radicals, Reformers, and Reactionaries: Arguing about Social Justice in Modern US History

 

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:
 

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

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

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