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College Catalog 2015-2016 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

HI 231 - American Minds II - From Victorianism to Multiculturalism

4.00 credits.
This course explores the development of American ideas from the post-Civil War Victorians to contemporary debates over multiculturalism and postmodernism. It will center on close readings of “classic” and controversial texts written by such original thinkers as Henry Adams, W.E.B. Du Buois, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Reinhold Niebuhr and Richard Rorty.