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HIS 110 - Becoming Modern: America in the 1920s (First-Year Seminar*)

Three or Four Credits
Not Offered 2012-2013

Celebrated in the popular imagination as the age where “anything goes,” America in the 1920s witnessed modernizing and traditional forces clash over such issues as immigration, prohibition, radicalism, consumerism and changing moral standards. This course explores the cultural ferment of the time, examining how the forces of modernity and traditionalism made the Twenties both liberating and repressive.

 

Prerequisite(s): *Four-Credit version open to First-Year Students only.
Considered a United States History.
Three-Credit version fulfills Cornerstone History Requirement.
*Four-Credit version fulfills the First-Year Seminar and Cornerstone History Requirements.