HIST 5100 - Emergence of the Modern United States: Progressive Era and Roaring Twenties

Emphasis on political and cultural history. Major topics include “crisis” of the 1890s; early 20th-century progressivism as an intellectual movement and its manifestations in state and local politics and legal traditions; presidencies of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson; impact of World War I; origins of mass society in the 1920s, including cultural tensions, political and intellectual history.

Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:

Students will become critical readers of both primary and secondary sources, and will use and properly cite both types of evidence in their written work.
Students will have a general familiarity with the intellectual, political, economic, social, and cultural history of the United States.
Students will master the formal styles of writing, argumentation, and presentation that historians use in their work.
Students will understand historiography.