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U89 AMCS 474How St. Louis Helps Explain America: The Civil War to the Jazz Age3.0 Units
Description:What was our nation like in the later 19th and early 20th centuries, and how did St. Louis influence those characteristics? In this multidisciplinary course, we explore American history, literature, visual art, and music from the Civil War to the Jazz Age to answer these questions. We consider the key themes, decisive moments, and significant cultural developments that have shaped our national character, including struggles for religious, racial, and gender rights; American violence; our polarities of innocence and experience, of individual and group welfare, and of individualism and conformity; and expressions of the American Dream and its dreamers. Special focus is placed on the sociopolitical developments of antebellum and post-Civil War St. Louis: its multiethnic roots, complex immigration, landmark court cases, the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition World's Fair, the 1918 flu pandemic, post-World War I race relations, and the important lives of figures like Floating Freedom School founder John Berry Meachum, Dred and Harriet Scott, William Greenleaf Eliot, Kate Chopin, and suffrage pioneer Virginia Minor. Reflecting the multidisciplinary character of American Culture Studies, we engage and analyze source material by viewing American post-Romantic, Realistic, Naturalistic, and World War I era visual art, architecture, and photography; listening to Civil-War-related, later 19th-century, turn-of-the-century, vaudeville, and early Jazz Age music; and reading from major and lesser-known writers. While doing so, we examine how social and political developments of the time influenced our artists as the flourishing of a distinctly American art became internationally acknowledged. This course counts toward the American Culture Studies major for day students, and it fulfills the Humanities or Arts distribution requirement for the AMCS MA program.
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Instruction Type:Remote per COVID-19 Grade Options:CPA Tuition:$2,220.00 Fees:
Course Type:HomeSame As:U76 574  U96 6474  U98 5741Frequency:None / History
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