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Sports, Politics, And Business In The Us

This thematic course draws upon sports to chronicle social, cultural and political topics, and issues in American history. Students will explore colonial America, slavery, progressive reform, urbanization, world wars, women's rights, and the black freedom struggle. Students will examine how heroic athletes have contributed to the construction of American business and politics. Students will examine primary sources and scholarly essays in order to enhance their critical thinking skills about America's consuming and controversial investment and interest in sports.

Renaissance Europe

"Renaissance Europe" is an overview of the rebirth of classical culture that we call the Renaissance. We will examine the political and social background to the changes in arts and letters that occurred in 14th- and 15th-century Italy, how the Renaissance developed, and why and how the Renaissance spread to the rest of western Europe.

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