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2016-2017 UMass Dartmouth Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

HON 202 - Transformative American Ideas

Credits 3Satisfies University Studies requirement: Nature of US Society
Lecture / 3 hours per week
Requirements: Prerequisite: Honors Program Students Only
Investigation of important North American contributions to human civilization, from Jazz and the airplane, to nuclear weapons and Cheese Wiz, to individual rights, the written constitution and the democratic republic. Topics could include Coming Down with the Blues; building the car, or the plane, Hollywood and the Invention of mass cinema; from inalienable rights to human rights; the Long 1960s as Cultural Revolution. May be repeated with change of content.
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