U.S. Thought and Culture, 1877 to the Present

Acquaints students through historical scholarship and primary sources with broad themes in modern American intellectual and cultural life. Significant thinkers and intellectual and cultural movements will be covered. Topics include: the Victorian moral order; Darwinism and the triumph of science; pragmatism; artistic modernism; Marxism and socialism, the new liberalism; Cold War ideology; the impact of psychoanalysis; consumer culture, the new conservatism, multiculturalism.