Jul 01, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
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HIST 3106 - History of American Conservatism
Introduces students to the intellectual, political, and cultural history of conservatism in the United States, with a major focus on the twentieth century. Identifies and examines the theorists, journalists, economists, politicians, literary figures, and activists who built a coherent body of conservative ideas and a political movement to challenge the prevailing liberal orthodoxy of the post-New Deal era. Highlights the major philosophical themes and practical aims that animated this diverse set of historical actors and often set them at odds with one another: preserving the values, traditions, and institutions that sustained local communities and the nation’s constitutional order; maximizing individual liberty in an economic and social context; opposing various forms of collectivism and the encroachment of state power; fighting communism at home and abroad.
Requisites: Soph or Jr or Sr
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,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 learn to distinguish among different traditions of American conservativism, including libertarianism, anti-communism, and cultural traditionalism.
- Students will learn what conservatism means in the context of the American political and cultural tradition.
- Students will master the formal styles of writing, argumentation, and presentation that historians use in their work.
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