Jun 30, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
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HIST 4500 - The New Deal and Its Challengers, 1933-1945
This course examines the political economy of the New Deal, the broad program of relief, recovery, and reform that President Franklin Roosevelt’s Administration implemented in response to the Great Depression. It surveys the reaction to these unprecedented government efforts across the political spectrum, with an emphasis on the New Deal’s most articulate critics. And it considers how Roosevelt’s major domestic and foreign policies influenced the direction of both liberalism and conservatism in the United States from the decade of the thirties through the end of World War II.
Requisites: Sr and HIST 2010 and 6 additional hours in History
Credit Hours: 3
OHIO BRICKS Capstone: Capstone or Culminating Experience
General Education Code (students who entered prior to Fall 2021-22): 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Students will be able to describe and critique different historians’ arguments about the New Deal’s political significance and economic impact
- Students will be able to describe the major domestic and international policies of the Roosevelt Administration between 1933 and 1945, and assess their political, economic, and social consequences
- Students will be able to describe and assess both sides of the contemporary debate surrounding America’s participation in World War II
- Students will compare and evaluate the various arguments put forth by the New Deal’s defenders and critics, and trace the intellectual development of liberalism and conservatism from Roosevelt’s first inaugural to the end of World War II
- Students will be able to interpret primary sources on political economy within their original historical context, assessing divergent analyses of the Great Depression’s origins, along with various strategies to promote economic recovery
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