See ENGL 382 for description. A recent topic was The Cold War. America Before 1800. America After 1800. Topics have included American Slavery and Emancipation, War and Society, and American Modernism.
American cities are increasingly pathological.
Those are the basic questions the seminar addresses. Students interested in testing that assumption are invited to apply for admission. Topics have included The Chinese Cultural Revolution. At the same time, the Cultural Revolution developed the most vicious and dishonest aspects of the Maoist regime to their logical extreme. As a result, the Chinese Communist Party today must reckon with a complete lack of faith in socialism on the part of the people whose support it seeks.