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ENG: Projektemne: Civilizing Uncle Sam: Aspects of Am. Liberal Reform, 1890-1970 (ba) ( efterår 2007 - 15 ECTS )

Rammer for udbud

  • Uddannelsessprog: (se under Undervisnings- og arbejdsform)
  • Niveau: Bachelor
  • Semester/kvarter: 5. semester
  • Timer per uge: 3 
  • Deltagerbegrænsning: 18
  • Undervisningssted: Århus
  • Hovedområde: Det Humanistiske Fakultet
  • Udbud ID: 9535

Formål

Ved bedømmelsen af prøvepræstationen vil der blive lagt vægt på, i hvor høj grad den studerende

-    demonstrerer grundigt kendskab til det valgte emne, dets litteratur, teorier og problemstillinger.

-    viser færdighed i selvstændig litteratursøgning, formulering af en problemstilling, udvælgelse af relevant stof og disponering af stoffet.

-    bruger relevante fagbegreber, -teorier og -terminologier.

-    anvender relevante analytiske metoder.

-    producerer selvstændigt skriftligt arbejde om emnet.

-    vi ser færdighed i at formidle emnet klart og sammenhængende.

Indhold

We tend to think of the United States as the home of free enterprise, private property and limited government: no welfare provision, no public transport, no unions, no constraints on big business. But the nation is not quite such a dog-eat-dog jungle in which only the richest, strongest or nastiest survive. Since the late 19 th century, in fact, Uncle Sam has in this regard been civilizing himself, and this course explores aspects of the process. Addressing the responses of reformers to the problems of industrial society, it seeks to identify the main features of liberal social, economic and political activism, to account for successive waves of reform, and to evaluate their strengths, shortcomings and contradictions.

The course is divided evenly between three great phases of liberal reform: the Progressive era (approximately 1890 to 1920), the New Deal years (from about 1933 to 1945), and the New Frontier/Great Society period (roughly 1957 to 1970). It addresses a variety of representative issues, including the status of the private corporation, the struggle against poverty, public health and safety, and the place of African Americans in the nation's life. The course will also consider links between domestic and international affairs, such as the ways in which foreign examples have influenced liberal reform in the US , and the notion that liberalism is an imperial ideology.

Faglige forudsætninger

Den studerende kan først indstille sig til prøven i bachelorprojektet, når samtlige andre prøver på de to første år af bacheloruddannelsen er bestået.

Underviser

Dale Carter

Undervisnings- og arbejdsform

Den første del af semesteret består af emneundervisning, der foregår på hold, hvor centrale dele af et specifikt emneområde gennemgås. I løbet af emneundervisningen forventes den studerende at arbejde med skriftlige opgaver og/eller mundtlige fremstillinger, individuelt og sammen med andre. I samarbejde med underviseren udvælger den studerende et særligt aspekt af emneområdet som sit projektemne. Den sidste del af semestret består af individuelt arbejde med informationssøgning og udformning af det valgte projekt, med underviseren som vejleder.

Engelsk

Litteratur

The re will be no 'set text' for this course simply because no single published work adequately covers the field and multiple texts would be rather expensive. Instead, we will draw on a compendium (perhaps two) of primary and secondary readings. The list of 'suggested preliminary reading' given below is for those who would like to learn something more about the subject before the course begins. The books listed below are therefore not 'set texts' and you are not expected to buy any of them (millionaires amongst you are not banned from doing so).

 

Suggested Preliminary Reading ( see About Course Reading , above )

Sidney M. Milkis and Jerome M. Mileur (eds.), The Great Society and the High Tide of Liberalism (2005)

James Young, Reconsidering American Liberalism (1996)

Sidney M. Milkis and Jerome M. Mileur (eds.), The New Deal and the Triumph of Liberalism (2002)

John Morton Blum, The Progressive Presidents , new ed. (1982)

Sidney M. Milkis and Jerome M. Mileur (eds.), Progressivism and the New Democracy (1999)

Alonzo Hamby, Liberalism and its Challengers: FDR to Reagan (1985)

Steve Fraser and Gary Gerstle (eds.) The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order (1989)

Bedømmelse

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