Course Catalog - 2008-2009

     

HIST 240 - CIVILIZING MISSIONS IN AMERICA

Long Title: CIVILIZING MISSIONS IN 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY AMERICA
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: Intensive writing course examines Protestant missions to native Americans, African Americans, Hispanic Americans, immigrants, and southern Appalachian whites. It will relate histories of civilizing missions to larger problems of the period., such as immigration, imperialism, black/white relations, and notions of proper domesticity.