2015-2016 Undergraduate Academic Catalogue 
    
    Mar 29, 2024  
2015-2016 Undergraduate Academic Catalogue [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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HS 353 - History of Violence in America

(3.00 cr.)

Prerequisite: One HS 100-level course. Violence has been a salient feature in America's past and present and portends to play a major role in the future. We can observe the history of violence from the invasion of the Americas; to the Puritans' exclusivity; to the legal and social subjugation of Africans into chattel slavery; to the rise and near fall of urban centers; to and through revolutionary and civil wars; to the chemical destruction of the physical environment at home and abroad; to a steady contemporary diet of enactments of violence in Hollywood films, television cartoons, comic strips, music videos, art exhibits, popular literature, etc.; and to the present revelation of the high incidence of violence in American families. This course increases students' understanding of the subtle dimensions and roots of violence and also enables them to determine alternatives and solutions to violent thought and acts in American society. IFS/IU



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