2012-2013 Academic Catalog 
    
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2012-2013 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

HIST 048 - Baseball and American Society

Type of Course: First-Year Seminar
This course will use the story of baseball to illuminate key themes and issues in U.S. history. These include urbanization; mass media, transportation, and culture; immigration and assimilation; race and civil rights legal issues; labor struggles; and globalization. This course will emphasize critical analysis, especially how to interpret sources, from written texts to photographs, films, cartoons, and music, and will include several field trips. HIST 048 carries an HP designation.