SBS130 – History
General Education
Course ID
SBS130
Course Credits
3
About SBS130 – History
This course covers American history from Reconstruction through present times with a focus on analysis and interpretation of varying historical perspectives and assumptions.
Topics Covered In Course
SBS130 Topics
- Reconstruction, the Gilded Age, industrialization, urbanization
- the agricultural revolution, expansion, and progressivism
- post-war prosperity, the Great Depression, neutrality, and the events leading to WWII
- World War II, the Cold War, affluence and its anxieties, and the push for civil rights
- the post-Vietnam years, the rise of conservatism, the closing of the cold war, and America in the Global age