2017-2018 Georgia Gwinnett Catalog 
    
    Mar 28, 2024  
2017-2018 Georgia Gwinnett Catalog [ARCHIVED COPY]

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HIST 4250 - Intellectual and Cultural History of Colonial America

(3) Credit Hours
Prerequisite: ENGL 1102  and completion of the Area E history requirement
This course surveys the intellectual and cultural history of the British colonial origins of the United States up to 1763. We’ll study the ideas, philosophies, religious beliefs, art, literature, popular culture, entertainment, artifacts, and everyday habits of Americans who lived during this early period. Several interrelated themes structure this course; the changing relationship between “high” and “low” culture; the evolution of thinking about representative democracy and government; the recurrent national quest for distinctly “American” forms of intellectual and cultural expression; and the role of religion, schools, and science in shaping American thought.



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