History 201-206 seminars are open to history majors only during pre-registration. If the course does not reach its enrollment maximum, it will be open to all students beginning with drop/add on a first-come first-serve basis.
HIST 204 Wall Street: A Cultural History
Fraser
Taught as schedule allows (consult the Course Directory)
SEM
This course examines the way Wall Street has, over two centuries, saturated the lives of ordinary Americans. Political tracts, novels, cartoons, poetry, movies, magazine articles, along with historical accounts, will be used to explore the Street's impact on our political culture, literary and popular arts as well as the country's religious and moral dilemmas. How did Wall Street migrate from the dark to the light side of the American imagination and what does that tell us about the evolution of American culture generally?
Course Syllabus (PDF)
