300-400 level courses are on special topics and are more advanced. They often presuppose some basic knowledge in the field and should be more difficult courses than courses at the 1-199 levels. The department is trying to insure that some 400 level courses, although substantially more difficult, are also small in size; they thus may be suitable for graduate students.
HIST 209 The Emerging Industrial City
Vitiello
Taught as schedule allows (consult the Course Directory)
SEMINAR
This course examines the social transformations of the industrial age, with an emphasis on their effects on the development of cities. It will explore how economic and technological change transformed not only the nature of production, but also the meaning of politics, the neighborhood, the family, and the sexual division of labor. It will examine the significance of class, race, religion, ethnicity, and gender, at work and in leisure, in several U.S. cities at various stages of industrialization.
