University of North Carolina Wilmington
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Graduate Liberal
Studies Program
This course description has not yet been approved by the instructor for the spring 2009 offering. Use description for general information only until approved.
Course Description

GLS 529:  Cultural Images of America in the 50s

Instructor:  Mike Wentworth

 

An interdisciplinary examination of the United States in the 1950s from a variety of socio-cultural perspectives, with a focus upon such topics as fashion, automotive design, food and kitchen technology, roadside architecture, suburban development, consumerism, the nuclear family, the evolution of a distinctive youth culture, segregation, the “Red” scare, popular fads, and the popular media.

Last Update: February 10, 2008


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