The American Experience (Core D) equips students for critical encounters with the texts, images, sounds, and situations that constitute American life, politics, history, and culture.  Organized around the theme of “the American dream,” the course delves into enduring tensions in American life between inclusion and exclusion, the crowd and the individual, and innovation and nostalgia.  Additionally, the course examines the promise of money and power inherent in some (but not all) articulations of the American dream, as well as the reception of the American dream belief system abroad.

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How to use these pages: Each syllabus is linked, topic by topic, to its appropriate website page, where you may find web resources appropriate to that topic. On the website page there are links back to the syllabus. At the head of each website page and each syllabus are links to all the syllabi. At the head of each website page are links to the other website pages. As through your searches you discover websites you think would be valuable to others, please inform me, Dr. John E. Becker, by email and I will consider them for inclusion on these pages.