Key Issues and Events in American Social Change Precapstone

This course inherently espouses an interdisciplinary approach.

We consider the multi-century narrative of social reform movements in the United States by emphasizing the materials and methods used in government, history, and religion.

Topics include abolition, suffrage, temperance, the New Deal, civil rights, and Great Society initiatives of the 1960s.

While together studying the primary sources relevant to the weekly topics, students assemble their own topics and produce an analysis of the literature relevant to their research topic.