ENGL 395.R01
The Jazz Age and American Literature
This special topics course will explore the literary 1920s, a decade of incredibly rich artistic creativity and enormous social and technological change. To appreciate the connections between the artistic achievements and the cultural complexities of the decade, we will read widely in fiction and poetry, including works by F. Scott Fitzgerald, e.e. cummings, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Ernest Hemingway, Zelda Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis, and John Dos Passos. Contextually, we will consider such issues as bohemianism and stylistic experimentation, the impact of WWI and the expatriate experience of the Lost Generation, women's struggle to find their own personal and artistic identities following the passage of the 19th Amendment, and the darker topics of xenophobia, nativism, and bourgeois materialism.
Course Instructor: Dr. Larry Carlson

ENGL 395.R03
The Harlem Renaissance
What separates the Harlem Renaissance from the modernism of the Jazz Age? Where are the intersections? This course will consider the Harlem Renaissance in its social, intellectual, and political contexts. Readings will include literary works (including Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, and Nella Larsen), political writings (including Marcus Garvey and Booker T. Washington), and social and critical commentary (including Alain Locke and W.E.B. DuBois). We will also look at music and art from the period.
Course Instructor: Dr. Conseula Francis

HIST 310.090 / POLS 399.090
1920s: Social Tension, Law, and Disorder in the Jazz Age
Beneath the glittering façade of the "Jazz Age," social tension, political turmoil and cultural conflict divided Americans. This course will explore topics such as the controversies over traditional vs. modern values in the era (including changing gender roles and the teaching of evolution in public schools), enforcement of Prohibition and the growth of organized crime, the persistence of economic due process of law and laissez faire capitalism as national government policy, the Harlem Renaissance and Marcus Garvey, the rise of the second Ku Klux Klan, immigration restriction, political scandals over oil and water, reform efforts, and changing economic conditions which eventually led to the Great Crash.
Course Instructors: Dr. George Hopkins (History) and Dr. David Mann (Political Science)

HONS 392.001
The U. S. Economy in the 1920s
Students will gain a thorough understanding of the US economy during the period between WWI and FDR's inauguration. Major topics include development of the Federal Reserve System, economic impact of wartime mobilization, distribution of income, patterns of state-economy relations (including regulation), and the causes of the Great Depression.
Course Instructor: Dr. Jane Clary (Economics)

MUSC 347.001
History of Jazz
A study of the historical, cultural, and musical significance of jazz and the major trends and styles of jazz, with attention to the most important performers in this idiom.  (Fall 2002 only)
Course Instructor: Prof. David Maves