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Throughout 2020, Democratic politicians ranging from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders to Joe Biden invoked Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “New Deal” as a past model worth emulating in America in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. This seminar will explore the impact of the Great Depression and Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal on education in the United States during the 1930s. The course will explore issues in primary, secondary, higher, and adult education throughout the 1930s and examine how educators and administrators responded to the challenges of the economic crisis. This course will also look at federal work relief programs like the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and Works Progress Administration (WPA) to show how the Federal Government enlisted American citizens to educate their fellow citizens through a variety of initiatives, whether through WPA art projects, state park expansion, or promoting domestic travel through guidebooks. This course will also discuss education in Huey Long’s Louisiana as an alternative to Roosevelt’s policies, as well as other aspects of the segregated South.
This course will be conducted in English. All students seeking a grade will be expected to write a paper or sit for an exam on a historical topic.
- Lehrende/r: Nicholas Johnson