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Course Level: Undergraduate

From the "discovery" of America until today; this course examines what America has meant to thinkers from the Old World. It includes Columbus' discovery; views of the Indians; the Enlightenment's idealization of America as nature; reactions to the American Revolution; twentieth-century critiques of America as overly technological; and reactions to 9/11. Meets with GOVT-608. Prerequisite: GOVT-105 or permission of instructor.