This course must be taken as the student’s final course in the Core in that it draws on all the Core Courses. This is a course on late twentieth- and early twenty-first century America. Its time frame roughly corresponds to the life spans of most BALS students. Its purpose is to help apply the critical approaches they have learned elsewhere to the world in which they live. It will be left to instructors to collaborate and submit proposals on what the segments should or could be, but the following need to be addressed in some form: democracy and the struggle for justice and equality; religious pluralism; globalization; immigration; and human rights.