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Course: |
HIS 121
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Title: | US History to Reconst: HI1 |
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Long Title: | U.S. History to Reconstruction |
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Course Description: | Explores events, trends, peoples, groups, cultures, ideas, and institutions in North America and United States history, including the multiple perspectives of gender, class, and ethnicity, between the period when Native American Indians were the sole inhabitants of North America, and the American Civil War. Focuses on developing, practicing, and strengthening the skills historians use while constructing knowledge in the discipline.~~This course is one of the Statewide Guaranteed Transfer courses. GT-HI1 |
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Min Credit: | 3 |
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Max Credit: | |
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Origin Notes: | FRCC |
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Course Notes: | New course number entered 2/20/13 old number was HIS 201 |
STANDARD COMPETENCIES:
I. Four general goals integrate history with workplace skills:
A. Acquire information from many sources
B. Break complex and multiple sources of information down into parts to create clearer understanding
C. Understand the impact of time and space on perspective
D. Develop narrative structures and arguments based on evidence
II. Throughout the course, students should be introduced to course content, practice using course content, and demonstrate they can:
A. Describe how peoples, groups, cultures, and institutions covered in this course change over time
B. Understand the events covered in the course in historical context and recognize how social, cultural, gender, race, religion, nationality and other identities affect historical perspective
C. Communicate orally and in writing about the subject of the course and select and apply contemporary forms of technology to solve problems and compile information
D. Use different resources for historical research, including libraries, databases, bibliographies and archives
E. Analyze secondary sources and recognize differences in historical interpretation
F. Identify types of primary sources, the point of view and purpose of their author or creator
G. Create substantive writing samples which employ critical analysis of primary and secondary sources, and document those sources correctly
H. Construct knowledge in the discipline and synthesize historical narratives and timelines from primary and secondary sources, maps, and/or artifacts and critically analyze, interpret and evaluate many different points of view to construct historical arguments.
TOPICAL OUTLINE:
I. Native North America
II. Colonial North America, 1607-1763
III. North America at 1750
IV. The American Revolution, 1763-1790
V. The New Republic, 1790-1834
VI. Antebellum North America, 1820-1860
VII. Sectionalism and the American Civil War, 1854-1865
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