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Course: |
HIS 122
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Title: | US History since Civil War:HI1 |
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Long Title: | United States History Since the Civil War |
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Course Description: | Explores events, trends, peoples, groups, cultures, ideas, and institutions in United States History, including the multiple perspectives of gender, class, and ethnicity, between the period of the American Civil War and the present. 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 2/10/13 old number was HIS 202 |
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. Reconstruction, 1863-1877
II. Industrial America, 1877-1917
III. Territorial Expansion, Imperialism, and War, 1867-1920
IV. Prosperity, Depression, and War, 1920-1945
V. Foreign Policy and the Cold War, 1945-1991
VI. Vietnam Abroad and Civil Rights at Home, 1945-1975
VII. Contemporary America, 1945-Present
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