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  Course: HIS 122
  Title:US History since Civil War:HI1
  Long Title:United States History Since the Civil War
  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
  Min Credit:3
  Max Credit:

  Origin Notes: FRCC
  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



 Course Offered At:

  Arapahoe Community College ACC
  Community College of Aurora CCA
  Colorado Community College Sys CCCS
  Community College of Denver CCD
  Colorado Northwestern CC CNCC
  Front Range Community College FRCC
  Lamar Community College LCC
  Morgan Community College MCC
  Northeastern Junior College NJC
  Otero College OJC
  Pueblo Community College PCC
  Pikes Peak State College PPCC
  Red Rocks Community College RRCC
  Trinidad State College TSJC
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