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HIS 203
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Title: | Civil War Era Amer Hist:HI1 |
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Long Title: | Civil War Era in American History:GT-HI1 |
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Course Description: | Explores the causes, course, and consequences of the American Civil War. Students will examine four broad themes: union and disunion; slavery, race, and emancipation; the experience of modern war for individuals and society; and the challenges of Reconstruction. This course focuses on developing, practicing, and strengthening skills historians use while constructing knowledge and studying a diverse set of narratives through perspectives such as gender, class, religion, and ethnicity. This is a statewide Guaranteed Transfer course in the GT-HI1 category. |
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Min Credit: | 3 |
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Origin Notes: | CCD |
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Course Notes: | Entered new course 11/14/11 LK |
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General Notes: | Update GT/Desc/CLOs/TO effective 202110 |
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REQUIRED COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES:
1. Reference secondary and tertiary sources to construct knowledge and to develop context.
2. De-construct complex and multiple sources of information into basic historical concepts.
3. Recognize the impact of continuity and change of historical perspective in context of time and space in the Civil War Era in American History.
4. Develop narrative structures and arguments based on evidence.
5. Compare and contrast how peoples, groups, cultures, and institutions change over time in the Civil War Era in American History.
6. Analyze events in the Civil War Era in American History in historical context to illustrate how social, cultural, gender, race, religion, nationality, and other identities affect historical perspectives.
7. Use diverse resources for historical research, including libraries, databases, bibliographies, and archives.
8. Identify perspectives in historical interpretation using secondary sources.
9. Identify types of primary sources, their perspective, and purpose of their author.
10. Create substantive writing samples that employ critical analysis of primary and secondary sources with appropriate citations.
11. Construct knowledge by developing historical narratives from primary and secondary sources, maps, and/or artifacts.
REQUIRED TOPICAL OUTLINE:
I. Slavery and the American Republic
II. The Mexican War: The lessons taught and learned
III. Political collapse, 1848-1860
IV. Secession
V. Fort Sumter and Lincoln’s 11 week “dictatorship”
VI. Slavery vs. freedom: The Emancipation Proclamation
VII. The “other” war: The war in north and south
VIII. At the home front and the battle’s front: Women and the Civil War
IX. The war and civil liberties
X. Lincoln and his generals
XI. The naval war
XII. Gettysburg and Vicksburg
XIII. A war of exhaustion --- Sherman’s march through Georgia; Lincoln’s re-election
XIV. The collapse of the confederacy and Lincoln’s assassination
XV. Reconstruction: Putting the country back together again during the war
XVI. Destroying reconstruction
XVII. Trying to remember and trying to forget the Civil War
XVIII. The second reconstruction
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CCD |
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