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HIS 235
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Title: | Hist of American West:HI1 |
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Long Title: | History of the American West: GT-HI1 |
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Course Description: | Traces the history of the American West from Native American cultures to the present. It explores the frontier experiences of America's earliest, eastern settlers through the Trans-Mississippi West across the great exploratory and wagon trails including cities, ranching, reservation, resource management, and industry. 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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General Notes: | revised competencies entered 11/30/10 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 History of the American West.
4. Develop narrative structures and arguments based on evidence.
5. Compare and contrast how peoples, groups, cultures, and institutions change over time in the History of the American West.
6. Analyze events in the History of the American West 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. Defining the Far West: geography, Turner and Anti-Turner Theses
II. The western wildernesses, east of the Mississippi
III. Indians of the Far West
IV. Imperial competition and conquest
V. Removal and reservations
VI. The Civil War in the West
VII. Western rushes, land policy, settlement
VIII. Women in the West
IX. Railroads, mining, and industry
X. Economy, labor, and class
XI. Communities, religion, ethnicity, and gender
XII. Conflict and violence in the West
XIII. Politics in the West
XIV. The imaginary West
XV. The Depression and world wars in the West
XVI. The modern and future West
XVII. The West in the American mind
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CCD |
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MCC |
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PPCC |
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