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 U.S. History since 1945.

 4.  Develop narrative structures and arguments based on evidence.

 5.  Compare and contrast how peoples, groups, cultures, and institutions change over time in U.S. History since 1945.

 6.  Analyze events in U.S. History since 1945 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.    Effects of World War II

 II.   Cold War America

 III.  The fifties and the culture of abundance

 IV.   The Civil Rights movements

 V.    Camelot and the New Frontier

 VI.   From Vietnam to Watergate

 VII.  Social and sexual revolutions

 VIII. The Reagan Era and the New Right

 IX.   The “Me” generation

 X.    End of the Cold War and a New World Order

 XI.   Globalization and its discontents

 XII.   America at 2000

 XIII. 9/11 and the new wars for empire

 XIV.  Historical expectations for the 21st Century