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Course: |
HIS 243
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Title: | Hist of Modern China: HI1 |
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Long Title: | History of Modern China: GT-HI1 |
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Course Description: | This course traces the political, ideological, economic, religious, social, and cultural developments of modern China from the Qing dynasty through the political and economic revolutions of the 20th century. |
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Min Credit: | 3 |
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Course Notes: | Entered new course 11/11/09 s@ |
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Origin Notes: | Aims |
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General Notes: | revised competencies entered 11/30/10 LK |
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. Qing Dynasty
II. Trade and Foreign visitors
III. The Opium War and colonial interventions
IV. Taiping Rebellion and Qing Restoration
V. Reform and Revolution
VI. The Republic and its destruction
VII. The rise of the Guomindang
VIII. The Long March
IX. World War II
X. The People's Republic and the Korean War
XI. The Great Leap Forward
XII. The Cultural Revolution
XIII. Deng Xiaoping
XIV. The Economic miracle
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