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HIS 247
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Title: | 20th Century World History:HI1 |
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Long Title: | 20th Century World History: GT-HI1 |
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Course Description: | Investigates the major political, social, and economic developments, international relationships, scientific breakthroughs, and cultural trends that have shaped the various global regions, empires, and nation-states since the late nineteenth century. 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-HI1category. |
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Min Credit: | 3 |
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Course Notes: | Request for title change 2/19/08 s@ |
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Origin Notes: | CNCC |
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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 20th Century World History.
4. Develop narrative structures and arguments based on evidence.
5. Compare and contrast how peoples, groups, cultures, and institutions change over time in 20th Century World History.
6. Analyze events in 20th Century World 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. Overview of the 20th Century
II. European crisis
A. World War I: the decline of European ascendancy
B. Social and political restructuring
C. Economic crisis
D. Political and social upheaval: (authoritarian movements)
E. Intellectual and artistic life
III. The struggle against Colonialism
A. Latin America
B. Sub-Sahara Africa
C. Asia
IV. Superpower rivalry and the post-cold world
A. World War II & the crisis of European dominance
B. Restructuring international relations
C. Post-industrial society
D. The Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and the collapse of communism
V. Independence movements in the developing world
A. Latin America
B. Sub-Sahara Africa
C. The Middle East and North Africa
D. Asia
VI. The legacy of the 20th century
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ACC |
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Community College of Aurora |
CCA |
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Colorado Community College Sys |
CCCS |
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Community College of Denver |
CCD |
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Colorado Northwestern CC |
CNCC |
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Front Range Community College |
FRCC |
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Lamar Community College |
LCC |
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Morgan Community College |
MCC |
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Northeastern Junior College |
NJC |
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Pueblo Community College |
PCC |
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Pikes Peak State College |
PPCC |
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Red Rocks Community College |
RRCC |
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Trinidad State College |
TSJC |
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