STANDARD COMPETENCIES:

 

 I.      Comprehend the background of African history, culture, and diaspora and their impacts on African Americans.

 II.     Demonstrate knowledge and analysis of the main events, people, and trends of African American history.

 III.    Apply new views of African American history to understand the impacts African Americans had as shapers of intellectual and cultural history, and drivers of political reform.

 IV.     Synthesize both the historical uniqueness of African Americans and their interrelationships with other Americans into a more holistic picture of American history.

 V.      Evaluate the changing historical interpretations of African American history and the sources that represent them.

 VI.    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

 VII.     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.      African American History as a Field of Study

 II.     Africa and the Slave Trade

 III.    African Americans in the American Colonies

 IV.     Southern Slavery

 V.      The African American in the Antebellum North

 VI.     Black Families and Communities

 VII.    The Civil War and Emancipation

 VIII.   Reconstruction and the Freedmen

 IX.     The Coming of Jim Crow

 X       Self Help Movements

 XI.     The Great Migration

 XII.    Social and Cultural Movements

 XIII.   African Americans in World War

 XIV.    The Civil Rights Movement

 XV.     Black Nationalism

 XVI.    Modern and Future African Americans