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HIS 250
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Title: | African American History: HI1 |
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Long Title: | African American History: GT-HI1 |
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Course Description: | Explores the experiences and contributions of African Americans from the colonial period to the present through the social and economic lives and roles of African Americans, their roles in politics and war, their achievements, and movements for self-help and civil rights. 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: | ACC |
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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 African American History.
4. Develop narrative structures and arguments based on evidence.
5. Compare and contrast how peoples, groups, cultures, and institutions change over time in African American History.
6. Analyze events in African American 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.
12. Identify historiography and evaluate many points of view to build historical arguments within African American History.
REQUIRED 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
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Arapahoe Community College |
ACC |
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Community College of Aurora |
CCA |
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Community College of Denver |
CCD |
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Front Range Community College |
FRCC |
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Pikes Peak State College |
PPCC |
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