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HIS 260
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Title: | US Foreign Relat Hist: HI1 |
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Long Title: | US Foreign Relations History: GT-HI1 |
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Course Description: | Surveys the history of United States foreign relations from the colonial era to the present and includes the pertinent political, military, economic, diplomatic, social, religious, ideological and cultural topics. This course focuses on developing, practicing, and strengthening skills historians use while constructing knowledge and studying a diverse set of narratives through the 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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Course Notes: | Entered new course 1/10/07 s@ |
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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 U.S Foreign Relations History.
4. Develop narrative structures and arguments based on evidence.
5. Compare and contrast how peoples, groups, cultures, and institutions change over time in the survey of U.S Foreign Relations History.
6. Analyze events in U.S Foreign Relations 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 U.S Foreign Relations History.
REQUIRED TOPICAL OUTLINE:
I. Colonial North America in global context
II. The Federalists and foreign policy
III. The Jeffersonian Republicans and foreign policy
IV. Continental expansion and foreign policy
V. American Civil War and foreign policy
VI. Overseas expansion and the Open Door
VII. “Big Stick” diplomacy
VIII. Woodrow Wilson and World War I
IX. Interwar relations with the world
X. World War II
XI. The Cold War
XII. The Korean War
XIII. JFK and the “New Frontier”
XIV. The Vietnam War
XV. Reagan/Bush and the end of the Cold War
XVI. The new world order
XVII. The war on terrorism
XVIII. 21st century challenges
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ACC |
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CCD |
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FRCC |
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Pikes Peak State College |
PPCC |
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