9/7/2024 6:18:00 AM	HIST 17.2 Course Outline as of Fall 2010	Changed Course
CATALOG INFORMATION
Discipline and Nbr:  HIST 17.2	Title:  U S HIST 1877 TO PRESENT
Full Title:  U.S. History from 1877
Last Reviewed:1/27/2020

Units		Course Hours per Week			Nbr of Weeks	Course Hours Total
Maximum	3.00	Lecture Scheduled	3.00		17.5 max.	Lecture Scheduled	52.50
Minimum	3.00	Lab Scheduled	0		6 min.	Lab Scheduled	0
		Contact DHR	0			Contact DHR	0
		Contact Total	3.00			Contact Total	52.50
		Non-contact DHR	0			Non-contact DHR Total	0

Total Out of Class Hours:  105.00

Total Student Learning Hours: 157.50

Title 5 Category:  AA Degree Applicable
Grading:  Grade or P/NP
Repeatability:  00 - Two Repeats if Grade was D, F, NC, or NP
Also Listed As: 
Formerly:  HIST 17B

Catalog Description:

A survey of  United States history from 1877 to the present.  This course will focus on social, political, economic, and cultural events that have helped shape the history of the United States.

Prerequisites/Corequisites:

Recommended Preparation:
Eligibility for ENGL 1A or equivalent

Limits on Enrollment:

Schedule of Classes Information
Description:

A survey of the history of the United States from 1877 until the present.  This course will focus on social, political, economic, and cultural events that have helped shape the history of the United States.

(Grade or P/NP)
Prerequisites:
Recommended:Eligibility for ENGL 1A or equivalent
Limits on Enrollment:
Transfer Credit:CSU;UC.
Repeatability:00 - Two Repeats if Grade was D, F, NC, or NP

ARTICULATION, MAJOR, and CERTIFICATION INFORMATION

Associate Degree:		Effective:	Fall 1981	Inactive:
Area:	D F	Social and Behavioral Sciences American Institutions
CSU GE:	Transfer Area			Effective:	Inactive:
	D	Social Science		Fall 2011
	D6	History
	X1	U.S. History
	D	Social Science		Fall 2010	Fall 2011
	D1	Anthropology and Archeology
	D2	Economics
	D3	Ethnic Studies
	D5	Geography
	D6	History
	X1	U.S. History
	D	Social Science		Fall 1981	Fall 2010
	D1	Anthropology and Archeology
	D2	Economics
	D3	Ethnic Studies
	D5	Geography
	X1	U.S. History
IGETC:	Transfer Area			Effective:	Inactive:
	4	Social and Behavioral Science		Fall 1981
	4F	History
	XA	U.S. History
CSU Transfer:	Transferable	Effective:	Fall 1981	Inactive:
UC Transfer:	Transferable	Effective:	Fall 1981	Inactive:
C-ID:
CID Descriptor: HIST 140	United States History from 1865	SRJC Equivalent Course(s): HIST17.2

Certificate/Major Applicable: Major Applicable Course

COURSE CONTENT

Outcomes and Objectives:
At the conclusion of this course, the student should be able to:

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

 

1.  Locate on maps the different regions of the US and areas of the world where the US intervenes during this time period.

2.  Recognize the unique contributions and experiences of women, African Americans, Native Americans, and immigrants during this time period.

3.  Analyze how race, gender, class, and ethnicity have been factors in the United States at this time.

4.  Compare and contrast differing opinions on critical historical developments and distinguish between fact and myth.

5.  Demonstrate critical thinking through analysis of historical events and a variety of primary and secondary sources.

Topics and Scope

I. Reconstruction

 A. Presidential Reconstruction

 B. Radical Reconstruction

     1. Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments

     2. Freedmens' Bureau

     3. Election of 1877 and the End of Reconstruction

 C. Segregation Re-instated

     1. Violence

     2. Legal segregation: Plessy v. Ferguson

     3. Sharecropping and Disenfranchisement

II. The West

  A. Reservations

      1. Forced Removal

      2. Assimilation

  B. Chinese Immigration

III. Industrialization and the Corporation

  A. Gilded Age

  B. European Immigration

  C. Unionization

  D. Populism

IV. Imperialism

 A. Hawaii

 B. Spanish American War

V. Progressivism - Challenge to Social Darwinism

 A. Women's challenges

     1. Settlement houses

     2. Women's clubs

      3. Suffrage

 B. African American Challenges

     1. Anti-lynching Movement

     2. DuBois and Washington

VI. World War I

 A. Competition in Europe and the Balance of Power

 B. US Involvement

     1. Committee for Public Information (CPI)

     2. Armistice

     3. Treaty of Versailles

 C. U.S. Post-war isolation

VII. 1920s

 A. Economic Boom

 B. Jazz Age

 C. Red Scare

 D. Causes of the Great Depression

VIII. The Great Depression

 A. Immediate Effects

  B. Hoover's Response

IX. Franklin Delano Roosevelt and  the New Deal

 A. Relief

 B. Reform

X. World War II

 A. Rise of Fascism in Europe and Asia

 B. US Role in Europe and Asia

XI.Cold War

 A. Growing Tensions between the U.S. and Soviet Union

 B. Containment

 C. Domestic Policies

XII. The Fifties

 A. Economic Growth

 B. The Suburbs

 C. Consumerism

XIII. Civil Rights Movement

 A. Effects of WW II

 B. Brown v. Board of Education

 C. Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committeee (SNCC)

 D. Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1965

 E. Radical Voices

 F. Other Liberation Movements

    1. Women

     2. Latinos

    3. Native Americans

    4. Gay Rights

XIV. Cold War in the 1960s

  A. Cuba

       1.  Bay of Pigs Crisis

       2.  Cuban Missile Crisis

  B. Vietnam

      1. France's Role

      2. Gulf of Tonkin

      3. Credibility Gap

      4. Counterculture and Anti-War Movement

      5. Backlash of 1968

      6. Nixon and the Silent Majority

XV. 1970s

 A. Watergate

 B. Energy Crisis

 C. Environmentalism

 D. Iranian Hostage Crisis

XVI. 1980s

A. Reagan and Reaganomics

B. The Rise of the Religious Right

C. Fall of Soviet Union

XVII. 1990s and Beyond

A. Gulf War I

B. Rodney King Riots

C. Clinton Administration

D. Third Wave of Feminism

E. Latino Immigration

F. 9/11

Assignments:

1.  Regular attendance and extensive notetaking in class is expected

2.  Read 1-2 chapters in text and anthologies per week

3.  6-10 pages of out-of-class writing will be assigned.  These assignments will be either reaction papers, analytical essays, or research papers.  An analytical component will be part of these assignment

4.  0-3 quizzes

5.   An in-class blue book midterm and final

6.  Participation  in discussion as directed by instructor

Methods of Evaluation/Basis of Grade.

Writing: Assessment tools that demonstrate writing skill and/or require students to select, organize and explain ideas in writing.		Writing 30 - 50%
Analytical, expository, or research papers
Problem solving: Assessment tools, other than exams, that demonstrate competence in computational or non-computational problem solving skills.		Problem Solving 0 - 0%
None
Skill Demonstrations: All skill-based and physical demonstrations used for assessment purposes including skill performance exams.		Skill Demonstrations 0 - 0%
None
Exams: All forms of formal testing, other than skill performance exams.		Exams 40 - 70%
Essay and multple-choice exams
Other: Includes any assessment tools that do not logically fit into the above categories.		Other Category 0 - 10%
Attendance and participation

Representative Textbooks and Materials:

America:  A Concise History, vol. 2, 4th ed.   Henretta, James A., et al.  Bedford St.Martins:  2010

 

American Passages,  4th ed.  Ayers, Edward L., et al.   Harcourt College Publishers:  2006

 

Unfinished Nation, vol. 2, 5th ed.   Brinkley, Alan.  McGraw Hill:  2008

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