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| CATALOG INFORMATION
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| Discipline and Nbr:
HIST 17.2 | Title:
U S FROM 1877-PRES |
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| Full Title:
History of the United States from 1877 to Present |
| 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 |
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| | 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:
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History of the United States from the Reconstruction Era to present.
Prerequisites/Corequisites:
Recommended Preparation:
Eligibility for ENGL 1A or equivalent
Limits on Enrollment:
Schedule of Classes Information
Description:
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History of the United States from the Reconstruction Era to the present.
(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
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| 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 | | |
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| IGETC: | Transfer Area | | Effective: | Inactive: |
| | 4 | Social and Behavioral Science | Fall 1981 | |
| | 4F | History | | |
| | XA | U.S. History | | |
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| CSU Transfer: | Transferable | Effective: | Fall 1981 | Inactive: | |
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| UC Transfer: | Transferable | Effective: | Fall 1981 | Inactive: | |
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| 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:
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Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. Relate lecture materials, audio-visual presentations and textual
readings into a coherent base for study of history.
2. Recognize that history is not dogma; that it is a process of
interaction between factual sources and those who interpret
them.
3. Demonstrate critical thinking and analytical skills in a series of
objective tests, written examinations and critical papers that
probe the American past.
4. Apply historical learning to in-class discussions of past
controversies and contemporary concerns.
5. Integrate geographical knowledge with historical study - the human
study moves through both space and time.
6. Identify and employ atypical and non-traditional source materials
such as fiction, music, cinema and sport to study American
popular culture.
7. Examine the contributions of women, racial and ethnic minorities
and other under-represented groups to the formulation of America
ideals and institutions.
8. Question their own values and popular myths as well as conventional
historical analysis.
9. Synthesize the ideas of past and current historians and (from this
synthesis) develop their own means of addressing fundamental
historical questions of causation and consequence.
10. Debate the claim that the heritage and institutions of the United
States are to some degree unique and explore the causational
rationale that underwrites this uniqueness.
11. Interpret our nation's history so that it can be applied to one's
everyday life as an individual and as a citizen.
Topics and Scope
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1. Review of Reconstruction, Segregation and the New South
A. From presidential to radical reconstruction
B. The social and economic meaning of freedom
C. The compromise of 1877 and end of Reconstruction
D. Southern agriculture and Black labor.
E. White violence, Jim Crow and the politics of segregation.
F. The New South and Industrialization.
2. An industrializing people.
A. Railroads west: exploiting an empire.
B. Smokestack and sweatshops: America industrializes and
urbanizes.
C. Industrial plutocracy: captains of industry or robber barons?
D. The labor movement and changes in work and leisure.
E. Gilded age politics: the populist crusade.
F. From isolation to empire: America looks outward.
3. The modernizing people - 1900-1945.
A. Progressivism: social justice, confronts industrial capitalism.
B. Black America and Progressivism: Booker T. Washington
and W.E.B. DuBois
C. The great war: America emerges as super power.
D. The roaring twenties: a speeding America crashes and burns.
E. The great depression.
F. The new deal and voices of protest.
4. A resilient people - 1945-1990.
A. World war II: from isolation to intervention.
B. World war II: the homefront
C. The origins of the cold war.
D. The frenetic fifties: McCarthyism and materialism.
E. Rebellion in an age of reaction: the civil rights movement.
F. Vietnam: An American tragedy.
G. The turbulent sixties: dissent and reform:
students, women, and anti-war movement.
H. Nixon and Watergate: Shock compounds tragedy.
I. America on the rebound: the Reagan eighties.
Assignments:
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1. Regular attendance and extensive notetaking in class is expected
and assumed.
2. Read and study approximately 1-2 chapters in text and anthologies
per week.
3. Read and write papers in response to assigned or approved books
and/or articles.
4. Participate in discussions as directed by the instructor.
5. Prepare for objective quizzes.
6. Extensive in-class essay mid-term and final examinations.
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 - 60% |
| Quizzes, essay 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:
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Edward L. Ayers, et al, AMERICAN PASSAGES, Harcourt College Publishers,
2000.
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