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CATALOG INFORMATION
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Discipline and Nbr:
HIST 17.2 | Title:
U S HIST 1877 TO PRESENT |
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Full Title:
United States 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 |
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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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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:
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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.
(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
Student Learning Outcomes:
At the conclusion of this course, the student should be able to:
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1. Analyze the political, economic, cultural, and social developments in the U.S. from 1877 to the present.
2. Evaluate the causes and effects of historical events of both the United States and abroad.
3. Analyze and distinguish between primary and secondary sources as historical evidence.
Objectives:
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At the conclusion of this course, the student should be able to:
1. Integrate geographical knowledge with historical study.
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. Demonstrate critical thinking through analysis of historical events and a variety of
primary and secondary sources.
Topics and Scope
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I. Reconstruction
A. Presidential Reconstruction
B. Radical Reconstruction
1. Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments
2. Freedmen's 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. U.S. 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. U.S. 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
Committee (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
A. Gulf War I
B. Rodney King Riots
C. Clinton Administration
D. Third Wave of Feminism
XVIII. 2000s
A. Latino Immigration
B. 9/11
C. Gulf War II
D. Obama Years
E. Election of Donald Trump
Assignments:
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1. Regular attendance and extensive notetaking in class is expected.
2. Weekly reading assignments of roughly 30-50 pages a week. These assignments will include
both primary and secondary sources.
3. 2000-4000 words of out-of-class writing will be assigned over the semester. These
assignments may be reaction papers, analytical essays, or research papers. The assignments
will critically interpret primary and secondary sources.
4. One to two midterm(s) and a final. For face to face classes at least two of them will be in-class
exams. Essay exams that may include objective questions.
5. Participation in discussion as directed by instructor.
6. More writing may be assigned in online sections.
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% |
Written homework, analytical, expository essays, reviews, research papers including primary and secondary sources | |
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 exams and possible objective exams | |
Other: Includes any assessment tools that do not logically fit into the above categories. | Other Category 0 - 10% |
Participation | |
Representative Textbooks and Materials:
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A Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynchings in the United States, 1892-1893-1894. Wells, Ida B. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. 2010 (classic)
America: A Concise History, vol. 2. 6th ed. Henretta, James A., et al. Bedford St.Martins. 2015 (classic)
American Passages, vol 2. 4th ed. Ayers, Edward L. Harcourt College Publishers. 2011 (classic)
The Feminine Mystique. Friedan, Betty. Norton & Co. 2001 (classic)
Unfinished Nation, vol. 2. 6th ed. Brinkley, Alan. McGraw Hill. 2012 (classic)
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