11/21/2024 6:16:26 AM	HIST 17.2 Course Outline as of Fall 2020	Changed Course
CATALOG INFORMATION
Discipline and Nbr:  HIST 17.2	Title:  U S HIST 1877 TO PRESENT
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
		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 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
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

Student Learning Outcomes:
At the conclusion of this course, the student should be able to:

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:

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

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:

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:

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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