PCADE 051 US History and Government (ESL) (5 credits)

Minimum CASAS Reading score of 221 for ABE students

Course Description
The course will provide students with a broad view of America’s 20th Century history and its political structure.

Course Content
A. Sub-periods in the history of the US including Industrialization, Progressivism, Great Depression & The New Deal, World War II & Japanese Internment, Cold War, Civil Rights Movement, Vietnam War
B. Significant 20th Century economic, cultural, scientific, diplomatic, and technological developments

Student Outcomes
Synthesize historical information and significance from knowledge about everyday life, personal experiences/interest, cultural frameworks, and fundamental documents in order to understand how to generate understanding from multiple data points. Identify significant historical events, their chronology, and their impact on society, past and present in order to gain an understanding of the current political context.  Demonstrate how changes in foreign policy, military affairs, economic policy, and the actions of local communities leads to change in legislation and impacts on national and local communities in order to understand the relationship between different levels of govenment and communities. Analyze how diverse groups of people in the US in global context have historically lived, acted, and thought in order to develop empathy for historical people and situations. Reflect on understanding of historical context in order to develop empathy for the contemporary world and the diverse people who live in that world.  Evaluate both primary and secondary sources in order to critically understand points of view.

Degree Outcomes
Core Abilities: Information Competency: Graduates will be able to seek, find, evaluate and use information and employ information technology to engage in lifelong learning. Intercultural Engagement: Graduates demonstrate self-efficacy in intercultural engagement to advance equity, diversity, and inclusion through reflections and expressions of cultural humility, empathy, and social and civic engagement and action. Further, graduates examine how identities/positionalities such as races, social classes, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, and cultures impact perceptions, actions, and the distribution of power and privilege in communities, systems, and institutions.

Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50