HIST& 156 History of US I: Colonial America and the Early U.S. (5 credits)
Distribution Area Fulfilled Social Sciences; General Transfer Elective
Formerly HIST 241 -CCN
Course Description
History of North America and the United States from first peoples to colonization and the first decades of the American Republic. Emphasis on appreciating diversity and struggles for freedom and investigating competing legacies of early America.
Course Content
A. Geography and earliest human settlement B. Indigenous America and European contact C. Origins of slavery and the invention of race D. Development of British North America E. Religious diversity and the Great Awakening F. Imperial rivalry and war G. Causes of the American Revolution H. Anticolonial revolution in global context I. Founding documents and institutions J. The early United States in world affairs K. Discipline of history, both scholarly and in popular memory, as one way to produce interpretations of the past L. Importance of aspects of social, cultural, and personal identity M. Learn and practice key historical thinking skills of sourcing, contextualization, close reading, and corroboration
Student Outcomes
1. Describe the major ideas, values, and events that shaped the early history of the United States, including their historical meaning and significance for today.
2. Evaluate competing historical interpretations of colonial America and the early United States, both scholarly and in popular memory.
3. Discuss the importance of class, gender, immigration status, race, religion, and sexuality to people’s experience in colonial America and the early United States.
4. Analyze the United States’ founding documents, conflicts, and institutions in both their proper historical context and in their lasting legacies.
5. Apply the key skills of sourcing, contextualization, close reading, and corroboration to create historical arguments about colonial America and the early United States.
6. Discuss the discipline of history as one way to produce interpretations of the past that explain change over time.
Degree Outcomes
Social Sciences: Graduates analyze and interpret social phenomenon using social science theories and methods.
Critical, Creative and Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations.
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.
Information Literacy: Graduates will be critical users, creators, and disseminators of information by examining how information is created, valued, and influenced by power and privilege.
Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50
Potential Methods
Written essays Quizzes Written source analyses In-class or online exams Class presentations Class discussions or discussion boards In-class activities Research projects
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