HIST& 158 History of US III: The Recent American Past (5 credits)
Distribution Area Fulfilled Social Sciences; General Transfer Elective
Formerly HIST 243 - CCN
Course Description
History of the United States from the early 20th century to the present day. Emphasis on appreciating diversity and struggles for freedom and investigating competing legacies of the “American century” at home and abroad.
Course Content
A. Progressivism and its Discontents B. The United States and the Interwar World C. The Great Depression and the New Deal D. American society and the Second World War E. The Politics of Cold War America F. Civil Rights and Black Power G. The 60s and Vietnam H. Native American’s 20th Century I. Neoliberal America J. The United States today
Student Outcomes
1. Describe the major ideas, values, and events that shaped the United States since 1900, including their historical meaning and significance for today.
2. Evaluate competing historical interpretations of the United States since 1900, both scholarly and in popular memory.
3. Discuss the importance of class, gender, immigration status, race, religion, and sexuality to people’s experience in the United States since 1900.
4. Analyze the development of American institutions and movements for social justice 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 the United States since 1900.
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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