History of the United States I Syllabus for 2011-2012
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Course

HIST-1301-040 History of the United States I

Prerequisites

RDNG 0331-minimum grade of C or a score on a state-approved test indicating college-level reading skills

Course Description

A general survey of United States history from the European background to the present. The study includes political, economic, social and cultural aspects of life in this country and follows the development of the United States as a world power.

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Hours

(3 sem hrs; 3 lec)

Class Type

Dual Credit Course

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Textbooks

Kennedy, David, Lizabeth Cohen, Thomas A. Bailey. The American Pageant. 14th ed., Boston: Wadsworth, 2010.

Supplemented by: Cayton, Andrew, Elizabeth Israels Perry, Linda Reed, Allen Winkler. America: Pathways to the Present. Needham, Mass., Upper Saddle River, N.J. Prentice-Hall, 2000.

Heffner, Richard D. A Documentary History of the United States. 8th ed., New York: Penguin Putnam Inc., 2009.
 

Supplies

Pen and notebook to take notes, colored pencils or pens for maps.

Student Performance

After studying the material presented in this course the student will be able to:

1. Trace the development of a stable democratic political system
flexible enough to address the wholesale changes that occurred
since the founding of the nation.

2. Explain how this nation has been peopled form the first inhabitants to
to the many groups that arrived in slavery or servitude during the
colonial period down to the voluntary immigrants of the Civil War era.

3. Evaluate economic and technological changes as they have affected
daily life, work, family organization, leisure, the division of wealth,
and community relations.

4. Delineate the role of religion in our nation.

5. Recount how the recurring reform movements in U.S. history dealt with
economic, political, and social problems in attempting to make their
ideals congruent with reality.

6. Define the changes in our beliefs and values over time and describe how
they have varied among different groups: men and women; non-whites
and whites; and people of different regions, religions, and classes.

7. Describe the role of geographical factors in the history of the U.S.

8. Practice critical thinking and information retrieval skills.
 

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Students are expected to follow all Amarillo College and Ascension Academy policies and procedures.
 

Grading Criteria

Semester test will count for 25% of semester grade. Homework and quizzes will count once; unit tests will count twice to be averaged each six weeks. Research project will count for 16% of semester grade.

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Student attendance is expected in this class.  It is the student's responsibilty to attend.

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