United States History II Syllabus for 2015-2016
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Course

HIST-1302-DC002 United States History II

Prerequisites

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

Course Description

A survey of the social, political, economic, cultural and intellectual history of the United States from the Civil War/Reconstruction era to the present. United States History II examines industrialization, immigration, world wars, the Great Depression, Cold War and post-Cold War eras. Themes that may be addressed in United States History II include: American culture, religion, civil and human rights, technological change, economic change, immigration and migration, urbanization and suburbanization, the expansion of the federal government and the study of U.S. foreign policy.

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Hours

(3 sem hrs; 3 lec)

Class Type

Dual Credit Course

Syllabus Information

Textbooks

Farmer, Brian R., James Powell, Carl N. Degler and Vincent P. De Santis. Foundations of American History Volume 2: Since 1865. Twelfth Edition. Redding, CA: BVT Publishing, 2015.  ISBN: 978-1-62751-785-0

 

Farmer, Brian R., ed. Retrieving the American Past: Amarillo College Reader in American History Volume II. Boston, MA: Pearson Custom ebook, 2012.

 

Supplies

Need Internet Access.

Student Performance

Learning Outcomes: 

 

1. Create an argument through the use of historical evidence.

2. Analyze and interpret primary and secondary sources.

3. Analyze the effects of historical, social, political, economic, cultural, and global forces on this period of United States history.

 

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Students are expected to read their syllabi and know what they are supposed to read for each exam. Students are expected to take the exams on the prescribed days. Students are expected to be courteous to each other and to the professor.

Grading Criteria

Synopsis of Grading

                                                                                                Total

Four Exam scores (4 x 100)                                                     400     

Total                                                                                        400

 

Grade Scale

 

360-400  A

320-359  B

280-319  C

240-279  D

0-239     F

Attendance

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Academic dishonesty:

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