History 151

American Civilization to 1877

Kahrl

Credit hours: 5
GEC categories: 5A
Prerequisites: English 110 completed or concurrent

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Course Objectives: To provide students with a solid knowledge and understanding of the fundamental events, personalities, issues and broad themes of U.S. history to 1877. to encourage an appreciation of history and the historical method. To acquaint the student with some of the sources and methods used by historians. To help the student sharpen analytical, problem solving and writing abilities.

Course Content: The course will consider the significant events and personalities that shaped American history from the establishment of the first permanent English settlement in 1607 through the period of Reconstruction following the Civil War. Lectures will be organized around a chronological narrative stressing fundamentals. The narrative hopefully will stimulate an interest in the excitement and drama of the American past - i.e., revolution, war, slavery, social upheaval - but will also illustrate the nature of historical causation. Students, in other words, will not only be expected to know the "facts" but also to understand and interpret those facts and their interrelationships.

Method of Presentation: Mainly lecture with occasional discussion of the collateral readings.

Method of Evaluation: Two midterms and a final

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