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Course Description

This course is a survey of American civilization within the last hundred years: turn-of-the-century growth and crisis; the Progressive Era and World War I; the 1920s, the Great Depression and the New Deal; World War II and the emergence of the U.S. as a superpower; affluence, consensus and confrontation in the 1950s-1960s; malaise, drift and fragmentation in the 1970s-1980s; and the U.S. in the world of the late 20th century.

Prerequisites

(A requirement that must be completed before taking this course.)

• None.

Course Competencies

Upon successful completion of the course, the student should be able to:

• Explain the historical development of American society in the twentieth-century and beginning of the twenty-first-century, especially its role as a leading world power, from a factual perspective.
• Explain the historical development of American society in the twentieth-century and beginning of the twenty-first-century, especially its role as a leading world power, a conceptual perspective.
• Evaluate the human experience as it relates to the historical period covered by the course.
• Relate the human experience-using history-to contemporary times.
• Analyze the unique geographical history of the regions covered by the course.
• Analyze the role geography played in the regions covered by the course.
• Analyze the role geography played in the historical period covered by the course.
• Explain major constitutional issues that emerged during the historical period covered by the course.
• Identify ways in which American history must be understood in an international context.

Note: This course may not be offered every semester.
Please check the HIST section of the current course schedule for availability.

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