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Apr 26, 2024
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HIS 152 - U.S. History Since 1877
Last Date of Approval: Spring 2021
3 Credits
Total Lecture Hours: 45
Total Lab Hours: 0
Total Clinical Hours: 0
Total Work-Based Experience Hours: 0
Course Description:
This course includes the political, socio-cultural, and economic factors in the development of American Civilization from the end of Reconstruction to the present. This course will focus on Industrialization; the emergence of the United States as a great power; boom and depression; war, internationalism and Cold War; and modern industrial society. Throughout this course, students must read primary and secondary sources through a critical lens and use critical thinking skills to solve problems. Additionally, this course reinforces students written communication skills through essays and verbal communication skills through class discussions and presentations. Importantly, students are asked to think critically, consider the viewpoints of others, and effectively express themselves, all of which will benefit them in the classroom, in life, and in the workforce.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: None
Mode(s) of Instruction: traditional/face-to-face, virtual, and/or online
Credit for Prior Learning: There are no Credit for Prior Learning opportunities for this course.
Course Fees: None
Student Learning Outcomes and Objectives:
Student Learning Outcomes:
- Interpret the various ethnic, economic, political, geographical, and nationalistic factors responsible for the creation of the American West.
- Analyze the rise of the supremacy of Industrial America in the 19th Century and its impact on American culture and Western civilization in general.
- Explore the impact of urbanization, imperialism, consumerism, the rise of the middle class, Progressivism, and the Great Depression on American political and social culture.
- Understand the impact of twentieth-century wars and the global hostility in the post-World War II era.
- Identify and describe the factors that brought about the end of the post-World War II Cold War era and its impact on the global village.
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