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1 Common Course Syllabus Dr. Laura Graves, Professor of History Department of History Department: Social Sciences Discipline: History Course Number: HISTORY 1302 Course Title: American History Since 1877 Credit: 3 Lecture, 0 Lab Satisfies a core curriculum requirement? Yes, Social Science and ALL Undergraduate Degrees Prerequisites: TSI compliance in Reading Available Formats: Conventional, INET, ITV Campus: Levelland, Reese, ATC, Plainview Textbook: Varies according to instructor, but for ALL dual credit classes: The American Nation, Carnes and Garraty, Pearson & Longman, Thirteenth Edition. Volume One ISBN 0-205-56805-X, 2008. Course Specific Instructions: Each instructor will attach his/her course with specific instructions. Course Description: This course is a survey of United States history from 1877 to the present. Primary emphasis is placed on ideas and social concepts that constitute the American heritage. Course Purpose: To acquaint students with the diversity of American history and to promote critical thinking in interrelating the past to the present. Fundamentally, the course promotes general understanding of a body of knowledge any literate person should possess about the history of his own country. Course Requirements: To maximize a student’s potential to complete this course, he/she should attend all class meetings, complete all homework assignments and examinations in a timely manner, and complete all other projects or papers as assigned in the instructor’s specific instructions. Course Evaluation: See the instructor's course information sheet for specific items used in evaluating student performance. Attendance Policy: Whenever absences become excessive and in the instructor's opinion, minimum course objectives cannot be met due to absences, the student will be withdrawn from the course. Each instructor will have additional information about attendance on his/her course information sheet.2 Student Learning Outcomes: Students who have completed this course will be expected to:  demonstrate knowledge and understanding of major perspectives in  American history.  demonstrate knowledge and understanding of cause and effect of major events of the past.  understand the nature of history as a fundamental subject in the study of humanity.  evaluate the diversity of interpretations of the past and the quality of evidence for that interpretation.  tolerate ambiguity in explanations of the past and realize that historical explanations will often be complex and tentative  apply historical knowledge with caution to current events, seeing common threads of development of the past with the present. Through course assignments, papers, activities, and assessments, students will:  demonstrate the ability to read and write clearly and concisely,  value diversity and differences in people,  explore relationships of ideas and see their similarities and differences,  gain a basic understanding of the career fields related in the major,  assimilate and synthesize information,  integrate ideas across the curricula, and  interrelate the past to the


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