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Course Description

This course is a survey of the expansion, crisis and renewal of the U.S. in the 19th century: demographic, economic, social and cultural change in Jacksonian America; the North and antebellum reform movements; the South and slavery; the West and territorial conquest and settlement; sectional struggle, the Civil War and Reconstruction; and emergence of modern, urban, industrial America to the beginning of the 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 civilization from a fledgling republic in the early nineteenth-century to an emerging world power on the eve of the twentieth-century from a factual perspective.
• Explain the historical development of American civilization from a fledgling republic in the early nineteenth-century to an emerging world power on the eve of the twentieth-century from 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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