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| US History Since 1877 | |||
| US SINCE 1877 | |||
| CLASS CODE: | HIST 121 | CREDITS: 3 | |
| DIVISION: | LANGUAGE & LETTERS | ||
| DEPARTMENT: | HISTORY, GEOGRAPHY, POLITICAL SCIENCE | ||
| GENERAL EDUCATION: | This course fulfills a General Education - American Institutions requirement. | ||
| DESCRIPTION: | This course covers all the major topics of the post-Civil War period in U.S. History with emphasis on the events and movements of the 20th century. | ||
| TAUGHT: | Almost every semester | ||
| CONTENT AND TOPICS: | Industrializaiton, progressivism, WWI & WWII, the Depression, the Cold War, becoming cultural, economic, and a military super-power. | ||
| GOALS AND OBJECTIVES: | Introduce factual timelines and interpretive historic cultural themes. Assess and evaluate specific historic experiences by correlating general cultural historic themes. Defend and debate competing historic interpretations. Comprehend the reality of a historic culture through a more readily accessible personal life. |
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| EFFECTIVE DATE: | August 1988 | ||