Objective:
The course objective is to cover a broad survey of American history from 1865 through the New Millennium.
Learning Outcomes:
- Upon completion of the course, the student will be able to analyze the conquest and exploitation of the West
- Label significant American historical events on a timeline
- Examine the social, political, and economic changes in late nineteenth century United States
- Examine the foreign policy of the T. Roosevelt presidency
- Analyze the Age of Progressivism
- Examine America's role in World War I
- Investigate the United States' role in World War II and the beginnings of the Cold War
- Examine post-World War II culture
- Analyze the domestic changes and international challenges faced by the United States after the fall of communism in Europe
- Analyze the role of industrialization on late nineteenth and early twentieth century U.S. society
- Evaluate the cultural challenges of the 1920s and 1930s
- Analyze the political, social, and economic issues of the 1970s
- Examine the Reagan and G.H.W. Bush Administrations' role in American society
General Course Topics:
- The West: exploiting an empire
- Industrial society
- Urban society and political realignments
- Empire and the Progressive Era
- From Roosevelt to Wilson in the Age of Progressivism
- The nation at war
- Modern America and Franklin D. Roosevelt
- World War II and the Cold War
- Affluence and anxiety in the 1960s
- A crisis in confidence, 1969-1980
- The Republican Resurgence, 1980-1992
- The end of the American century