Course

Course Summary
Credit Type:
Course
ACE ID:
SOPH-0025
Organization's ID:
HIST1002
Organization:
SOPHIA Learning, LLC
Location:
Online
Length:
The course is self-paced, and many learners complete it in 4-8 weeks.
Dates Offered:
Credit Recommendation & Competencies
Level Credits (SH) Subject
Lower-Division Baccalaureate 3 U.S. History Since 1877
Description

Objective:

The course objective is to build student knowledge of key events and figures in the history of the United States from the post-Reconstruction era through 2015. The course emphasizes critical thinking skills and consideration of multiple perspectives through the analysis of primary sources. Additionally, students will learn how to think like a historian by utilizing primary and secondary sources to better understand historical events and applying a historian’s lens to real-world and modern-day situations.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Interpret or analyze a primary source to draw conclusions about a historical event
  • Understand the historian's craft and tools that historians use to analyze and interpret history
  • Understand factors that lead to the U.S. involvement in foreign wars and the role the U.S. played in each war
  • Identify the primary initiatives, accomplishments, or downfalls of the presidential administrations between the era of reconstruction and modern day
  • Recognize ways in which political parties and practices have evolved over time between the era of reconstruction and modern day
  • Apply different historical lenses in order to critically analyze historical events through a variety of perspectives
  • Draw connections between events of the past and the present
  • Understand the economic, social, political, and cultural climate of the period following Reconstruction in the United States through modern day
  • Recognize ways in which political and cultural trends helped to shape American politics
  • Understand the people, successes, and movements associated with Civil Rights during the mid 20th century

General Topics:

  • The Historian’s Practice
  • Western Conquest and Indian Assimilation
  • Homesteading: Dreams and Realities
  • The West and the South: 1877-1900
  • Industrialization and Consumer Culture
  • The Gilded Age
  • The Era of Industrialization: 1877-1900
  • The Election of 1896
  • Populism
  • The Creation of an American Empire
  • Theodore Roosevelt and the Square Deal
  • The Progressive Era
  • The Roaring 20s
  • The Great Depression
  • Roosevelt’s New Deal
  • World War II
  • The Cold War
  • The Civil Rights Movement
  • Culture, Politics, and Economics of the 1960s
  • Johnson’s Vision: The Great Society
  • Culture, Politics, and Economics of the 1970s
  • The Watergate Scandal
  • The End of the Cold War
  • The Reagan 80s
  • A New World Order
  • Globalization and the American Economy
  • America During the 1990s
  • Immigration in the 20th Century
  • 9/11 and the War on Terror
  • America and the World in the 21st Century
Instruction & Assessment

Instructional Strategies:

  • Audio Visual Materials
  • Computer Based Training
  • Lectures
  • Practical Exercises

Methods of Assessment:

  • Examinations
  • Quizzes
  • Written Papers

Minimum Passing Score:

70%
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