HIST& 137: US History 2

Upon successful completion of the course, students should be able to demonstrate the following knowledge or skills:

1. Identify important people, developments, and ideas that have shaped American history from Reconstruction to the end of the twentieth century, including ways historical events and processes have been organized into definable chronological periods.
2. Explain how ideas about democracy, freedom, and individualism found expression in the development of cultural values and institutions.
3. Explain why different political ideas developed alongside of industrialization and how they effected American society into the contemporary age.
4. Explain how different labor systems developed, and explain their effects on worker’s lives and U.S. society.
5. Explain how different group identities, including racial, ethnic, class, region, and religion have emerged and changed over time.
6. Explain the causes of migration to the United States, and analyze immigration’s effects on society.
7. Analyze the reasons for and results of U.S. diplomatic, economic, and military initiatives in North America and overseas.
8. Identify and articulate parallels between challenges of the past and the issues of today in order to provide a better basis for personal responsibility, critical analysis, and empathy for other members of contemporary society.
9. Analyze, synthesize, and present information and knowledge pertaining to American history.
10. Demonstrate communication skills, both written and oral, by employing primary evidence in support of carefully formed conclusions regarding the historical record of the American past.