AMH 2020 - History of the United States II

College of Social and Behavioral Sciences

Credit(s): 3
Contact Hours: 47
Effective Term Fall 2024 (640)

Requisites

Prerequisite ENC 0025 and
(Prerequisite REA 0017 or
Prerequisite EAP 1695 or
Prerequisite an appropriate score on the college placement test)

Course Description

In this course, students will trace the history of the United States from the end of the Reconstruction Era to the contemporary era. Topics will include but are not limited to the rise of industrialization, the United States’ emergence as an actor on the world stage, constitutional amendments and their impact, the Progressive era, World War I, the Great Depression and the New Deal, World War II, the Civil Rights era, the Cold War, and the United States since 1877. State Core Course Description (State Rule 6A-14.0303). This course partially satisfies the writing requirements outlined in the General Education requirements. (Note: Credit is only given for AMH 2020 or AMH 2020H or IDS 1102H.) Effective Fall 2024 and forward, students who successfully complete AMH 2020/H will satisfy the Social Sciences Core requirement. If completed before Fall 2024, the course will satisfy the Social Sciences Elective requirement.

Learning Outcomes and Objectives

  1. *Students will describe the factual details of the substantive historical episodes under study.
  2. *Students will identify and analyze foundational developments that shaped American history since 1877 using critical thinking skills.
  3. *Students will demonstrate an understanding of the primary ideas, values, and perceptions that have shaped American history.
  4. *Students will demonstrate competency in civic literacy.
  5. Students will demonstrate their critical thinking, writing, and civic engagement and skills by:
    1. discussing the motives of historical actors in various historical context in in-class or online discussions.
    2. composing academic research-based analysis and evaluation or other types or papers completed outside the direct classroom experience.
    3. explaining the causal connections between historical events leading to the present.
    4. developing any type of expository, evaluative, persuasive or personal response writing as described in the college publication entitled " A Resource Manual for Writing Across the Curriculum.".
*Major Learning Outcome is set by and in compliance with DOE State Rule 6A-14.0303.

Criteria Performance Standard

Upon successful completion of the course, the student will, with a minimum of 70% accuracy, demonstrate mastery of each of the above stated objectives through classroom measures developed by individual course instructors.

History of Changes

Revised 8/3/83 Revised 8/84 DBT 11/15/ 84 Effective Session 19842 3 YR C&I Review 1992-93 DBT 1/24/96 Effective Session 19961 C&I 11/19/96; DBT 12/17/96 Effective Session 19971. Reformatted 10/26/01 mr 3 Yr Rev Effective 20011 eff20071(0385). Added exclusion eff20091, Effective 20091(0415). Amended prerequisites effective 20112(0450). 3-Year Review 2010: Acceptable As Is C&I Approval: 09/11/2007, BOT Approval: 10/16/2007, Effective Term: Spring 2012 (450).
C&I Approval: 02/17/2024, BOT Approval: 03/19/2024, Effective Term: Fall 2024 (640)

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