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Dec 11, 2024
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HIST 151 - Early America - U.S. History Credits: 3 Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Description: This course is a survey of the origins of American civilization: native American societies in pre-Columbian and colonial times; European discovery, exploration, conquest and settlement of the Americas; Iberian, French and African elements in the early Americas; 17th and 18th century English colonial development; the Revolutionary era and the founding of the U.S.; and Federalist and Jeffersonian America to the early 19th century.
Prerequisites: None. Corequisites: None. Recommended: None.
Course Category: Liberal Arts | Humanities or Social Sciences This course counts toward Schoolcraft’s General Education Requirements. This course counts toward a Michigan Transfer Agreement General Education Requirement.
This Course is Typically Offered: Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall Check Course Availability
Course Competencies
- Demonstrate a clear, factual understanding of the historical development of early America.
- Evaluate the human experience as it relates to the historical period covered by the course.
- Analyze the role geography played in the historical period covered by the course.
- Relate the human experience-using history-to contemporary times.
- Analyze historical evidence of the human experience/culture for the period covered by the course.
- Distinguish between historical artifacts and other types of sources concerning history.
- Incorporate historical artifacts and other scholarly sources concerning history into their writing and research.
- Demonstrate digital literacy, especially as it relates to the study of history.
- Examine the multinational roots of American culture.
- Examine the formation and major provisions of the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
- Identify major issues in the Revolutionary War.
- Identify major military issues in which the American colonies were involved.
- Discuss the role of the United States in an international/global context.
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