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Dec 11, 2024
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HIST 152 - 19th Century America - U.S. History Credits: 3 Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Description: This course is a survey of the expansion, crisis and renewal of the U.S. in the 19th century: demographic, economic, social and cultural change in Jacksonian America; the North and antebellum reform movements; the South and slavery; the West and territorial conquest and settlement; sectional struggle, the Civil War and Reconstruction; and emergence of modern, urban, industrial America to the beginning of the 20th 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 nineteenth-century 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.
- Explain major constitutional issues that emerged during the historical period covered by the course.
- Identify ways in which American history must be understood in an international context.
- Identify major issues in the American Civil War.
- Identify major military issues in which America was involved.
- Discuss the role of the United States in an international/global context.
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