Courses may be offered in one of the following modalities:
If you are enrolled in courses delivered in traditional or hybrid modalities, you will be expected to attend face-to-face instruction as scheduled.
| Semester: | Spring 2025 |
| Number: | 0136-266-001 |
| Instructor: | David Campmier |
| Days: | Monday Wednesday 8:35 am - 9:50 am |
| Note: | Traditional In-Person Class |
| Location: | Garden City |
| Credits: | 3 |
| Course Materials: | View Text Books |
| Description: |
Students will examine the origins, conduct, and consequences of the American Civil War. Through lecture, discussion, and primary and secondary sources, students will study how the United States changed between the 1840s and the 1870s, paying particular attention to the social, cultural, political, economic, and diplomatic developments of that era. (Distribution Reqs:Humanities) |
| Learning Goals: |
Critical thinking will be exercised when students read secondary sources for historical context, while analyzing primary source documents that correspond to the unit topics and chronology. Communication and writing skills will be exercised through class participation, three (3) brief writing assignments and one paper. Two non-cumulative in-class examinations will test student mastery of content and historiography. The purpose of this course is to encourage you to move beyond memorization of factual information. Instead, your grade will depend on your ability to explain the causes and effects of past events, to describe the views of different people and cultures and explain the terms of their interaction, to understand how those of different backgrounds experience historical events and processes in different ways, to trace and explain changes over time, and to explain intellectual debates and disagreements in context. With this end in mind, these are the course learning goals: 1) Critical Thinking: Students hoping to do well in this course will demonstrate the ability to address a question or problem, to formulate a clear position or point of view, and to support their views with appropriate evidence. 2) Critical Reading: Students hoping to do well in this course will understand that no historical source or historical explanation presents the simple, unvarnished truth about the past and will demonstrate the ability to ask questions of texts as they read them. 3) Taking Good Notes: Students hoping to do well in this course will actively work on improving their note-taking. This means continually evaluating whether your notes contain just enough of the right sort of information to assist in studying for the exams. 4) Writing and Sharing Ideas: Students hoping to do well in this class will approach every question—whether posed in class, on an exam, or in a paper topic—with an eye toward presenting a clear and persuasive answer. *The learning goals displayed here are those for one section of this course as offered in a recent semester, and are provided for the purpose of information only. The exact learning goals for each course section in a specific semester will be stated on the syllabus distributed at the start of the semester, and may differ in wording and emphasis from those shown here. |
» View Other Sections of this Course