Welcome, Fall 2015!

Wednesday, August 5, 2015

Welcome, Fall 2015!

Greetings!

Welcome to the course blog for History 152, Section 005, meeting Monday/Thursday, 11:10 AM to 12:25 PM with Dr. Mariel Isaacson.

The course textbooks are Eric Foner's Voices of Freedom: A Documentary History, Volume 2, Fourth Edition and Give Me Liberty! An American History, Volume 2, Fourth Seagull edition. New and used copies are available at Shakespeare and Company, located at 939 Lexington Avenue. You may purchase ebooks if you prefer.

I'm looking forward to meeting you on Thursday, August 27 for our first class meeting!

Have a great summer!

4 comments:

MarielAugust 27, 2015 at 11:41 AM
Hi Section 005! Wake up!
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Dylan SmithAugust 28, 2015 at 1:03 PM
Hi Professor, I already have both of those books but in Second Edition, not Fourth. Do I absolutely have to purchase the Fourth Editions?
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MarielAugust 28, 2015 at 2:04 PM
Hi Dylan,
You can use any edition of Volume 2 of the textbook (Give Me Liberty), but different editions of Voices of Freedom will have different documents that will not correspond to the required reading assignments.
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Course Objectives

This is a broad survey course designed to introduce students to basic themes and events in American History, as well as college-level research and study skills. As this is a writing intensive course, students will develop critical writing skills through online discussion, essay writing and document analysis. We will cover material beginning with the Civil War and Reconstruction and extending through the Presidential election of 2000.

By the end of this course students will have experience evaluating historical materials, constructing and supporting an argument, and performing basic research. Students will also work collaboratively in-class and online to discuss material, analyze primary documents and develop note-taking and study skills.

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Course Learning Outcomes

During this course, students will:

• identify and apply the key historical concepts of change-over-time, cause-and-effect, agency, historical empathy, and continuity and discontinuity, and recognize how these concepts are employed in the historical method

• analyze and interpret primary sources with attention to audience, authorship and context

• recognize some of the ways in which historians have conflicting interpretations of the past

• produce a paper with a clear thesis and appropriate citations based on strong evidence drawn from historical sources

• identify and discuss the importance of contact and conquest, colonial foundations, revolution and Constitution, immigration, geographic expansion, experiences of native peoples, role of women, slavery and African American experiences and the sectional crisis leading to the Civil War