Courses

After completing this course, you will be able to:

• Identify and evaluate the major controversies, issues, personalities, problems and trends in U.S. history up to 1865.
• Evaluate trends and issues in intellectual and cultural history and be able to relate them to topics in U.S. History.
• Determine the relationship between local and national issues and events.
• Place issues and events of U.S. History in a global context.
• Analyze the trials and contributions of the many cultures that make up American society.
• Recognize the role of diversity in American society.
• Exhibit comprehension of the historical process of continuity and change.
• Appraise how and why the historical interpretations of the controversies, issues, personalities, and problems have changed over time.
• Analyze the extent to which historical and contemporary American society has embraced the ideals of the Colonial, Revolutionary, and Constitutional periods.
• Describe the ways geography has impacted historical processes.
• Read and interpret maps.
• Develop skills in critical thinking, collaboration, and organization.
• Undertake research using a variety of materials.
• Differentiate between primary and secondary sources.
• Analyze, synthesize, and interpret primary and secondary sources and clearly communicate results using a variety of media.
• Formulate a convincing historical argument using primary and secondary sources.