HIST 153 - History of Michigan
Credit Hours: 3
Billable Contact Hours: 3
Prerequisites: ENGL 090 and RDG 090 or qualifying scores on accepted placement tests
C6 General Education Social Systems Satisfier Y
MTA Social Sciences Satisfier Y
Session Cycle: WI
This course is a survey of Michigan history from the French exploratory period to the present. It will examine how the economic, political and social development of Michigan relates to American history. Local history and the collection and interpretation of primary historical materials are emphasized. This includes utilizing primary historical materials and fitting this information into a local and a national context.
Notes: Humanities/Social Sciences Division
Theory Hours: 45
Learning Outcomes:
1. Understand the fundamental ideas and terminologies Michigan history, such as, but not limited to the major events, ideas, and material practices of cultures in the region of Michigan.
Applies to General Education Social Systems Competency Objectives A and B.
2. Understand the social, economic, and cultural systems of Michigan in relation to their complex interactions with one another, in addition to their connection to American history.
Applies to General Education Social Systems Competency Objectives A, B, C, and D.
3. Apply the range of skills, via historical methodology, it takes to decode the historical record because of its incomplete, complex, and contradictory nature.
Applies to General Education Social Systems Competency Objectives A, B, C, and D.
4. Create historical arguments and narratives that respond to important historiographical debates connected to the course, particularly within the context of the provisional nature of knowledge, the disciplinary preference for complexity, and the comfort with ambiguity that history requires.
Applies to General Education Social Systems Competency Objectives A, B, C, and D.
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