HIST 160 - Civil War and Reconstruction
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 includes a survey of the Civil War era in U.S. history, defined broadly from the Mexican American World to the lingering aspects and debates of the era in our modern world. Special emphasis is on economic modernization, slavery and race, the causes of the war, military aspects, reconstruction processes, and, importantly, the concept of historic memory surrounding our nation’s defining conflict. Ultimately, we learn not only about the Civil War, but how America chooses to remember it today in its art, culture, politics, and/or film and literature.
Notes: Humanities/Social Sciences Division
Theory Hours: 45
Learning Outcomes:
1. Understand the fundamental ideas and terminologies in Civil War, such as, but not limited to the major events, ideas, and material practices of cultures.
Applies to General Education Social Systems Competency Objectives A and B.
2. Understand the social, economic, and cultural systems of the Civil War and their complex interactions with one another, in addition to their influence on the modern world.
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 with a particular emphasis on historical memory.
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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