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DISTRICT ACADEMIC SENATE COURSE OUTLINE OF RECORD
REVISION OF EXISTING COURSE
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COLLEGE: Los Angeles Mission College
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COURSE STATUS
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Effective Semester/Year _______ Revised/Updated (date) 1/04
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DESIGNATION:
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COURSE INFORMATION:
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Associate Degree Applicable
A. Subject Code: 498
Non-Associate Degree Applicable
TOP Code: 2205.00 CAN Number: HIST 8
B. Subject Title and Number: (not to exceed 40 spaces): History 11
C. Course Title (not to exceed 60 spaces) : Social and Political History of the United States I
D. Units __3__ hours/wk: lecture __3__; hours/wk: laboratory ___ Total hours/wk __3__
E. Repetition(s): __0__
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DESCRIPTION: As it will appear in the college catalog. (Not to exceed 40 words)
This course is a general survey of the social and political developments that shaped the history of the United States from
before the European Invasions to the Civil War.
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TRANSFER STATUS (Articulation)
 University of California Credit:
 California State University Credit:
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COURSE OBJECTIVES
Content Knowledge -- Upon completion of this course the student will have an understanding of, or be able to apply, the
following principles and concepts:
CONCEPTS:
A. Cultural perception as it relates to confrontation between cultures.
B. The theory of mercantilism applied to colonialism.
C. Constitutional Theory.
D. Federalism.
E. Republicanism.
F. Jeffersonian and Jacksonian democracy
G. Manifest Destiny
H. The Theory of States’ Rights
I. The Concept of a Federal Union
PRINCIPLES:
J. Democratic Governance
K. Popular Sovereignty
L. Individual, State, and Federal Rights
M. Justice under the rule of law
N. Progressivism and reform in a democratic society
O. Separation of Church and State
Exit Skills -- Upon completion of this course the student will have the following skills:
Reading and Comprehension Skills: Ability to accurately read and comprehend a college level history text and collection of
primary source materials.
2. Critical Thinking Skills as demonstrated in the ability to explain, discuss, analyze, evaluate, apply, syunthesize, and inver; this
is to be applied in group discussions and essay examinations.
3. Writing skills in response to open-ended, thought provoking essay questions meeting a minimum standard of writing 400
words in one hour, or in a 7-10 page research term paper.
4. Examine the social, economic, and political structures of the United States.
5. Analyze the United States Constitution and identify its unique features.
6. Discuss the role of immigration in the development of the United States as a world power.
7. Examine the role and influence of major economic interests in the formation of US foreign and domestic policy.
8. Evaluate the role and influence of popular movements in the formation of US foreign and domestic policy.
9. Critique the history of US foreign and domestic policy, as perceived by both the US population and by the world at large.
10. Critique the history of the US political system as perceived by both the US population and by the world at large.
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Resources (identifies, organizes, plans and allocates resources)
A. Time. B. Money.
C.
Material and Facilities. D.
Human Resources.
Interpersonal (works with others)
A. Serves as team member B.
Teaches others
C.
Serves clients/customers
D. Exercises leadership.
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Negotiates. F. Works with diversity.
Information ( acquires and uses information)
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Acquires/Evaluates. B.
Organizes/Maintains.
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Interprets/communicates D.
Uses computers .
Systems (understands complex inter-relationships)
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Understands systems. B.
Monitors/corrects systems.
C.
improves/designs systems.
Technology (works with a variety of technologies)
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Selects. B.
Applies to tasks.
C.
Maintains and troubleshoots equipment.
Fundamentals
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Reading. B.
D. Listening. E.
Thinking Skills
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Creative Thinking. B.
Decision Making.
C.
Problem Solving. D.
Symbolic Thinking.
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Application of learning techniques. F.
Reasoning.
Personal Qualities
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Responsibility.
B.
D.
Self Management E.
Writing. C.
Speaking.
Mathematics.
Self Esteem.
Integrity.
C.
Sociability.
ASSIGNMENTS THAT DEVELOP CRITICAL THINKING
Deducing valid conclusions
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Inducing reliable conclusions
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Identifying, anticipating or
posing problems
X
X
Synthesizing
X
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Comparing and contrasting
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Justifying
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Applying principles
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Solving problems
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Other (describe):
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Other (specify)
X
Preparing
presenting a
talk or
dramatic part
Partici-pating
in physical
fitness or
athletics
participating in
a field trip
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Critical Thinking Forms
conducting an
experiment/
survey
Analyzing
solving computational
problems
writing a
research paper
Check the Student Activities involved in each of the Critical Thinking Forms
writing a short
paper or essay
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SCANS Competencies (Recommended for all courses; required for with all Vocational Education courses) Indicate the SCANS
competencies developed in this course:
Student
Activities
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INSTRUCTIONAL MODES -- Indicate the instructional modes that may be used in meeting the objectives of this course:
Lecture
Lecture/Laboratory
Demonstration
One-on-One Conference
Work Experience
Audio Visual
Field Experience
Small Group Discussions
Collaboration
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Lecture/Discussion
Laboratory
Seminar
Oral Drills
Computer Interactive Assignment
Guest Speakers
Independent/Directed Studies
Dialog
Other (specify): ______________________________
EVALUATION METHODS
Indicate the methods that may be used to determine the student’s final grade which are consistent with the course objectives,
content and scope of the course: (Note: Title 5, section 55002 (a)(2)(A) requires that evaluation must be “at least in part, by means
of essays, or, in courses where the curriculum committee deems them to be appropriate, by problem-solving exercises or skills
demonstrations by students.”)
Standardized Tests
Observation Record of Student Performance
Essays/Essay Tests
Quizzes, Unit Tests, Midterms
Laboratory Reports
Term Papers, Projects, Reports
Problem-Solving Exercises
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Criterion Reference Tests
Homework
Written Compositions
Oral Presentations
Class Participation
Skills Demonstration
Final Exams
TEXTBOOK(S):
List representative* publications, non-print media, software, recommended readings including those materials to be put in the
Library/LRC. *Refer to syllabus for current textbook and materials. (Use additional pages if necessary)
Authors
Titles
Carnes, Garraty
The American Nation, Vol. I
Zinn, Howard A Peoples’ History of the United States
Publishers
Longman
Perennial
Edition/Dates
11th Edition
2003
Non-print media, software and recommended readings:
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SUPPLIES:
List materials and supplies that students may be required to purchase or use for this
course:
Blue or Black Ball point pen, #2 Pencil and Eraser, Scantrons (100 question long form) College ruled paper and/or
notebook, Typing/Printer paper, Computer or computing/typing access.
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18. COURSE CONTENT:
In order to assist with the application of this course by faculty and/or with articulation activities with other institutions, please list
major areas of course content using an 18-week semester format.
Total Time: 18 weeks
Time
Allocated
Topic 1
(3 hrs)
Topic 2
Topic 3
Topic 4
Topic 5
Topic 6
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Topic 8
Topics or Activities (Please be detailed and descriptive. Use additional pages if
necessary)
Introduction to History.
a) Defining History
b) Goals and requirements of the course.
c) Grading and attendance procedures.
America before the Arrival of the Europeans
a) Chronology of Major North American Civilizations to 1492
b) The “Theories”: Bering Straits, Clovis Points, Ice Ages, and other academic
myths.
c) The first 60-100,000 years
d) Domestication of Agriculture
e) Establishment of settled civilizations
Meso-America: Some Principal Civilizations
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Olmecs
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Teotihuacan
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Maya
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Aztecs
South America: Some Principal Civilizations
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Chavin
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Nazca
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Moche
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Inca
North America: Some Principal Civilizations
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Hohokam
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Anasazi
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Mogollon
Europe to 1492.
a) Chronology of Major European Civilizations to 1492.
b) Greco-Roman roots
c) The Rise of Christendom
d) Early Church Thinkers: Greco Roman Thought in a Christian Context.
e) The Papacy and the Divine Right of Kings
f) The Holy Roman Empire
g) The Fall of the Roman Empire
h) The Middle Ages
i) Eastern Orthodox Christianity, the Rise of Islam, the Protestant Reformation,
and the Counter-Reformation
j) The Reconquest/La Reconquista
Portugal, Aragon, and Castille
a) The Christian Nations Theory/the Doctrine of Discovery
b) King Alfonso and Pope Nicolas- The Portuguese explorations
c) the defeat of the Moors
d) The Reconquista and the expulsion of the Jews and Moors
e) Catholicism the official Religion
f) Cristopher Columbus
Review for Mid-Term Examination
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Topic 9
Mid-Term Examination
Topic 10
Topic 17
Invasion and Resistance
a) The Taino/Arawak: Columbus in the Carribean
b) The Aztec: Cortes in Mexico
c) Natchez, Timicua, Coosa, and other Native Nations face De Soto in the South
east
d) The Inca: Pizarro in Peru
The Colonization of Mexico
a) Native Population Decline, 1492-1620
b) Encomiendas and Repartimiento
c) Viceroyalties From New Spain to Rio de la Plata
d) The Mission System
Gender, Race and Class in Colonial Mexico
a) Spanish Women
b) Native Women
c) The Caste System
d) Encomenderos and Caciques
Colonial Wars
a) Portugal and Spain: The Papal Bulls and the Tordesillas Treaty
b) The Defeat of the Spanish Armada
c) The Rise of England as a World Power
d) The War for Spanish Succession
The Bourbon Reforms
a) Economic Reforms
b) Administrative Reforms
c) Criollos and Peninsulares
d) The Enlightenment
Independence
a) Movement Leaders: Hidalgo, Guerrero, Morelos, Victoria, Iturbide
b) The Liberal-Conservative Struggle
c) Political Chaos in Mexico
The United States and Mexico
a) The United States’ Westward Expansion and The Doctrine of Manifest
Destiny
b) Andrew Jackson and The Texas War
c) James Polk and The US War against Mexico
d) The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
e) Loss of Lands and Power: Mexicans in the US Southwest
Review for Final Examination
Topic 18
Final Examination
Topic 11
Topic 12
Topic 13
Topic 14
Topic 15
Topic 16
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19. LIBRARY/LEARNING RESOURCES:
Complete 1-3 in Consultation with College Librarian
1.
LIBRARY BOOK COLLECTION - Review the library book collection by searching the online catalog. Explain how the
book collection supports or does not support the course. Consider age and subject content when determining the
relevancy of the collection to the course.
The LAMC library has ample resources for the adequate fulfillment of the requirements of this course. These include both
electronic books and traditional book sources. Some are aged, but others are up to date. There is, however, a lack of sources on
the history of the British colonies in North America. A sampling of some relevant holdings follows:
Native History of North America before 1492
The American Indian : essays from the Pacific Historical Review / by Robert F. Berkhofer, Jr. ... [et al.] ; edited by Norris
Hundley, Jr. ; foreword by Vine Deloria, Jr. Santa Barbara, CA : Clio Books, [1975] c1974.
Letters and notes on the manners, customs, and condition of the North American Indians Letters and notes on the North American
Indians / George Catlin ; edited and with an introd. by Michael Macdonald Mooney.
New York : C. N. Potter : distributed by Crown Publishers, [1975]
Indians of the Americas : The Long Hope (slightly abridged) / by John Collier. New York : New American Library, c1947.
Indians of North America / [by] Harold E. Driver. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1969]
The Red Man's Continent: A Chronicle of Aboriginal America / by Ellsworth Huntington. New Haven : Yale University Press,
1919.
The North American Indians : a sourcebook / edited, and with introd., by Roger C. Owen, James J.F. Deetz [and] Anthony D.
Fisher. New York : Macmillan, [1967]
British History to the US Revolution
The Anglo-Saxon age, c.400-1042 / by D.J.V. Fisher. [London] : Longman, [1973]
Celtic Britain / Charles Thomas. London : Thames and Hudson, c1986.
The History of England : From the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688 / David Hume ; abridged and with an
introd. by Rodney W. Kilcup. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1975.
Armada / by Garrett Mattingly. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1959.
Elizabeth I : The Shrewdness of Virtue / Jasper Ridley. New York, NY : Viking, 1988, c1987.
The British and Spanish Colonies
The Population of the British Colonies in America before 1776: a survey of census data. Wells, Robert V Princeton, NJ: Princeton
University Press, [1975].
Spanish Explorers in the Southern United States, 1528-1543. : The narrative of Alvar Nuñez Cabeca de Vaca, ed. by Frederick W.
Hodge ; The narrative of the expedition of Hernando de Soto by the gentleman of Elvas, ed. by
The Narrative of the Expedition of Coronado, by Pedro de Castañeda, ed. by Frederick W. Hodge. [Austin, Tex.] : Texas State
Historical Association in cooperation with the Center for Studies in Texas History, University of Texas at Austin, c1990.
The American Revolution
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The American Revolution: a history. Wood, Gordon S. Modern library ed. New York: Modern Library, 2002.
The American Revolution. San Diego, Calif.: Greenhaven Press, c2000.
The American Revolution: Opposing Viewpoints. San Diego, CA: Greenhaven Press, c1992.
Religion in a Revolutionary Age. Perspectives on the American Revolution. Charlottesville: Published for the United States Capitol
Historical Society by the University Press of Virginia, 1994.
Patriots: The Men Who Started the American Revolution. Langguth, A. J New York: Simon and Schuster, c1988.
Essays on the American Revolution. Chapel Hill: Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg,
Va., by the University of North Carolina Press, [1973].
Women in the Age of the American Revolution. Perspectives on the American Revolution. Charlottesville: Published for the United
States Capitol Historical Society by the University Press of Virginia, c1989.
George Washington's Opponents: British Generals and Admirals in the American Revolution. Billias, George Athan New York:
Morrow, 1969.
George Washington and the American Revolution. Davis, Burke. 1st ed. New York: Random House, c1975.
A cultural history of the American Revolution: Painting, Music, Literature, and the Theatre in the Colonies and the United States
from the Treaty of Paris to the Inauguration of George Washington, 1763-1789. Silverman, Kenneth. New York: T.Y. Crowell,
c1976.
Causes and consequences of the American Revolution. Wright, Esmond. Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1966.
A New Age Now Begins: A People's history of the American Revolution. Smith, Page. New York: McGraw-Hill, c1976.
The emerging nations and the American Revolution. [1st ed.]. Morris, Richard Brandon. New York: Harper & Row, [1970].
THE CONSTITUTION
The Fourth Amendment: search and seizure. Wetterer, Charles M. Springfield, NJ: Enslow Publishers, c1998.
Sources of ourLiberties; Documentary Origins of Individual Liberties in the United States Constitution and Bill of Rights. Perry,
Richard L., ed. [Chicago] American Bar Foundation c1959.
The Bill of Rights and Beyond, 1791-1991. [Washington, DC]: Commission on the Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution, [1991].
A More Perfect Union: The Creation of the United States Constitution. Washington: National Archives Trust Fund Board, 1978.
The Framing of the Constitution of the United States. [electronic resource]. Farrand, Max. New Haven: Yale University Press,
c1913.
The Constitution in Congress the Federalist period 1789-1801. [electronic resource]. Currie, David P. [Pbk. ed., 1999]. Chicago,
Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1999.
The Making of the Constitution. [electronic resource]. Wood, Gordon S. 1st ed. Charles Edmondson historical lectures; 9th. Waco,
Tex.: Markham Press Fund, Baylor University Press, 1987.
Popular Sovereignty the Constitution in American Political Culture. [electronic resource]. Levin, Daniel Lessard. Representing
Albany: State University of New York Press, c1999.
How Democratic is the American Constitution?. Castle lectures in ethics, politics, and economics. Dahl, Robert Alan. New Haven:
Yale University Press, c2001.
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THE SLAVERY AND CIVIL WAR
The Civil War and the Press. [electronic resource]. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, c2000.
New Jerseyans in the Civil War for Union and Liberty. [electronic resource]. Jackson, William J. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers
University Press, 2000.
A Ruined Land: The End of the Civil War. [electronic resource]. Golay, Michael. New York: Wiley, c1999.
The Abolitionists. Lacy, Dan Mabry. New York: McGraw-Hill, c1978.
American Slavery. San Diego, Calif.: Greenhaven Press, c2000.
2.
PERIODICAL COLLECTION - Review the periodical collection by searching the periodical database. Explain how the
periodical titles held by the college library and the full-text titles in the database are relevant or not relevant to the
course.
The following are scholarly journals available in the library which are relevant to this course. Some have been cancelled,
others are current. The dates beside the journal title are the years which are available.
American Historical Review, 1975 - 1985
Current History, 1989 - current
Aztlan, 1999 - current
Hispanic American Historical Review, 1975 - 1980
Journal of American History, 1975 - 1982
Journal of the West, 1975 - 1984
Pacific Historical Review, 1975 - 1984
Full-text online resources and journals available are also adequate. These include the following:
Journal of American Ethnic History, AZTLAN, Journal of American History, American Historical Review, Southwestern
Historical Quarterly, Western Historical Quarterly, Journal of American Culture, Journal of American and Comparative Cultures.
3. ADDITIONAL MATERIAL - Suggest additional materials for the Library/LRC to purchase
that would support the course.
NA
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CERTIFICATION AND RECOMMENDATION
Subject: HISTORY Number
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Course Title: Social and Political History of the United States I
XX This course meets Title 5 requirements for Associate Degree applicable college credit towards an Associate
of Arts Degree.
___ This course meets Title 5 requirements but does not satisfy the requirements for an Associate Degree
applicable course.
The following college personnel certify that the information and answers above properly represent this course:
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Submitter: John J. Morales/ Jose A. Maldonado
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