HIST 110. U S History From Reconstruction
HIST 110.
US History From Reconstruction
Fall 2013 Course Guide & Syllabus
Instructor: Frank Nobiletti
Section: 3
Schedule #:21597
Room: Life Sciences South 248
Time: MONDAY 4 - 6:40 PM
Section: 4
Schedule #:21598
Room: Library Annex 2203 (Inside Dome to Left)
Time: WEDNESDAY 4 - 6:40 PM
Section: 6
Schedule #:21600
Room: Music 120
Time: Tues/Thu 2 - 3:15 PM
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Fall 2013 Hist 110 Master Revised August 2 4, 2013
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Table of Contents
Syllabus/Course Guide Part 1:
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Useful Information
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1.1 Class Contract (Read, Sign & Return to Front Desk in 2nd Week). . . . . .. . . . . . …. 2
1.2. Office, Office Hours, & Contact Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.3. Your “Class Partners” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.4. Texts and Materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5
1.4.1. Required . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.4.12 The ONLY way to properly REGISTER YOUR CLICKER……………..5
1.4.2. Optional . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.5. Class Website on Blackboard (What’s Where) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
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Course Description
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2.1. Course Description…………………... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2.2. Goals and Objectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2.3. Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2.4. Turnitin…… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
2.5. SDSU Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
2.6. SDSU Academic Honesty Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 8
2.7 Plagiarism …………………………………………………………………………..8
2.8. Attendance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
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Assignments & Grading
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3.1. R e q u i r e d O utside Video Assignments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
3.1.1. Outside Video Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10
3.1.2. List of Videos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
3.2. Quizzes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
3.3. Exams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
3.4. Term Paper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
3.5. M i c r o A s s i g n m e n t s … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … 1 2
3 . 6 . Extra Credit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12
3.7. Grading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
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3.8. Tips to Succeed in This Class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
S y l P a r t 2 : Class Calendar: Topics, Readings, and Due Dates
(See Blackboard for separate handout)
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1.1
Useful Information
Office and Office Hours
Office Location:
Arts and Letters 555
Office Hours:
(Preferably by appointment) Wednesday 1 30 -330p m and after
every class. Additional individual times can be arranged.
1.2
Contact Information
Telephone:
(619) 594-2266
Email:
Email: fnobilet@mail.sdsu.edu
I will read all your brief email. I will email back only
if it is something we cannot meet for (or arrange a
future appointment for) after class. To reiterate,
normally you will still need to see me after class for
my response.
Note:
Anytime
you contact me or submit
anything—including any paper or note—it must
have your name and class hour in the upper
right-hand corner.
1.3.
Your “Class Partners”
If you are absent or in need of another copy of something that was sent to you, it is your
obligation to contact a “class partner” for information on what you missed or are missing.
This includes handouts, announcements, assignments, and lecture notes.
Make a list of your class partners below:
Name
Email
Phone
1.
2.
3.
4.
So, exchange phone numbers and/or email with at least two classmates now ! They will be
your class partners. If you email me for information without first emailing and asking your
class partners, you will be docked one point the first time and two points for subsequent
times on whatever assignment or issue is being discussed.
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If after asking your two class partners by email, you still do not have the answer, send me
the question and forward the two emails you have sent to your class partners with their
names and emails. I will be happy to answer all reasonable questions then. I cannot be the
point person for all initial emails on what announcements you missed in class or missed
while reading the syllabus, or the notes you missed when absent.
On the other hand, I am always glad to hear you thoughts, ideas, and suggestions on the
topics and the structure of the course, and questions about the course material—but not the
mechanics that we have gone over or are in the syllabus until you have asked each of your
class partners.
1.4.
Texts and Materials
1.4.1.
Required
1. Give Me Liberty! : An American History, Volume Two, Brief 3 rd Edition, by Eric Foner, 2012, pub.
W.W.Norton
2. Gangs of America: The Rise of Corporate Power and the Disabling of Democracy
by Ted Nace, (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., 2003) or available online for free at
http://www.gangsofamerica.com/gangsofamerica.pdf
3. i-clicker (Some students have gotten them cheaper on line, including Ebay. Be sure you get the most
recent
type
available
in
the
bookstore.)
Important suggestion: tape YOUR NAME on your i-clicker so you don’t accidently bring your roommates!
There will also be assorted handouts of news articles, etc. at various times in the semester.
1.4.12 IMMPORTANT!!!!! REGISTERING YOUR I CLICKER THE ONLY WAY THAT WORKS FOR SDSU:
Go to your Blackboard home page. From the menu on the left click on the uppermost link
which says:  Clicker Registration You MUST use this method
Enter your CLICKER ID (found on the Clicker itself)
Then click Submit, AND WAIT until it confirms that the submission is successful. Do not leave page before
that!
Do not follow the method give on the box the clicker came in. It does not work at SDSU.
If you do not properly register your clicker, you will lose AT LEAST half of the attendance or quiz credit
STARTING THE 3rd class.
Note: For your paper you will choose one book for the course on sale at Aztec Shops from
a list to be posted on Blackboard. (Wait until Guidelines are posted)
1.4.2.
Optional
(For Reference)
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Only if you do not have a style manual—it will help you document your paper properly: A
Pocket Style Manual, Third Edition (or Fourth Edition) by Diana Hacker, (Bedford- St.
Martins, 2000) If you are very familiar with grammar and documentation (using Chicago
style) you may get by referring to Hackers website, which has a sample pa- per with
documentation.
See http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/history/pdf/ HackerBish-CMS.pdf.
If you have Keys For Writers, Fourth Edition by Ann Raimes, you can use it instead of
Hacker.
1.5. Class Website on Blackboard
(What’s Where)
This class will make extensive use of Blackboard, which is located at http://blackboard.
sdsu.edu. Find our course number under the list of your classes to access the course web
site.
The Syllabus, Film Lists (Including films for Extra Credit), and Term Paper Guidelines will be
posted under “Syllabus” section on the course Blackboard page. All else posted will be
under “Course Information” or “Announcements.”
Be sure the registrar’s office (via WebPortal) has your current email.
If you use Hotmail, or a similar provider, be sure your spam filter does not reject
Blackboard’s emails. SDSU will give you a free email address if you like.
BlackBoard Gradebook: If you see an exclamation point “!” in “My Grades,” that simply
means that the assignment has been s u c c e s s f u l l y submitted by you. It does not
necessarily mean that the assignment has not been graded; it just may not be posted yet.
Problems With Blackboard or Turnitin? There is a complete Help Site on Blackboard. Click
the “help” button on the top of the main page. It will also list the helpline phone number
so you can call. Still have problems? Go to or call the Student Computer Center in the
Love Library at (619) 594-3189.
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Course Description
2.1.
This course will look at the history of the United States and Native nations since Reconstruction
after the Civil War. Issues involving power and class, and their interaction with race, ethnicity,
gender, and sexuality; work and production; population growth, urbanization, imperialism,
democracy, foreign relations, the environment and globalization will be analyzed in the contexts of
geography, technology, culture, law, and social history. By understanding more about the past,
the goal is to produce insight into how we got to where we are today, and to glimpse at where we
might go in the future -- what our choices and our limits are.
The course will put special emphasis on two themes. First —we will look at the effect on
Americans of various forms of power: particularly the rise of corporate power, but also
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constitutional,
electoral, social, economic, military, personal, and discursive (including the media.)
We will try to see how power is variously packaged, how hegemony is formed, how power shapes,
or even creates, “reality”. Second, and deeply related of course, we will look at Americans’
understandings of freedom — how freedoms and rights have been conceptualized, fought for, won
and lost in different time periods, as well as the historical tension between individual freedom and
the desire for community.
Finally, one important goal of this course is that you emerge from at the end of the semester a
better writer. To that end we will put significant emphasis on writing skills.
2.2.
Goals and Objectives
By the completion of this course, you should be able to:
Trace the historical roots and development of a number of our contemporary economic, social, political,
technological and ecological patterns, predicaments and possibilities.
 Understand some of the historical roles played by such factors as culture, environment, economics,
technology, class structures, race, gender, and sexuality.
 Discover and pursue some of your own questions, those which you find most important or interesting.
 (Hopefully) glimpse some potential solutions to problems, and see a key role for yourselves and your
society in solving them.
 Understand how cultures’ biases, past and present, have influenced interpretations of world history.
Understand history as a disciplined, evidence based interpretation of the past rather than a mere listing of
names, dates and events.
Interrogate both primary and secondary sources within their historical contexts.
 Improve your research, analytical and writing skills.
2.3.
Procedures
• All submissions (except email) must be double spaced.
• Anytime you email me about anything—including any paper or note—it must have
your name and class day/hour in the upper right-hand corner.
• You must staple any paper submission of more than one page! You will loose credit 2
points (or 5 percent of the assignment) each time you don’t.
• If a paper copy is required, to save a tree or two you should use paper that has been
already used on the other side for the term paper or final. If you do, you will receive an
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extra 1 percent on that particular grade. Conserve resources and preserve your future.
• Student Use of Electronic Devices in the Classroom: Laptop or tablet use is
permitted and encouraged. The use of all other electronic devices in the classroom is
prohibited. That means turn off all other electronic devices. This rule is enforced to
help remove distractions from other students and create a better learning environment
for everyone. If this rule is not followed the student may be asked to leave the classroom
and will receive an absence for the day.
2.4.
BBoard’sTurnitin
This is the web site where you will deposit your film write-ups, extra credit write-ups, term
paper, and final exam. Please go to the ITS Plagiarism website: http://its.sdsu.edu/
tech/plagiarism.html
There is a section on Turnitin for students—download the manual and tips for students
about submitting your docs to Turnitin within your Blackboard course. (A paper copy of
the Term Paper and Final Exam might also be required. Stay tuned.
No paper copies of Outside video questions and extra credit submissions are needed, only
electronic submissions via Turnitin.)
If you have any trouble with Turnitin, contact the Student Computing Center in Love Library
at scc@rohan.sdsu.edu or (619) 594-3819. You may also go to the Student Help Desk. They
are there to help you on any Turnitin problems. Let me know if that doesn’t work. Also,
apparently you are better off using Mozilla Firefox as your browser to upload files; and that
also works for sure if the file is in .doc format.
2.5.
SDSU Statement
Students agree that by taking this course all required papers may be subject to submission
for textual similarity review to Turnitin for the detection of plagiarism. All submitted
papers will be included as source documents in the Turnitin reference database solely for the
purpose of detecting plagiarism of such papers. You may submit your papers in such a way
that no identifying information about you is included. Another option is that you may
request, in writing, that your papers not be submitted to Turnitin. However, if you
choose this option you will be required to provide documentation to substantiate that the
papers are your original work and do not include any plagiarized material.
2.6.
SDSU Academic Honesty Policy
(The University has requested that we include the University’s Academic Honesty Policy in
the syllabus)
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Institutions of higher education are founded to impart knowledge, seek truth, and encourage
one’s development for the good of society. University students shall thus be intellectually
and morally obliged to pursue their course of studies with honesty and integrity. Therefore,
in preparing and submitting materials for academic courses and in taking examinations, a
student shall not yield to cheating or plagiarism, which not only violate academic standards
but also make the offender liable to penalties explicit in Title 5.
Cheating shall be defined as the act of obtaining or attempting to obtain credit for academic
work by the use of dishonest, deceptive, or fraudulent means. Examples of cheating include,
but are not limited to (a) copying, in part or in whole, from anothers test or other examination; (b) discussing answers or ideas relating to the answers on a test or other examination
without the permission of the instructor; (c) obtaining copies of a test, an examination,
or other course material without the permission of the instructor; (d) using notes, cheat
sheets, or other devices considered inappropriate under the prescribed testing condition; (e)
collaborating with another or others in work to be presented without the permission of the
instructor; (f ) falsifying records, laboratory work, or other course data; (g) submitting work
previously presented in another course, if contrary to the rules of the course; (h) altering or
interfering with the grading procedures; (i) plagiarizing, as defined; and (j) knowingly and
intentionally assisting another student in any of the above.
2.7 Plagiarism shall be defined as the act of incorporating ideas, words, or specific
substance of another, whether purchased, borrowed, or otherwise obtained, and submitting
same to the University as one’s own work to fulfill academic requirements without giving
credit to the appropriate source. Plagiarism shall include but not be limited to (a) submitting
work, either in part or in whole, completed by another; (b) omitting footnotes for ideas,
statements, facts, or conclusions that belong to another; (c) omitting quotation marks
when quoting directly from another, whether it be a paragraph, sentence, or part thereof;
(d) close and lengthy paraphrasing of the writings of another; (e) submitting another
persons artistic works, such as musical compositions, photographs, paintings, drawings, or
sculptures; and (f ) submitting as one’s own work papers purchased from research
companies.
2.8.
Attendance
Attendance will be taken periodically by i-clicker and be part of your participation grade.
B r i n g y o u r i - c l i c k e r t o e a c h c l a s s . Class participation is appreciated in
this course. If you are absent, or if you need another copy of something that was sent to
you, it is your obligation to contact your “class partner” for in- formation on what you
missed or are missing (e.g., handouts, announcements, assignments, lecture notes). (see syl.
sect.1.3)
Attention Be sure you have registered your i-clicker via blackboard properly by the 2 nd
week’s first class. See above Sect 1.4.12 for exact process! DO not follow the procedure on
the i-clicker box! (Sorry, doesn’t work for SDSU.)
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§ 3 Assignments &
Grading
3.1.
Outside Video Assignments
There are three (3) out-of-class video assignments:
You must see three videos from the list in the following section. All are in the Media Center
in the Love Library (basement of the Library Dome), some are available online or via
Netflix, etc. There are six films on the list you can pick from.
Note: If you do more videos from the list below than the required three, they turn
automatically into extra credit. Just put the extras in the B l a c k B o a r d Extra Credit
Turnitin folders.
3.1.1.
R e q u i r e d Outside Video
Instructions
• Create questions: For each film, come up with a list of 4 original multiple choice
questions—with the correct answer marked—and 2 true/false questions—with the
correct answers highlighted.
The questions should not be overly picky, but things that a careful viewer would
notice.
The video questions will be graded on a c c u r a c y, quality and range of coverage.
(Choose your various questions to show that you have seen the whole film.) Each film
is worth 3 points of your final grade.
An example of each type (relating to the movie Evolution, Why Sex?):
1. Which experiment indicates that women pick a mate for his immune system:
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)
The Male Ornamentation Experiment
The T shirt Experiment
The Shoe Size Experiment
The Red Queen Experiment
Both (a) & (d)
2. T/F It is hypothesized that Bonobos and Chimpanzees diverged, one becoming
more sexualized than the other, after a change in feeding patterns.
• Electronically submit together all questions for each film (with the correct
answers identified by highlighting. Put the film title in the filename AND the top of
the writeup.) One film per “Assignment” slot in Turnitin in Blackboard: Go to
‘Assignments” and pick an electronic folder labeled “Required Outside Videos.” It
helps me if you have your name & class time, and you must have film title on the actual
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electronic paper as well. Be sure you keep a backup copy.
• Due Dates: See Class Calendar.
• Do not submit a paper copy.
3.1.2.
List of Videos
( - to pick from for Required Outside Videos)
1) American Experience: Hawaii’s Last Queen [Media Center VTC-4645 60 min.]
2) People’s Century: Killing Fields: The First World War: 1914-1919 [Media Center VTC 361 Tape 2]
3) Frontline: Merchants of Cool. [Media Center]
4) Frontline: The Age of Aids [Media Center DVD-246 4 disks. 4 hours Watch any 1 hour.] Brilliant. You can
test the waters by just watching the first disk, then see if you also want to do others for extra credit. (Also
available free as streaming video on
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/aids/ but since it is long you may
prefer seeing it on a bigger screen on DVD.)
5) The Life of Bayard Rustin [Online at http://www.logotv.com/video/brotheroutsider-the-life-of-bayard-rustin/1600849/playlist.jhtml. Media Center
DVD-1967, (2003) 83 min. About the gay African American who taught Martin Luther
King Jr. and Gandhi nonviolence, and organized the 1963 Civil Rights March on
Washington.]
6) Iraq For Sale: The War Profiteers [Media Center DVD-2994]
3.2.
Quizzes
There will be three quizzes instead of a midterm. The dates are marked on the Class
Calendar, so be sure to have i-clicker available when the time comes. The format of the
quizzes will be short answer/multiple choice and true/false, and they will be based on the
readings since the last quiz, plus the lectures (Hint: use the class PowerPoints and your
personal class notes to review) as well as the in-class films and video, guest lectures,
debate, current event issues discussed and handouts.
3.3.
FinalExam
The Final Exam, like quizzes will be based on lectures, discussions, guest lectures, in-class
presentations and de- bates, in-class films, and readings, including articles sent to you.
The exam answers are expected to make explicit use of this material. Lectures will often
parallel or overlap the readings, but will not aim at a reiteration of the text. I t m a y b e
a t a k e h o m e e x a m . You will be given a study sheet for any in-class written final.
Take Home exams or any at-home writeups: You may not share your exam materials
or essay drafts with any classmate before handing the paper in unless specifically OKed by
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instructor. Nor may you read theirs before handing yours in.
3.4.
Term Paper
You are required to write a 3.5 – 4.5 page term paper (not counting endnotes, & bibliography)
which will be due in the tenth week. Paper copies May be required (stay tuned) and the
term paper must be put in Blackboard’s Turnitin. Specific guidelines for the paper will be
posted on Blackboard, and I will announce when it is posted. Be sure to carefully read the
guidelines. We can discuss potential approaches in class, and in some cases, papers may be
presented to the class for additional credit.
You will be given a list of books to choose from, and you must analyze it in terms of the
issues and readings on the topic we have in class or on the syllabus.
Important: College-level English grammar, punctuation, and writing skills are an inherent
part of what is expected in your paper. If you have writing problems, use this paper to work
on them. Use the tutoring services, classmates with good writing skills, etc. to proofread
and advise.
EOPS students: You have free tutoring services to help you edit your paper. It is a great
asset for your education and grade, and I encourage you to use it.)
3.5
Micro
Assignments
You will have a series of Micro Assignments which will be posted the week before on blackboard.
They will be very short and will include such things as: Picking a Primary Source from the week’s
material, current event article sent to you; current event articles you select; Scenario Questions
submitted by you for the class via clickers; Self Study Powerpoint questions. (Others? You may
suggest possibilities.) These will be the basis for pair, group, and class interactions.
To have an informed discussion, you will be asked to bring in a typed very short paragraph or
questions. The goal here is to provide a variety of activities for our classes to keep it active, fresh
and interesting with your input. You do not have to submit your micro assignments to Turnitin,
unless told to do so beforehand
You will only get credit if you are in class for discussion of the assignment. If someone else
submits your paper for you, and you are not there, you will get no credit AND have your grade
docked further. Don’t do it.
3.6 Extra Credit
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As stated above, various extra credit possibilities will be made available, including films
that are in the Media Center in Love Library.
Refer to Outside Video Assignments for details on how to do the write up, but for these,
please add a very short paragraph evaluating the value and interest of this video for you .
No paper copy is needed unless explicitly stated otherwise. All extra credit must be
uploaded to Turnitin by the last class of the fourteenth week. No exceptions! (Generally, one
extra credit video adds .5 points to your Final Class Grade.)
An in-class presentation based on the term paper may also be given for extra credit. See me
early if you are interested. No more than two will be allowed.
3.7.
Grading
Micro Assignments and Participation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10%
Three Outside video write-ups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12%
Three quizzes…………. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15%
Term paper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30%
Final exam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33%
Extra credit normally adds 0.5 points per film to your final grade.
Extra Credit is all graded at the END of the semester, after the end of classes. Outside video
three, as well, is graded at the END of the semester. Outside Video #1 will be graded as soon
as possible, so you can see if you are on the right track.
Checking Turnitin for Plagiarism, AND to see if they have been submitted to Turnitin, is
typically done at the END of the semester. If the “Originality Report” is beyond the required
limit (not counting book titles etc) grades will be docked then.
A note on grades: Quoted from the SDSU Academic Senate Policy:
A = Outstanding Achievement
B = Praiseworthy performance
C = Satisfactory Performance, the most common undergraduate grade
D = Minimally Passing
F = Failing
Also: The minimum Grade for CR in Cr/NCR is a C (or 73 numerically)
3.8.
Tips to Succeed in This Class
• Take Notes: This class uses lecture, film, and discussion. You are expected to actively
engage this material, including taking notes. You will be given PowerPoints, etc. that
will be used in class. Additional terms will be written on the board. These will
provide an outline and key terms, but the outlines are in no way sufficient notes for
the class lectures or the films.
• I M P O R T A N T : Simply because we are in a conversational or question and
answer mode, it does not mean that note taking should cease. Always have a pen
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in hand or a keyboard at the ready! Take thorough notes, compare them with classmates, and review and revise your notes after each class. (Best way to get an A.)
• Do the readings: The secret to doing the readings is to start i mmediately when you get
time after the class. If you at least promise yourself the habit of opening the book and
starting for at least 10 minutes (and then stopping if you want to) you will have cracked
the ice. You will find it much easier to get the reading done. Do this every day, if
necessary. Do not let it bunch up till the last minute. Move on, skim if necessary,
and take advantage of your class partners if you don’t understand or like it.
• What does it mean when it says skim? It means at least know something about the
reading. This can generally be done by reading the first several sentences next to the
headings. Another approach is to read the first and last sentence of each paragraph.
For those chapters that have chapter/lecture notes in the class packet, use the outlines
as guidelines to see what the teacher is emphasizing.
• Remember, a NOVEL is fiction. A NON fiction book is not a
novel! You will lose credit if you call a non-fiction book a novel
in any class assignment (-2 pts)
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Class Calendar
1. Class Calendar: Topics, Readings, and Due Dates
TUES/THURS Class
Frank Nobiletti
History 110, Section 6: U S History since the Civil War
San Diego State University, Fall 2013
Class Room: Music 120 Class Time: TuTh 2:00pm-3:15pm
REPEATED HEREFORYOURCONVENIENCE:
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Texts:
Eric Foner, Give Me Liberty! Brief 3e, vol 2
Ted Nace, Gangs of America (http://www.gangsofamerica.com/about.html)
O u t s i d e Video List
1. American Experience: Hawaii’s Last Queen [Media Center VTC-4645, 60 min.]
2. People’s Century: Killing Fields: The First World War: 1914-1919 [Media Center VTC
361, Tape 2]
3. Frontline: Merchants of Cool. [Media Center]
4. Frontline: The Age of Aids [Media Center DVD-246 4 disks. 4 hours Watch any 1 hour.]
Film Notes: Brilliant. You can test the waters by just watching the first disk, then see if you
also want to do others for extra credit. (Also available free as streaming video on
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/aids/ but since it is long you may prefer seeing it
on a bigger screen on DVD.)
5. The Life of Bayard Rustin [Media Center DVD-1967, (2003) 83 min. Also available online
at http://www.logotv.com/video/brother-outsider-the-life-of-bayardrustin/1600849/playlist.jhtml. Film Notes: About the gay African American who taught
Martin Luther King Jr. and Ghandi nonviolence, and organized the 1963 Civil Rights
March on Washington.]
6. Film: Iraq For Sale: The War Profiteers [Media Center DVD-2994]
Section 4. Course Outline with Readings, and Assignments:
The instructor reserves the right to modify the reading assignments and schedule as conditions warrant.
All Dates are when the readings etc. are due.
Week 1
Aug 27/9 Tu/Th
Introduction to the Course, Syllabus Review
In Class Film: 500 Nations: Roads Across the Plains, Episode 7 [VTC-328 - 49 min or
DVD 6277 Disc 4]
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2 Bring In Signed Class Contract
Sep 3 Tues
Lecture: 19th Century US Internal Imperialism (Native America):
PPT: Five Techno Economic Stages of Humanity
Read:Foner, Chapter 15 pages 483-493
Read: Nace, Ch 1 (pp. 11-18)
Read: Nace, Ch 4 (pp. 38- 45);
Read: Ch 5 (pp. 46-55),
Thu
In Class Film: 500 Nations: Attack on Culture, Episode 8 [DVD 6277 Disc 4; Ch 25-27+]
Week 3
Sep 10 Tues
Lecture/Discussion: Reconstruction 1863-1877
Read: Foner, Ch 15, “What is Freedom?: Reconstruction, 1865-1877”
Read: Ch 6: “The Genius- The Man Who Invented the Corporation” (Tom Scott)
pp.56-69,
Read: Ch 7: “Superpowers” pp.70-86
Thu
In Class Film: American Experience: Ida B. Wells: A Passion For Justice
Week 4
Sep 17 Tues
Micro Assignment #1Due (will be sent to you. Instructions will be posted in BB
Announcements)
Lecture/Discussion: The Incorporation of America: 1865-1900
Read:Foner, Ch 16, “America’s Gilded Age, 1870-1890”
Read: Nace: Ch 8: “The Judge- Stephen Field and the politics of personhood”
pp.87-101,
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Read: Ch 9: “The Court Reporter- Who really decided the Supreme Court’s Most
Important Corporate Case?” Pp.102- 109,
Read: Ch 10: “The Lavender Vested Turkey Gobbler- How ‘a majestic, supereminent’ lawyer deceived the Supreme Court” pp.110-117
Week 5
Sep 24 Tues
Micro Assignment #2 Due [on Primary Source. Instructions will be posted BBD]
Lecture: 19th Century US External Imperialism
Read:Foner, Ch 17, “Freedom’s Boundaries, At Home and Abroad, 1890-1900”
In Class Film: Crucible of Empire [ITS VTC-568] Film Note: START} 1:18 hrs [at end of
John Phillip Souza picture “Stars & Stripes Forever’) End} 1:28:33 hrs [Taft calls Filipinos
“our little brown brothers”] RUN TIME} 10 ½ min
Week 6 Quiz 1
Oct 1 Tues
First Outside Video Due in Turnitin-BBD [See Syl/Course Guide Part 1, Section 3.1]
Lecture: The Progressive Era
Read: Foner, Ch 18, “The Progressive Era, 1900-1916”
Thu
In Class Film: Ethnic Notions
Week 7
Oct 8 Tues
Lecture/Discussion: A Global Power: The United States in the Era of the Great War,
1901-1920 (World War I 1914-1919)
Read: Foner, Ch 19, “Safe for Democracy: The United States and World War I,
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1916-1029”
Read: Nace: Ch 11, “Survival of the Fittest” (pp. 118-136)
In Class Film Clips: The Great War, Episodes 1 & 2, 7 & 8 used in class for short
clips.
Week 8
Oct 15 Tues
Micro Assignment #3 Due
Lecture: The Twenties
Read:: Foner, Ch 20, “From Business Culture to Great Depression: The Twenties,
1920-1932”
In Class Film: Modern Times [for in class clip Media Center DVD-70 or ITS: VHS TV2582]
Lecture: The Great Depression & the New Deal: 1929-1940
Read: Foner, Ch 21, “The New Deal, 1932-1940”
In Class Film Clip: Riding the Rails (shorten)
Week 9
Oct 22 Tues
Second Outside Video Due [See Syl Part 1 Section 3.1]
Lecture: World War II: [for the US] 1941-45
Read: Foner, Ch 22, “Fighting for the Four Freedoms: World War II, 1941-1945”
In Class Film Clip: Treasures From American Film Archives: 50 Preserved Films,
Program 1: Cut# 28: Private Snafu: Spies [DVD-72 - 4 min]
Week 10
Quiz 2 Tues [Covers all material since last quiz]
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29 Tues
Micro Assignment # 4 (TBA) Due on Thursday
Lecture: The Cold War Begins: 1945-1953
Lecture: Bretton Woods: Prelude to Globalization
Read: Foner, Ch 22, “The United States and the Cold War, 1945-1953”
In Class Film: Berkeley in the 60s
Guest Lecture?
Week 11
Term Paper Due
Nov 5 Tues
Lecture/Discussion: The Civil Rights Movement: 1945-1966
America at Mid Century 1952-1963
Read: Foner, Ch 24, “An Affluent Society, 1953-1960”
In Class Film clips: Eyes on the Prize
Week 12
Nov 12 Tues
Third Outside Video Due [See Syl Part 1 Section 3.1]
Class: TBA
Week 13
Read: Foner, ch 25, “The Sixties, 1960-1968”
Nov 19 Tues
Lecture: Women’s Liberation, Sexual Liberation, Identity Politics, “The 70's”
In Class Film: Chicano! Trouble in the Fields (Episode 2) Struggle in the Fields
[Media Center: VTC4370 Tape 2 of 4 – 57 minutes]
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Lecture: The Rise of Conservatism
Nov 26 Tues
Read: Foner, Ch 26, “The Triumph of Conservatism, 1969-1988”
Read: Nace, Ch:12: “The Revolt of the Bosses: The New Mobilization of Corporate
Power (1972-2002)” pp.137-151, Ch: 15:” Crime Wave” pp. 178-186
In Class Film: With God On Our Side: George W Bush and the rise of the Religious
Right [Media Center DVD 1729 – 101 minutes. All good]
Nov 28 Thu
Week 15
Dec 3Tues
Happy Thanksgiving!!!
Quiz 3 [Covers all since last quiz including this week’s readings]
The “National Security“ State
Read Foner, Ch 28 “ Sept 11 . . . “
Thu
Read Foner, Ch 27, “Globalization and its Discontents, 1989-2000”
In Class Film: Food Inc. [DVD 5655 at least last 30 min, and maybe 1st 30. Skip
middle 3]
Week 16
Dec 10 Tues
Lecture/Discussion: The Information Age What Kind of Globalization?
Last Class Day
Read!!!: Nace, Ch 18: “Intelligent, Amoral, Evolving: The Hazards of Persistent
Dynamic Entities” pp. 219-229
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Tues 3-4pm
Final Examination drop off, if a take home 5:00 - 6:00 pm,
Don’t forget the e-copy in Turnitin, on BBD
Final Grades posted December 31, 11:00pm
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