FALL 2015 - SYLLABUS - HISTORY 1301
U. S. History Before 1877
Section # 75980
MW 2:00 - 3:30 PM
West Loop C - 252
Instructor: Sheri Dylewski
E-mail: sheridylewski@gmail.com or sheri.dylewski@hccs.edu
Tel. 713.529.9743
Office Hours: Monday or Wednesday 11:30 - 12:30 PM, or by appointment.
Course Description:
History 1301 is a survey course of American History from Discovery to Reconstruction. The format of the text focuses on the political, economic,
societal, and cultural forces that shaped America’s history. Additional readings present historiographical interpretations on numerous issues in this
period of American History.
History 1301 is a 16-week, 48 contact hour course which fulfills three hours of the state-mandated six-hour history requirement.
Completion of this class will also improve performance in reading, writing, critical thinking, communicating , and computer skills.
Prerequisites: must be placed into college-level reading and college-level writing.
Core Objectives:
Critical Thinking Skills - to include creative thinking, innovation, inquiry, and analysis, evaluation and synthesis of information.
Communication Skills - to include effective development, interpretation and expression of ideas through written, oral and visual communication.
Social Responsibility: to include intercultural competence, knowledge of civic responsibility, and the ability to engage effectively in regional,
national and global communities.
Personal Responsibility - to include the ability to connect choices, actions and consequences to ethical decision-making Guidelines.
Program Learning Outcomes (PLO)
1. Students will evaluate historical developments in an essay.
2. Students will read primary source documents.
3. Students will analyze historical evidence by writing an analytical essay.
4. Students will explain the importance of chronology and how earlier ideas and events shaped later events.
Student Learning Outcomes (SLO)
1. Discuss the Age of Exploration 2. Explain Colonization 3. Identify the Causes and Effects of the American Revolution
4. Explain the origins and impact of slavery 5. Analyze the formation of the Republic 6. Summarize the effects of Expansion and Innovation
7. Explain Nationalism and Sectionalism 8. Discuss the Civil War 9. Evaluate the effect of Reconstruction
Course Objectives:
There are four objectives: (1) Increase the knowledge of major historical events and eras of American History from
Discovery through the Civil War Era of the Nineteenth Century. (2) Understand the American experience in a global
context. (3) Exposure to the historiography of a number of significant issues in American History.
(4) Improve research and writing skills.
Required Reading:
Monographs:
1776, McCullough (12 copies On Reserve in the Library)
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Jacobs
******* Textbooks: (CHOOSE 1)
(a) The American Promise: A History of the United States, Roark, Johnson, Cohen, Stage, Hartmann
(b) American Passages: A History of the United States, Volume I: To 1877, Ayers,Gould,Oshinsky,Soderlund
(c) The American Story: Volume I, Divine, Breen, Fredrickson, Williams, Gross, Brands
(d) American Destiny: Volume I, Carnes
(e) American History: A Survey. Volume I, Alan Brinkley (10th or 11th edition)
Course Requirements:
I.
Examinations:
55% of final grade
Examination # 1:
Examination # 2:
Final Examination:
15% of final grade
20% of final grade
20% of final grade
There will be THREE EXAMINATIONS. Each will consist of identifications and essay questions covering the assigned readings, lecture
material, and the text.
Consult the following Course Calendar for the dates of the examinations.
There will be NO MAKE UP exams except under extraordinary circumstances and solely at the discretion of the Instructor.
II.
Research Paper: 20% of final grade
The major writing requirement for History 1301 is a research paper. Students choose from a limited topic list and research the topic
using internet sources available at the West Loop Campus Library.
The research paper will be 5-7 pages in length.
The paper is expected to be typed, well presented, grammatically correct, and documented.
For the due date, consult the Course Calendar. Late research papers will be penalized by the loss of ten (10) points for each day late
or may not be accepted. This decision will be at the discretion of the Instructor.
III.
Essays and Quizzes: 25% of final grade
Students will be required to answer essay questions on the monographs 1776 and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.
There will be ten (10) quizzes based on articles found through internet sources or ON RESERVE in the library. Usually, a quiz
consists of 5 multiple choice, short answer, or True and False questions.
Grading:
Examination # 1
Examination # 2
Final Examination
Research Paper
Essays and Quizzes
Grading Scale:
15%
20%
20%
20%
25%
A:
B:
C:
D:
F:
100 - 90
89 - 80
79 - 70
69 - 60
59 - 0
Methodology:
Lecture/Discussion
Attendance Policy:
Class attendance: Students are expected to attend class regularly and be on time. Students are responsible for material
covered during their absence. Students entering class after 2:10 PM will be counted as absent.
The instructor checks class attendance daily.
**The Instructor reserves the right to drop students from this course for excessive absences. Excused or Unexcused absences are still
absences.
Absences in excess of 6 classes may result in a student being Administratively Withdrawn.
Withdrawal Policy:
All students who wish to withdraw from this course must fill out a Course Withdrawal form, available at the Registrar’s Office.
The final day to withdraw from this course for the FALL 2015 Semester is October 30, 2015, before 4:30 PM.
**Students who do not officially withdraw from this course will receive a final grade for the course, usually an “F”.
**Ceasing to attend class DOES NOT CONSTITUTE AN OFFICIAL WITHDRAWAL.
** International students, veterans, and financial aid recipients, who must complete 12 hours per semester to maintain their status, will
LOSE THIS STATUS IF THEY RECEIVE A “W”.
** This Instructor will not change a grade to maintain a student’s status.
**Students who repeat a course three or more times face significant tuition/fee increases at HCC and other Texas public colleges and
universities. Please ask this instructor/counselor about opportunities for tutoring/other assistance prior to considering course
withdrawal, or if you are not receiving passing grades.
Disability Policy:
Any student with a documented disability(e.g. physical, learning, psychiatric, vision, hearing, etc.) who needs to arrange reasonable
accommodations must contact the Disability Support Service Counselor, Dr. Becky Hauri (713-718-7909) at the beginning of the
semester. Faculty members are authorized to provide only the accommodations requested by the Office of Disability Support
Services(DSS). Students who are requesting special testing accommodations must first contact the office.
Academic Honesty Policy:
Plagiarism, cheating and other forms of academic dishonesty are prohibited by HCC policy and by the rules of this class.
*Plagiarism is the use of the ideas or words of another person(either whole or in part) without crediting the source and
constitutes the theft of another person's intellectual property. It is the most common form of academic dishonesty. If you are unclear
as to what constitutes plagiarism, you should seek clarification before beginning an assignment.
*Cheating involves fraud and deception for the purpose of violating legitimate testing rules. Cheating includes, but is not
limited to : copying from another student's test paper, using during an exam materials or resources not authorized by the instructor,
collaborating with another student during a test, knowingly using, buying, selling whole or part of an unadministered test.
Academic dishonesty constitutes a severe violation of HCC policy and rules and is subject to stringent penalties. Violations of these
policies can result, at a minimum, in the automatic failure of the assignment or the class. Severe violations could result in
suspension or expulsion from HCC.
COURSE CALENDAR: U S HISTORY
FALL 2015: Section: # 75980
1301
Questions: Please contact Instructor at sheridylewski@gmail.com or sheri.dylewski@hccs.edu
DATES and TOPICS:
Mon. Aug 24
Wed. Aug 26
Lecture: DISCOVERY
Lecture: EUROPEAN COLONIZATION OF THE AMERICAS
Spain, France, The Netherlands, Sweden, Britain
WEEK 1
Mon. Aug 31
Wed. Sept 2
Discussion: Article on Reserve: “Native Reactions to the Invasion of America”,
Lecture: BRITISH COLONIZATION
Introduction to 1776
WEEK 2
Mon. Sept 7
Wed. Sept 9
NO CLASS: LABOR DAY HOLIDAY
Map Assignment, Textbook Due
Lecture: COLONIAL LIFE IN THE BRITISH COLONIES
WEEK 3
Mon. Sept 14
Discussion: (Learning Web): “Anne Hutchinson versus Massachusetts”
"The Jamestown Fiasco"
Lecture: CRISIS AND CHANGE IN THE BRITISH COLONIES
Discussion: (Learning Web)
"Colonial America Without the Indians.."
Discussion: 1776 by David McCullough: Chapters 1-3
WEEK 4
Mon. Sept 21
Wed. Sept 23
Lecture: CRISIS AND CHANGE IN THE BRITISH COLONIES continued
Lecture: THE AMERICAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE
****
1776
Chapters 1-3: Essays due.
WEEK 5
Mon. Sept 28
WEEK 6
Wed. Sept 30
Lecture: THE AMERICAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE continued
Discussion: 1776 by David McCullough: Chapters 4-7.
EXAMINATION # 1: Discovery to Independence
Mon. Oct 5
****
1776
Chapters 4-7: Essays due.
Library Class: The Internet and your Research Paper
(PAPER DUE: Monday, November 9, 2015)
Lecture: THE CRITICAL YEARS: Articles of Confederation
WEEK 7
Lecture: THE CONSTITUTION OF 1789
Discussion: (Learning Web): Alexander Hamilton's Place in the Founding
of the Nation"
Lecture: THE FEDERALIST REPUBLIC
Presidencies of George Washington, John Adams
WEEK 8
Wed. Sept 16
Wed. Oct 7
Mon. Oct 12
Wed. Oct 14
Mon. Oct 19
Wed. Oct 21
Lecture: THE REPUBLICAN DYNASTY: THOMAS JEFFERSON
WEEK 9
Discussion: Article on Reserve:
“The Case of the Missing Commission”.
(Learning Web):
"The Enforcement of the Aliens Friends Act".
Lecture: THE REPUBLICAN DYNASTY
Presidencies of James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams
Discussion: Articles on Reserve: “The Republican President”,
(Learning Web): Articles on Lewis and Clark, Monroe Doctrine, War of 1812.
COURSE CALENDAR: U S HISTORY 1301 Section # 75980
( October 26 - December 9, 2015)
Questions: Please contact Instructor at sheridylewski@gmail.com or sheri.dylewski@hccs.edu
Mon. Oct 26
Wed. Oct 28
Lecture: JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY
WEEK 10
Presidencies of Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren
Discussion: Articles on Reserve: “ Jacksonian Democracy”.
(Learning Web):
"Andrew Jackson's Indian Policy....",
Articles on the Bank of the United States, Tariff and Nullification.
Mon. Nov 2
Wed. Nov 4
EXAMINATION # 2: Articles of Confederation to The Age of Jackson
WEEK 11
Lecture: NATIONALISM, INDUSTRIALIZATION, SLAVERY
Discussion: Articles on Reserve: “ The Charles River Bridge Case”, “Paths to Wage Labor”.
(Learning Web): Article on Hopeton Plantation
Mon. Nov 9
WEEK 12***********
Wed. Nov 11
*****RESEARCH PAPER DUE *****
Discussion: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Essay on monograph due Wednesday, December 2, 2015
Lecture: MANIFEST DESTINY: THE MEXICAN WAR
Mon. Nov 16
Wed. Nov 18
Discussion: (Learning Web):
"Assimilation and Nativism" "The Mexican War"
Lecture: POLITICS OF SECTIONALISM
WEEK 13
Mon. Nov 23
Lecture: POLITICS OF SECTIONALISM
Discussion: Articles on Reserve: “The Dred Scott Case”.
NO CLASS: THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY
WEEK 14
Lecture: THE ELECTION OF 1860, THE CIVIL WAR
Discussion: Articles on Reserve: “Lincoln and the Abolitionists”,
“The Confederate Blockade of Washington, D.C”.
(Learning Web): "Political Parties of New Orleans"
Lecture: Lecture: RECONSTRUCTION (1865-1877)
****Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Essays due.
WEEK 15
Wed. Nov 25
Mon. Nov 30
Wed. Dec 2
FINAL EXAMINATION: DATE and TIME
Regular Class Schedule:
Section # 75980
MW 2:00 - 3:30 PM_________________________Wednesday, December 9, 2015
2:00 PM
The Instructor reserves the right to change or modify this syllabus and calendar, and will inform the students in a timely manner.