Instructor: Alisha Loftin
Campus: West Loop Room C252
Phone: 918-809-8661
Email: alisha.loftin@hccs.edu
Section: 34415
Class Time: W 7:00pm-10:00pm
History 1302
American History, 1877-Present
Spring, 2013
Office Hours: By Appointment
Turnitin Course Name: HIST 1302 Sec 34415 W
Course ID#: 5421346
Course Password: hithere
Texts:
Ayers, Edward L., et al. American Passages: A History of the United States, 4th edition. Boston: Wadsworth, 2010.
Bell, Thomas. Out of the Furnace. Pittsburg: Little, Brown, Inc 1941.
O’Brien, Tim. The Things They Carried. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1990.
Course Theme:
Course Description and Goals: History 1302 is a survey of American History from 1877 to the present. The study includes social,
economic, and political aspects of American life and follows the development of the United States as a world power. The course is
based on lectures, readings, films and class participation. This course is designed to improve the student’s skills in the following
areas: critical thinking and reading about history, clear and concise writing and articulation about history, comprehension of primary
and secondary sources, knowledge of important events, movements, people and ideas in American history.
HIST 1301 is a 16-Week, 48-contact hour lecture course which fulfills three hours of the state-mandated six-hour history
requirement.
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 identify proper academic, history databases.
Student Learning Outcomes (SLO)
1.
Explain the features of the Gilded Age and the issues on society, culture, and politics
2.
Summarize Industrialism and Urbanization
3.
Analyze the New South and Jim Crow
4.
Explain Populism and Progressivism
5.
Identify the causes and effects of WWI and the US
6.
Discuss America between the wars
7.
Identify the causes of WW2 and the Cold War
8.
Discuss Post-war America at home
9.
Discuss Post-modern America
Course Grades:
The final course grade is based on completion of the following:
Course Exam I– 100 points
Final Exam – 100 points
Book Test – 100 points each
Participation Points – 5 points per day
Pop-Quizzes – 20 points
In-Class Essays/Homework Assignments – 20-50 points each
Exams: There will be two exams during the semester, Exam I will cover chapters 16 - 21, and the Final Exam will cover chapters 22 27. The Final Exam will not be comprehensive. Exams will be worth 100 points each. Exams will be multiple choice. Students must
provide a green scantron for each exam. Information covered in the exams may come from any lecture, video, reading, discussion, or
activity assigned or completed in class. If students do not complete Exam 1 on the day it is scheduled, it may be made up during the
period set aside for the Final Exam.
Book Tests: Book tests will be administered over the two assigned monographs. Book tests will be essay in nature, and students must
provide a blue book in which to complete each exam.
In-Class Assignments Variable: During class time, students will be sent to complete research on assigned topics and share the
information with the class. Your electronic devices may be used for this portion of the class.
Pop Quizzes: At the instructor’s discretion, pop-quizzes over materials pertinent to the previous class’s lecture, reading, or
assignment will be administered at the beginning of class. Students may not make up pop quizzes for any reason. Therefore, it is in
the student’s best interest to come to class on time and prepared, having read the assigned chapter in the textbook or the appropriate
reading.
Class Participation: Points will be assigned at the end of some class periods. They will be awarded based upon each student’s
valuable contribution to the class, via cogent questions, or constructive comments during class discussions or upon a brief in-class
writing assignment. Five points are possible for each day class participation is recorded. Students are expected to come to class
prepared.
Grades on written work (Exam Essays, Book Review, Homework Assignments and In-class essays) will be based upon the
following standards: Clear and concise presentation of thesis, evidence and analysis (content); organization; appropriate voice, tone
and diction, correct grammar, writing structure and spelling, and Turabian-style format. Written work, excluding Book Tests will be
turned in on Turnitin.com
Assignment and Exam Evaluation Techniques:
Grades for the class as well as on exams will be assigned on a 10-point curve of total points possible, as follows.
90% - over =A
80%-89%=B
70%-79%=C
60%-69%=D
Under 59%-F
Attendance Policy:
Regular class attendance is not only important from the standpoint of learning, but also is required in order to be successful in this
course. Students are held responsible for all materials covered during their absence and any changes made in the agenda.
The student is responsible for withdrawal from the class; the instructor will not complete withdrawals. Class Participation and in-class
essay points cannot be made up for any reason.
To withdraw from the class, the student should initiate an official withdrawal through the counseling office; non-attendance
DOES NOT constitute official withdrawal. Failure to withdraw may result in the student receiving a regular grade of “F” at the end of
the semester.
To request a change to Audit (A) or Incomplete (I), the student must be maintaining a passing grade. The student must
initiate the change with the instructor and sign the audit or incomplete agreement. If the Incomplete is due to a circumstance that
prevents the student from being able to sign the form him/herself, the instructor may make other arrangements. See the agenda for the
last day to change to A or I or withdraw.
Electronic Devices Policy
Use of electronic devices in the classroom is not permitted without the instructor’s permission. Please take notes with pen and paper.
If you must leave your mobile phone turned on, please utilize the vibrate setting. Texting, social media and web surfing during class
are prohibited.
Plagiarism, Academic Dishonesty, or Misconduct:
Plagiarism is claiming, indicating, or implying that the ideas, sentences, or words of another writer are your own; it includes having
another writer do work claimed to be your own, copying the work of another and presenting it as your own, or following the work of
another as a guide to ideas and expression that are then presented as your own. The student should review the relevant sections of the
Student Code of Conduct Policy Handbook. A student guilty of plagiarism may receive a zero for the assignment and an “F” in the
course.
Academic dishonesty or misconduct is not condoned nor tolerated. Academic dishonesty is behavior in which a deliberately fraudulent
misrepresentation is employed in an attempt to gain undeserved intellectual credit, either for oneself or for another. Academic
misconduct is behavior that results in intellectual advantage obtained by violating specific standard, but without deliberate intent or
use of fraudulent means. The student should review the relevant sections of the Student Code of Conduct Policy Handbook.
EGLS3 -- Evaluation for Greater Learning Student Survey System
At Houston Community College, professors believe that thoughtful student feedback is necessary to improve teaching and learning.
During a designated time, you will be asked to answer a short online survey of research-based questions related to instruction. The
anonymous results of the survey will be made available to your professors and division chairs for continual improvement of
instruction. Look for the survey as part of the Houston Community College Student System online near the end of the term.
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Apr 29-May 3
May 5-10
Syllabus/The Gilded Age
The West
(no class MLK Day Monday)
The Spanish American War,
American Expansion
Consumerism and Progressivism
Book Test, Out of This Furnace;
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
(movie)
World War 1 (ppt)
(no class President’s Day Monday)
Exam I – The Gilded Age through
WWI, Drama of the 1920s
The Crash of '29
The Depression
Spring Break – No Class
Exam 1;
World War II
Exam 1-The Gilded Age through
World War II, The GI's Come
Home
Civil Rights of the '50s & '60s Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll
Viet Nam
Book Test, The Things They
Carried; Nixon and Watergate
Make Up Day
Final Exams; Exam 2
*Jan 28 Date of Record
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Tentative Schedule of Activities, Agenda and Course Outline:
The instructor may change the assignment schedule AT ANY TIME by verbal or written notification in class or on Eagle Online.
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Course Contract
Please review the syllabus. Then sign and return this contract to your instructor by the 3rd class meeting.
I ____________________________________ have read and understand the syllabus for Section 78278 of History 1302. I agree that
this is a binding contract and that I will abide by the policies, instructions and guidelines as communicated by it and by my instructor
for the duration of my time in the class.
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Signed
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