LA HARBOR COLLEGE
Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs) Assessment Report
Course Assessment
Division: Social and Behavioral Sciences
Discipline/Program:
History
Course Number and Name: HISTORY 005 History of the Americas I
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1. Identify the major language groups and
tribal organizations of native North
American cultures; compare and contrast
the essential elements of those cultures.
2. Identify the periods (pre-classical,
classical, post-classical) of development of
cultures in the Andes and central Mexico;
compare and contrast those people with
Indians in North America.
3. Analyze the reasons for Spanish interest
in the Americas.
4. Analyze the reasons for the success of
the Spanish conquerors.
5. Compare and contrast the interests and
activities of the conquerors with those of
the Spanish crown.
6. Analyze the reasons for English interest
in the Americas.
7. Compare and contrast colonial
administration of the English empire with
that of the Spanish empire.
8. Analyze the impact of the
Enlightenment on the culture of British
North America.
9. Compare and contrast political, social,
and economic developments in Latin
America with those in British America.
10. Compare and contrast the role of
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religion in Latin America with that in
British America; compare and contrast the
impact of the Enlightenment on Latin and
British America.
11. Compare and contrast the essential
features of the Spanish, British, French,
and Portuguese empires in the Americas.
12. Compare and contrast the involvement
of British North America in the Seven
Years? War with that of Latin America.
13. Identify the reasons why British North
Americans eventually sought their
independence from England.
14. Analyze the motives of the framers of
the U.S. Constitution; compare and
contrast the Articles of Confederation with
the Constitution; compare and contrast the
positions of the Federalists and antiFederalists during the debate over
ratification of the Constitution.
15. Compare and contrast the Federalist
and Republic parties on matters of foreign
policy, territorial expansion, domestic
economic and monetary policy,
interpretation of the Constitution, and the
nature of the federal union.
16. Compare and contrast the involvement
of the United States in the Napoleonic
Wars with that of Latin America.
17. Identify the reasons Latin Americans
eventually sought their independence
from Spain and why Brazil sought
independence from Portugal.
18. Analyze U.S. policy toward Latin
American republics.