SANTA BARBARA HIGH SCHOOL/SANTA BARBARA CITY COLLEGE
DUAL ENROLLMENT
PARTIAL COURSE SYLLABUS – History 102, Spring 2014
United States History from Reconstruction (1865) to the Present
Instructor: Dr. Warren Wood
Email: wwood@sbsdk12.org
Time and Room: M - F, 8:00AM-8:55AM and 9:03AM-10:02AM
Office Hours: TF, 12:00PM-1:00PM and by virtual appointment. Location TBD.
THE TERMS OF THIS SYLLABUS AND SCHEDULE OF LECTURES AND READINGS
MAY CHANGE IN RESPONSE TO INSTRUCTIONAL NECESSITY.
COURSE DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES
The intended purpose of your education is to MAKE YOUR BRAIN STRONGER. This course
is designed to assist in that project by teaching you to think like historians. Historians review
authoritative historical scholarship. They then apply various forms of analysis derived from their
review of authoritative scholarship to collections of historic data, texts, images, and artifacts.
They review the data employing various “lenses” of analysis – theories of economics, politics,
gender, even psychology – to synthesize patterns of meaning from the data. Evaluation of these
patterns results in the creation and recreation of our understanding of historical change and
continuity.
In short, historians draw order and understanding – history - out of a chaotic mass of evidence.
The ability to draw order and understanding from evidence is a skill with vital application across
a wide range of professional and personal endeavors. Those who do not acquire this skill will
find themselves working for those who do.
The course will help you acquire this skill by exploring with you how historians have come to
understand the history of the United States from the post-Civil War era of Reconstruction to the
present.
COMMUNICATING WITH ME:
The best way to communicate with me is via email at wwood@sbsdk12.org. PLEASE NOTE:
Your correspondence must include what class you are taking and the times of your class
meetings. Of course I am always delighted to see students during my office hours.
ACADEMIC INTEGRITY:
Don’t cheat and don’t plagiarize and don’t help anybody cheat or plagiarize.
If the intended purpose of a college education is to make your brain stronger, then academic
dishonesty is like hoping to get in shape by going to the gym and asking somebody else to get on
the treadmill for you. It strikes at the heart of the academic process. Besides, if you are caught
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you will suffer serious consequences and might even get expelled from this institution. Don’t do
it.
Cheating involves any kind of academic dishonesty or misconduct regarding the fulfillment of an
assignment. Some examples include, but are not limited to, copying from another student’s paper
during exam or the use of notes or information text-messaged to a cell phone during an exam with
the aim of thwarting the examination process. Plagiarism in its simplest form is the passing off of
materials as your own work that were, in fact, not created by you. Plagiarism includes, but is not
limited to, copying material from a website and pasting it into your paper without attribution.
Even with attribution, extensive copying and pasting may result in plagiarism.
CELL PHONES
Please turn your cell phones off and put them in your purse, book bag, or pocket when you come
to class. No exceptions.
IMPORTANT DATES
February 14, Lincoln’s Birthday observed. No class.
February 17, President’s Day. No Class
March 14, first paper due.
March 24-28, Spring Break. No Class
May 23, second paper due.
MaY 26, Memorial Day Holiday. No Class.
CLASS REQUIREMENTS and GRADES:
 Attendance (10%)
 Evaluations by your teaching partner (10%)
 Your weekly peer review and response (35%)
 1st Paper (10%)
 2nd Paper (15%)
 Final (20%)
REQUIRED READINGS
All readings will be available on the course EDU 2.0 website either as .pdf documents or as links.
You will be assigned to either Group A or Group B. If you are assigned to Group A, you will be
responsible for reading, mastering, and teaching the material assigned to Group A; if you are
assigned the material in Group B, you will be responsible for reading, mastering, and teaching the
material assigned to Group B. IF YOU WISH TO SUCCEED IN THIS CLASS IT IS
ESSENTIAL YOU DO ALL YOUR ASSIGNED READING.
CLASS ATTENDANCE, PEER REVIEWS, AND PARTICIPATION
Fifty five percent (55%) of your final grade will be based on your class attendance and
participation and the completing of your online peer reviews and reflections. You are expected to
come to every class prepared to participate in all class activities including discussion. Much of
this class will involve collaborative learning. If you are not prepared you not only jeopardize
your grade, but you hurt the grades and progress of the students who are your partners.
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HOW THE COURSE WILL WORK
There will be a lecture (or two) during each unit designed to support your understanding of the
course readings. The other two key components of this class are collaborative learning and
feedback & reflection. During nearly every other class meeting you will be teaching material you
have read and mastered to another student. You will be responsible for knowing the material you
are taught by your peers, so BE SURE TO TAKE NOTES while you are being taught.
FILLING IN THE EVALUATION & RESPONSE FORM (E&R). At the end of each unit, you
will evaluate your partners and your own performance, and reflect on the lessons of the unit. This
evaluation and reflection will be done via a Google form. The link to these forms will appear on
the course EDU 2.0 website in the unit folder shortly before the end of the unit-related classes and
disappear after the due date for the evaluation and reflection.
SUBMITTING YOUR E&R AS AN EMAIL. If, through some digital burp, you cannot access
EDU 2.0 or the link does not appear, or any other digital disaster that might strike as you attempt
to fill in the E&R, you have the alternative of sending me your E&R in an email in which you
will evaluate your partners and yourself, and answer the questions “What is this unit about?”
“What surprised you about this unit?” and “What confused you about this unit?”
YOU ARE REQUIRED TO RECORD EVIDENCE THAT YOU FILLED IN AND
SUBMITTED E&R FORM. . You may either make screenshots of the pieces of your E&R or
save the filled in form as a .pdf. If some digital eructation prevents your E&R from making it
into my database when you submitted it, you will be required to present this evidence as proof
you did the work if you want to get credit.
PAPERS
You will write two short paper (650-750 words) for this class in response to prompts which will
be available on the course Blackboard website.
FINAL EXAM
One week before the Final Exam you will receive a set of 6 study essay prompts formatted across
two pages. The prompts will be organized in two groups. The back of the sheets of paper on
which these prompts are printed may be filled with as many notes as you can cram onto them, and
these crib sheets may be used when you take the exam. On the day of the exam, one of the study
prompts will be chosen at random from the study prompts and you will write a response to that
prompt for the remainder of the exam time.
TIMES OF TROUBLE
Education is by turns thrilling and terrifying, elevating and depressing, unalloyed delight and a
gut-wrenching challenge. If at any time during the term you are having trouble or are feeling
overwhelmed please do not hesitate to contact me so that I can help you get help from one of the
school’s many resources for student support.
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Finally, it is my pleasure to inform you that I am committed to making my classes fully accessible
to all students. Students with special needs should inform me and be sure to contact the
University Disabilities Resource Center. Their website is at http://dsa.csupomona.edu/drc/.
THE TERMS OF THIS SYLLABUS AND SCHEDULE OF LECTURES AND READINGS
MAY CHANGE IN RESPONSE TO INSTRUCTIONAL NECESSITY.
SCHEDULE OF READINGS
WEEK BEGINNING JANUARY 20 – CLASS INTRODUCTION & TRAINING
By January 23 read
Group B – Selections from The Private Mary Chesnut
Group A – Selected articles from the New York Times
WEEK BEGINNING JANUARY 27 - UNIT 1 – RECONSTRUCTION & THE RISE OF
JIM CROW
January 27 – Registration with Mr. Vega
By January 28 read
ALL READ Lincoln’s 2nd Inaugural Address
Group A – Butchart
Group B – Steedman
By January 30 read
Group A – Selections from Dixon, The Clansman
Group B – Wells-Barnett, Southern Horrors
By midnight February 2 submit your evaluation & reflection
WEEK BEGINNING FEBRUARY 3 - UNIT 2 – INDUSTRIALIZATION IN THE
GILDED AGE
By February 4 read
Group A – Cohen
Group B - Chandler
By February 6 read
Group A – Buchanan
Group B – Carnegie
By midnight February 9 submit your evaluation & reflection
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WEEK BEGINNING FEBRUARY 10 - UNIT 3 – IMMIGRATION AND
URBANIZATION IN THE GILDED AGE
By February 10 read
Group A – Broadman & Weber
Group B - Black
By February 12 read
Group A – Chapters III, V, X How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis
Group B – Chapter IX The Promised Land by Mary Antin
By midnight February 16 submit your evaluation & reflection
WEEK BEGINNING FEBRUARY 17 - UNIT 4 – NATIONAL EXPANSION IN THE
GILDED AGE.
By February 18 read
Group A – West
Group B – Coleman
By February 20 read
Group A – Selections from Frederick Jackson Turner’s “Frontier Thesis”
Group B – Chapter III, Buffalo Bill and His Adventures in the West by
Ned Buntline (1886)
By midnight February 23 submit your evaluation & reflection
WEEK BEGINNING FEBRUARY 24 - UNIT 5 – POPULISM & PROGRESSIVISM
By February 25 read
Group A – Montgomery
Group B - Clanton (and skim Wikipedia on Progressivism & Populism)
By February 27 read
Group A – 2 x articles on Frederick Winslow Taylor
Group B – Theodore Roosevelt, “The Strenuous Life”
By midnight February 21 submit your evaluation & reflection
WEEK BEGINNING MARCH 3 - UNIT 6 – WORLD WAR I
By March 4 read
Group A – Clements
Group B - Smith
By March 6 read
Group A – Memoir of an African American Soldier
Group B – Fitzgerald on the use of gas; Prior & Marble on combat nursing
By midnight March 9 submit your evaluation & reflection
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MARCH 14 – FIRST PAPER DUE ON TURNITIN
WEEK BEGINNING MARCH 10 - UNIT 7 – THE JAZZ AGE & THE RETURN TO
NORMALCY
By March 11 read
Group A – Osofsy
Group B – Lee
By March 13 read
Group A – Sex & the Automobile in the Jazz Age
Group B – “Soldier’s Home” by Ernest Hemingway; “Return to
Normalcy”, Warren G. Harding
By midnight March 16 submit your evaluation & reflection
WEEK BEGINNING MARCH 17 - UNIT 8 – ECONOMIC CATASTROPHE AND
THE CRASH OF 1929
By March 18 read
Group A – Harold
Group B - Orleck
By March 20 read – selections from Down & Out in the Great Depression
ALL READ – “Reactions to Hoover & the Economic Breakdown” Chap. 1
Group A – Chapters 2 & 3
Group B – Chapters 7 & 8
By midnight March 23 submit your evaluation & reflection
MARCH 24-MARCH 28 – SPRING BREAK
REMAINDER OF COURSE READINGS TBD.