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HCOM 251: Introduction to US History

Section 1 - 3 Units

Section Information

Days, Times, and Locations

Friday
9:00 am - 11:50 am
6th Ave. Classrooms & Service Learning Institute - Rm. 102 - map

Class Number (Formerly CRN)

40481

Instructor(s)

Cecilia O'Leary

Enrollment

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University Learning Requirements

United States Histories

Faculty Information

Cecilia O'Leary

Email: ceoleary@csumb.edu

Phone: 582-3861

Office: Institutional Assessment & Research, Room 102

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Department Information

Name: Humanities and Communication ~ Division of

Email: humanities_communication@csumb.edu

Phone: 582-3889

Fax: 582- 3780

Building: Humanities & Communication

Website: http://hcom.csumb.edu

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Course Description:

Meets the Subject Matter Requirement for the Multiple Subject Teaching Credential for U.S. history. Covers a time period from the Colonial Era, the War of Independence and the Early Republic, Manifest Destiny and the expansion westward, the Civil War and Reconstruction, Immigration at the turn-of-the-century and the response of Nativists, Industrialization and Urbanization, through the Progressive Era. Takes a multicultural perspective and looks at the histories of diverse peoples in the struggle to realize democracy and freedom. Develops historical thinking skills as students deepen their understanding of the cultural, economic, political and social dynamics that characterized each era. (Offered every year.)

Corequisites, Prerequisites & Restrictions:

Footnotes:

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Start & End Dates:

Start: August 24, 2009
End: December 20, 2009

Consent Requirements:

Catalog History

Course Materials

book

Elizabeth "Betita" Martínez, 500 years of Chicana women's history = 500 años de historia de las chicanas (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2008)
ISBN: 9780813542249
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Required Reading

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Richard Wright ; with a foreword Edward P. Jones, Black boy (American hunger) : a record of childhood and youth (New York: HarperPerennial Modern Classics, 2008)
ISBN: 0061443085
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Required Reading

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Yoshiko Uchida, Desert exile : the uprooting of a Japanese American family (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1984)
ISBN: 9780295961903
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Required Reading

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Thomas Bell ; with an afterword David P. Demarest, Jr, Out of this furnace (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1991)
ISBN: 0822936909
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Required Reading