HIST 327 - Love, Sex, Family: Globalization and Private Life Since 1914

Units: 4 ; Breadth Area: GE-UD-C; Diversity
Effects of migration, decolonization, and diaspora on personal relationships of Americans from diverse cultural groups. Geopolitical and social structures of oppression and individual stories of liberation in matters of the heart. Writers as activists. Reading fiction historically.

Strongly Recommended Preparation: Upper division status (greater than 60 earned semester units) and completion of lower division Area C requirements.
Prerequisites: Completion of GE Areas A1, A2, A3 and B4 with grade C- (CR) or better.
Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground, or Hybrid, or Online Asynchronous or Online Synchronous.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice).
Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-UD-C - Upper Division Arts or Humanities; Overlay - Diversity
Course Typically Offered: Variable Intermittently

Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:
1. Know basic analytic concepts for interpreting historical evidence relating to globalization and private life for American cultural groups.

2. Achieve digital literacy in accessing and presenting information about personal experiences of globalization for Americans of diverse cultural perspectives.

3. Demonstrate significant knowledge of major events and trends in the global history of private life as it pertains to Americans.

4. Write and speak clearly and persuasively about events and trends in the global history of private life, and work collaboratively with others in solving problems relating to historical interpretation of fiction and personal narratives.

5. Provide original interpretation of assigned sources, and accurately reference all sources in coursework.

6. Comprehend how differences and similarities among diverse peoples and cultures over time have shaped the private lives of numerous American cultural groups.

7. Comprehend how differences and similarities among diverse peoples and cultures over time shaped the history of communism, and how communists understood and managed cultural diversity

UD-C. Upper-division Arts or Humanities Learning Outcomes

demonstrate an understanding of and ability to apply the principles, methodologies, value systems, and thought processes employed in the arts and humanities;
analyze cultural production as an expression of, or reflection upon, what it means to be human; and
demonstrate how the perspectives of the arts and humanities are used by informed, engaged, and reflective citizens to benefit local and global communities.

Diversity Overlay Learning Outcomes
Social Justice Overlay #1: Use a disciplinary perspective to analyze issues of social justice and equity.
Social Justice Overlay #2: Describe the challenges to achieving social justice.
Social Justice Overlay #3: Identify ways which individuals and/or groups can contribute to social justice within local communities, nations, and/or the world.