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Dec 05, 2025
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HIST 111 - The United States Since 1877
Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-4; US-1, US-3
Major developments in United States since the Civil War, including California state and local government, in context of American diversity and socio-economic change. California as microcosm for understanding freedom, equality, democracy. Practice in civic engagement, historical thinking, and collaborative learning.
Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-4 - Lower Division Social and Behavioral Sciences, US-1, US-2
Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground, or Hybrid, or Online-Asynchronous, or Online-Synchronous.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice).
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring
Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:
- Participate in American civic life with an understanding of American and California diversity, California state and local government, and U.S. history since the Civil War (“modern U.S.”);
- Identify major turning points in the influence of the U.S. in world history;
- Read and interpret varieties of sources relating modern U.S. and California history;
- Compare and contrast diverse Americans’ abilities to enjoy citizenship in modern U.S. and California;
- Collaborate with peers in evaluation of difficult problems relating to citizenship in modern U.S. and California;
- Recognize the impact of modern U.S. and California on our own time;
- Demonstrate capacity to tolerate differences of interpretation and listen to others actively and fairly;
- Communicate complex ideas in writing and speaking;
- Understand history as an academic discipline essential to civic participation.
GE-4. Lower-division Social and Behavioral Sciences Electives Learning Outcomes
- Explain how social, political, and economic institutions and/or principles intersect with each other.
- Describe how people produce, resist, and/or transform social, political, and economic institutions/principles.
- Investigate contemporary and/or historical events/issues from a social science perspective.
US-1. U.S. History Learning Outcomes
- Explain the significance or interpretation of major historical events in a period of at least a hundred years of American history;
- Describe the contributions of major ethnic and social groups in a period of at least a hundred years of American history;
- Explain the role of at least three of the following in the development of American culture: politics, economics, social movements, and/or geography.
US-3. California Government Learning Outcomes
- Describe the role of California’s Constitution in state and local government;
- Explain the place of California’s Constitution in the evolution of federal-state relations;
- Describe the political processes that enable cooperation and conflict resolution between state and/or local governments and the federal government.
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