Dec 05, 2025  
2025-2026 Cal State East Bay Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Cal State East Bay Catalog

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HIST 373 - American and Haitian Revolutions: Wars of Independence, 1750-1850


Units: 4 ; Breadth Area: GE-UD-3; Social Justice
Experiences of American Indian/Indigenous, African, and European peoples in rebellions against monarchy, colonialism and slavery between 1750 and 1850. Revolutions in North America, Haiti, and France compared. Perspectives on social justice movements in the Age of Revolutions. 

Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-UD-3 - Upper-Division Arts or Humanities (Humanities); Social Justice
Prerequisites: Completion of GE Areas 1A, 1B, 1C and GE-2 with grade C- (CR) or better (GE Areas A1, A2, A3 and B4 for students on the 2024-25 or earlier catalogs).
Strongly Recommended Preparation: Upper division status (greater than 60 earned semester units) and completion of lower division Area 3 requirements (lower division Area C requirements for students on the 2024-25 or earlier catalogs).
Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground, or Hybrid, or Online-Asynchronous, or Online-Synchronous.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice).
Course Typically Offered: Variable Intermittently


Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:
1. Identify key causes, processes, and outcomes of the American and Haitian Revolutions; 

2. Identify and describe the key historical figures of the American and Haitian Revolutions; 

3. Compare and contrast the varied experiences of American Indian/Indigenous, African, and European peoples in the American and Haitian Revolutions. 

4. Analyze issues of social justice and equity in the American and Haitian Revolutions.  

GE-4. Lower-division Social and Behavioral Sciences Electives Learning Outcomes
 

GE-UD-3. Upper-division Arts or Humanities Learning Outcomes
 

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

 
Social Justice 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.

 



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