HIST 376 - Destroying Slavery in the US Civil War
Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-UD-3
Examination of the history of the Civil War and Reconstruction eras. Emphasis on discourse and actions among Black Americans and enslaved people defining the course of the Civil War; US relations with Indigenous peoples.
Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-UD-3 - Upper Division Arts or Humanities
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. Review origins of the Civil War in contests over the moral problem of slavery;
2. Examine Black Americans’ and enslaved people’s actions and agency in shaping outcomes of the US Civil War;
3. Analyze shifting ethical, political, and military understandings of the Civil War over time;
6. Consider US relations and military engagements with Indigenous peoples;
7. Compare and contrast plans for Reconstruction with actual implementation, including freed people’s expectations for their freedom;
8. Trace the use of violence to undermine the Civil Rights amendments of the Reconstruction era;
9. Contribute constructively to debates about the larger meaning of the Civil War era and its legacies for our current political and cultural circumstances.
GE-UD-3. Upper-division Arts or Humanities Learning Outcomes
- Demonstrate an understanding of and ability to apply principles, methodologies, values 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.
- Demonstrate how the perspectives of the arts or humanities are used by informed, engaged, and reflective citizens to benefit local and global communities.
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