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Graduate Course Proposal Form Submission Detail - HIS7939
Tracking Number - 5453
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Submission Type: New
Course Change Information (for course changes only):
Comments: Withdrawn at faculty request 9/29/16
Detail Information
- Date & Time Submitted: 2016-04-15
- Department:
- College: HT
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- Contact Person: Julia F. Irwin
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- Prefix: HIS
- Number: 7939
- Full Title: The U.S. in an Age of Empire, 1877-1945
- Credit Hours: 3
- Section Type: -
- Is the course title variable?:
- Is a permit required for registration?:
- Are the credit hours variable?:
- Is this course repeatable?:
- If repeatable, how many times?: 0
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- Course Online?: -
- Percentage Online: 0
- Grading Option:
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- Prerequisites:
- Corequisites:
- Course Description: This seminar examines the history and historiography of the United States in a domestic and global context, c. 1877-1945.
- Please briefly explain why it is necessary and/or desirable to add this course:
- What is the need or demand for this course? (Indicate if this course is part of a required sequence in the major.) What other programs would this course service?
- Has this course been offered as Selected Topics/Experimental Topics course? If yes, how many times?
- What qualifications for training and/or experience are necessary to teach this course? (List minimum qualifications for the instructor.)
- Objectives: In this class we will:
•discuss central themes in the history of the United States in a global context, c. 1877-1945
•become familiar with significant authors, arguments, and texts in the historiography of this era
•develop students’ skills in researching and writing historiographical essays and historical scholarship
- Learning Outcomes: After completing this course, students will be able to:
•enumerate central themes in the history of the United States in a global context, c. 1877-1945
•identify, describe, and analyze (orally and in writing) the authors, arguments, and texts that constitute the historiography of this era
•propose, conceptualize, research, and write a historiographical review, thesis or dissertation chapter, or historical journal article based on U.S. history in a global context, c. 1877-1945
- Major Topics:
- Textbooks:
- Course Readings, Online Resources, and Other Purchases: •Kristin Hoganson, Consumers’ Imperium: The Global Production of American Domesticity, 1865-1920
•Charles Postel, The Populist Vision
•Ian Tyrrell, Crisis of a Wasteful Nation: Empire and Conservation in Theodore Roosevelt’s America
•Jacobson, Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and Abroad, 1867-1917
•April Merleaux, Sugar and Civilization: American Empire and the Cultural Politics of Sweetness
•David Suisman, Selling Sounds: The Commercial Revolution in American Music
•Dwayne Winseck and Robert Pike, Communication and Empire: Media, Markets, and Globalization, 1860–1930
•Adam Ewing, The Age of Garvey: How a Jamaican Activist Created a Mass Movement and Changed Global Black Politics
•Alison Greene, No Depression in Heaven: The Great Depression, the New Deal, and the Transformation of Religion in the Delta
•Kiran Klaus Patel, The New Deal: A Global History
•Purely Optional: Julia F. Irwin, Making the World Safe: The American Red Cross and a Nation’s Humanitarian Awakening. I have assigned my book for this course, but I do not expect you to buy it. It is available at the USF Library as an ebook and in hard cover, so no need to buy it (unless you want to).
•Other readings will be available on Canvas.
- Student Expectations/Requirements and Grading Policy: Participation and Engagement (40%)
Three Book Reviews: One 500-word, One 750-word, and One 1,000-word (20%)
A Written Assignment, Determined in Consultation With Me (40%)
A: 93-100 A-: 90-92 B+: 87-89 B: 83-86 B-: 80-82 C+ 77-79
C: 73-76 C-: 70-72 D+: 67-69 D: 63-66 D-: 60-62 F: Below 60
- Assignments, Exams and Tests:
- Attendance Policy: Course Attendance at First Class Meeting – Policy for Graduate Students: For structured courses, 6000 and above, the College/Campus Dean will set the first-day class attendance requirement. Check with the College for specific information. This policy is not applicable to courses in the following categories: Educational Outreach, Open University (TV), FEEDS Program, Community Experiential Learning (CEL), Cooperative Education Training, and courses that do not have regularly scheduled meeting days/times (such as, directed reading/research or study, individual research, thesis, dissertation, internship, practica, etc.). Students are responsible for dropping undesired courses in these categories by the 5th day of classes to avoid fee liability and academic penalty. (See USF Regulation – Registration - 4.0101,
http://usfweb2.usf.edu/usfgc/ogc%20web/currentreg.htm)
Attendance Policy for the Observance of Religious Days by Students: In accordance with Sections 1006.53 and 1001.74(10)(g) Florida Statutes and Board of Governors Regulation 6C-6.0115, the University of South Florida (University/USF) has established the following policy regarding religious observances: (http://usfweb2.usf.edu/usfgc/gc_pp/acadaf/gc10-045.htm)
In the event of an emergency, it may be necessary for USF to suspend normal operations. During this time, USF may opt to continue delivery of instruction through methods that include but are not limited to: Blackboard, Elluminate, Skype, and email messaging and/or an alternate schedule. It’s the responsibility of the student to monitor Blackboard site for each class for course specific communication, and the main USF, College, and department websites, emails, and MoBull messages for important general information.
- Policy on Make-up Work:
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- if you have questions about any of these fields, please contact chinescobb@grad.usf.edu or joe@grad.usf.edu.