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Graduate Course Proposal Form Submission Detail - HIS7200
Tracking Number - 5461
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Current Status:
Removed from DB by orginator -
Campus: Tampa
Submission Type: New
Course Change Information (for course changes only):
Comments: Withdrawn at faculty request 9/29/16
Detail Information
- Date & Time Submitted: 2016-04-29
- Department: History
- College: HT
- Budget Account Number:
- Contact Person: Stephen Prince
- Phone: 8139746219
- Email: ksp@usf.edu
- Prefix: HIS
- Number: 7200
- Full Title: 20th Century U.S. History
- Credit Hours: 3
- Section Type: -
- Is the course title variable?:
- Is a permit required for registration?: Y
- Are the credit hours variable?:
- Is this course repeatable?:
- If repeatable, how many times?: 0
- Abbreviated Title (30 characters maximum):
- Course Online?: -
- Percentage Online: 0
- Grading Option:
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- Prerequisites:
- Corequisites:
- Course Description: This graduate seminar explores the history of the modern United States, c. 1890-2000.
- 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, c. 1890-2000
•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, c. 1890-2000
•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, c. 1890-2000
- Major Topics:
- Textbooks:
- Course Readings, Online Resources, and Other Purchases: •Glenda Gilmore and Thomas Sugrue, These United States: A Nation in the Making, 1890-Present (W.W. Norton)
•Allyson Hobbs, A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life (Harvard University Press)
•Thomas A. Guglielmo, White on Arrival: Italians, Race, Color, and Power in Chicago, 1890–1945 (Oxford University Press)
•Leslie Brown, Upbuilding Black Durham: Gender, Class, and Black Community Development in the Jim Crow South (The University of North Carolina Press)
•Geraldo L. Cadava, Standing on Common Ground: The Making of a Sunbelt Borderland (Harvard University Press)
•Mae M. Ngai, Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America (Princeton University Press)
Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism (Cambridge University Press)
•Timothy B. Tyson, Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power (University of North Carolina Press)
•Danielle L. McGuire, At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance–A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power (Alfred A. Knopf)
•Bethany Moreton, To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise (Harvard University Press)
- Student Expectations/Requirements and Grading Policy: Your grades will be calculated as follows:
• Analytical papers: 15% each
• Dehydrated research paper: 25%
• Participation (includes attendance, involvement in discussion, and completion of weekly cheat sheets): 30%
I use a +/- grading system. Grade distribution is as follows:
• A+ (100 – 97) / A (96 – 93) / A- (92-90)
• B+ (89-87) / B (86-83) / B- (82-80)
• C+ (79 – 77) / C (76 – 73) / C- (72-70)
• D+ (69-67) / D (66-63) / D- (62-60)
• F (below 60)
- Assignments, Exams and Tests: There are four major writing assignments for this course: three analytical papers and a dehydrated research paper.
- 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:
- Program This Course Supports:
- Course Concurrence Information:
- if you have questions about any of these fields, please contact chinescobb@grad.usf.edu or joe@grad.usf.edu.