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Graduate Course Proposal Form Submission Detail - HIS7199
Tracking Number - 5462
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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Comments: Withdrawn at faculty request 9/29/16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: 7199
- Full Title: 19th 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 United States in the 19th Century.
- 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. 1800-1900
•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. 1800-1900
•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. 1800-1900
- Major Topics:
- Textbooks:
- Course Readings, Online Resources, and Other Purchases: •Emily Clark, The Strange History of the American Quadroon: Free Women of Color in the Revolutionary Atlantic World
•Seth Rockman, Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore
•Tiya Miles, Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom
•Catherine McNeur, Taming Manhattan: Environmental Battles in the Antebellum City
•Edward Baptist, The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
•Kyle Volk, Moral Minorities and the Making of American Democracy
•Kathryn Gin Lum, Damned Nation; Hell in America from Revolution to Reconstruction
•Sven Beckert, Empire of Cotton: A Global History
•Don Doyle, The Cause of All Nations: An International History of the American Civil War
•Stephanie McCurry, Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South
•Gregory P. Downs, After Appomattox: Military Occupation and the Ends of Reconstruction
•Karl Jacoby, Shadows at Dawn: An Apache Massacre and the Violence of History
•Lisa Tetrault, The Myth of Seneca Falls: Memory and the Women's Suffrage Movement
•Jonathan Levy, Freaks of Fortune: The Emerging World of Capitalism and Risk in America
- 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.