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Graduate Course Proposal Form Submission Detail - HIS7939
Tracking Number - 5463
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Current Status:
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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Comments: Withdrawn at faculty request 9/29/16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: 7939
- Full Title: U.S. History, 1865-1945
- 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 graduate seminar explores the history of the United States from the end of the Civil War to the end of World War II.
- 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. 1865-1945
•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: •enumerate central themes in the history of the United States in a global context, c. 1865-1945
•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. 1865-1945
- Major Topics:
- Textbooks:
- Course Readings, Online Resources, and Other Purchases: •David Cecelski, The Fire of Freedom: Abraham Galloway and the Slaves' Civil War
•Kate Masur, An Example for All the Land: Emancipation and the Struggle Over Equality in Washington, DC
•Hannah Rosen, Terror in the Heart of Freedom: Citizenship, Sexual Violence, and the Meaning of Race in the Postemancipation South
•Greg Downs, Declarations of Dependence: the Long Reconstruction of Popular Politics in the South, 1861-1908
•Cathleen Cahill, Federal Fathers and Mothers: A Social History of the United States Indian Service, 1869-1933
•Nayan Shah, Stranger Intimacy: Contesting Race, Sexuality, and the Law in the North American West
•Katherine Benton-Cohen, Borderline Americans: Racial Division and Labor War in the Arizona Border Lands
•Susan K. Harris, God's Arbiters: Americans and the Philippines
•David Brody, Visualizing American Empire: Orientalism and Imperialism in the Philippines
•Karl Jacoby, Crimes Against Nature; Squatters, Poachers, Thieves and the Hidden History of American Conservation
•David Huyssen, Progressive Inequality: Rich and Poor in New York, 1890-1920
•Julia Ott, When Wall Street Met Main Street: The Quest for an Investor's Democracy
•Christopher Capozzola, Uncle Sam Wants You: World War I and the Making of the Modern American Citizen
•Chad L. Williams, Torchbearers of Democracy: African American Soldiers in the World War I Era
- Student Expectations/Requirements and Grading Policy: Your grades will be calculated as follows:
• Analytical papers: 10% each
• Dehydrated research paper: 30%
• Participation (includes attendance, involvement in discussion, and completion of weekly cheat sheets): 40%
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.