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HIST 272/6.0: United States, Colonial Era to Present
Delivery Mode: Online
Term Offered: Fall/Winter 2013-14
Session Dates: Sep 9, 2013 - Apr 4, 2014
Exam Dates: Apr 10-26, 2014
Exclusions: HIST 249/3.0
This course is available to both Queen’s and non-Queen’s students. Non-Queen’s students (including interest students, visiting students, and new online degree students) must first apply for admission. The following course description is presented for informational purposes only and is subject to change.
Instructor
Dr. James Taylor Carson Learn more about the instructor...
E-mail: jc35@queensu.ca
Course Description
A survey of political, economic, and social developments in the United States from its colonial beginnings to the post-World War II era.
Course Objectives/Topics Covered
This online history course surveys American history from colonization to the present and will encompass such major interpretive themes as the development of American democracy and imperialism, the definition of who is an American at various points in time, and the continuities and discontinuities that connect or not such themes over time and such points in time.
The baseline will consist of a US history textbook to provide chronology, must-know events and people, and the basic story, but the real work will come from the sets of special readings and assignments. Sometimes these will involve classic articles that take one position or another on a certain point of interpretation. Sometimes a piece of recent scholarship to show what is being done in the field today. And sometimes an important primary source, sound clip, or film to introduce you to the practice of historical interpretation.
Ideally the course will draw a thick and straight line of continuity between the earliest days of colonization and the “War on Terror” that confronts us today. Whether or not you agree with such an approach or interpretation will be up to you and the work you do over the coming months. In the end, you will need to be able to argue what you think is the most important theme in American history and how it relates to the course readings and assignments.
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