Jul 01, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
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HIST 3008 - The Age of Hamilton and Jackson: Life in Early America
This class examines the founding and early decades of the United States, an era that continues to weigh heavily in American politics, thought, and culture. Students examine the country’s revolutionary origins and the constitutional framework created in the 1770s and 1780s through its expansion across the Continent in the 1840s. They examine how diverse peoples of European, African, and Native American ancestry struggled to coexist and accommodate one another in North America. The course explores the developments and lasting legacies of institution building, slavery, debates over political economy, westward expansion, (including its effects on Native and African-Americans), the nation’s place on the world stage, and the emergence of competing parties and ideologies during the Jacksonian period.
Requisites: Soph or Jr or Sr
Credit Hours: 3
OHIO BRICKS Bridge: Diversity and Practice, Bridge: Learning and Doing
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Students will be able to demonstrate critical reading and thinking skills by evaluating primary and secondary accounts from the period of study.
- Students will be able to identify and explain the motives of diverse historical figures and situate their thinking and actions in the context of key events and developments in the history of the early United States Republic.
- Students will be able to explain and empathize diverse individuals’ worldviews, including those culturally defined as Native American, African-American, and Euro-American.
- Students will be able to identify and discuss different perspectives on American democracy from the period and reflect on how they and their own society continues to be informed by those ideas.
- Students will be able to explain how the history and institutions of the early republic continue to inform their own perceptions and modern political practices.
- Students will be able to use historical texts and images to discuss how verbal and non-verbal communication generates notions of racial, ethnic, and political difference that continue to inform contemporary understanding.
- Students will be able to demonstrate research skills by defining research questions and using online, printed, and manuscript sources to draw conclusions about the period and evolving understandings of it.
- Students will be able to document, summarize, and synthesize their research and site visits in written and verbal form.
- Students will be able to illustrate how contemporary debates continue to draw from conflicting legacies of the early republic.
- Students will be able to apply the methods of digital humanities to convey their experience and knowledge to others for review by the public.
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