Jul 08, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
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T3 4100 - The Intellectual Origins of the American Revolution
This interdisciplinary course examines the intellectual origins of the American Revolution. In particular, it will explore the ways in which English and North American authors thought about sovereignty, religion and empire from 1550s until the 1770s and the ways in which thinking on those subjects laid the intellectual groundwork for the American Revolution. Among the authors considered are John Milton, Thomas Hobbes, and John Locke.
Requisites: Sr only
Credit Hours: 3
General Education Code (students who entered prior to Fall 2021-22): 3
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:
- Oral presentations are clear and comprehensive.
- Student’s work demonstrates critical use and proper citation of both primary and secondary sources.
- Student’s work employs the formal styles of writing, argumentation, and presentation that historians use.
- Student’s work reflects an understanding of historiographic traditions.
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