Explores the social history of the United States since the late nineteenth century, with special attention to changes resulting from industrialization and urbanization.
Goals, Topics, and Objectives
- Gilded Age Industrialization
- Urbanization
- Immigration and Ethnicity
- Race and Civil Rights
- Progressive Era Reform
- Rise to World Power
- Bureaucratization of American Society
- Rise to Superpower Status
- Suburbanization and Economic Prosperity
- Deindustrialization and Economic Decline
- The World’s Only Superpower and Its Problems
Upon successful completion of this course, a student should be able to:
1. Outline time and chronology in Modern American Social History.
2. Identify, summarize, and analyze major elements of Modern American Social History.
3. Analyze cause and effect in Modern American Social History.
4. Trace elements of change and continuity in Modern American Social History.
5. Emphasize parallelism by describing the impact of major events, personalities, and places upon Modern American Social History.
Upon successful completion of this course, a student should be able to:
1. Identify the major aspects of Gilded Age Industrialization.
2. Analyze the problems of American urbanization.
3. Describe the ethnic and racial diversity of the United States.
4. Explain the role of race and the struggle for civil rights in the development of the United States.
5. Explain how Progressive Era reform impacted American society.
6. Analyze the impact on the average American of the rise of the United States to world power status.
7. Describe the bureaucratization of American society.
8. Explain how the United States’ rise to Superpower status has impacted the average American.
9. Analyze how post-1945 suburbanization and economic prosperity changed American society.
10. Explain how post-1970 deindustrialization and economic decline changed American society.
11. Identify the problems that Americans may encounter in the future because of the United States’ status as the world’s only superpower.
Assessment and Requirements
Assessment of academic achievement will be identified and implemented by the class instructor. Methods will include, but will not be limited to, individual projects, vocabulary, class participation (discussion and critiques), and tests.
Each instructor will select the teaching materials she/he feels are best suited to her/his course.
Outcomes
- Social Sciences
- Humanities and Fine Arts
- Civil Society and Culture - U.S. and Global
- Category 4: Social Sciences
- Category 5: Humanities and Fine Arts