History H105 Professor E. B. Monroe
Fall, 2003 Office: Cavanaugh 529
Classroom: Cavanaugh 215 Phone: 278-2255
Office
hours: Tues. and Thurs.
This course introduces the main themes of American history. Because of the vast amount of material to be covered, this course is designed as a series of lectures and discussions, based on, but also supplementing, assigned readings in a standard text, three monographs, and primary source materials.
GOALS: This course will acquaint
students with the development of
METHOD: Students are expected to be familiar with the assigned readings in the text and monographs. Most of the class periods will be devoted to lectures, but several classes will be reserved for student discussion, particularly of the monographs and primary sources. Questions, of course, are welcome at any time.
PRINCIPLES OF UNDERGRADUATE LEARNING: Students will be expected to read, write about, and discuss the materials presented in this course. In written assignments particularly, students will be expected to analyze evidence, argument, and conclusions of the authors of assigned texts (and lectures) to reach reasoned conclusions. Students will synthesize the materials of American history to better understand how our institutions were formed and how interpretations about that formation have influenced our cultural traditions.
EVALUATION: There will be two essay exams and three essay quizzes to test the students’ knowledge of the material covered. Study questions will be handed out one week in advance of each quiz/exam.
MAKE-UP POLICY: It is the
responsibility of the student to notify the instructor prior to the exam/quiz
of his/her intended absence and the reason for it. Makeups for the quizzes and mid-term exam
will be scheduled at
COURSE GRADE: Each essay exam is worth 40% of the final grade. Each quiz is worth 7%. Grades for the course will be: A = 90-100; B = 80-89; C = 70-79; D = 60-69; F = 59 and below.
EXTRA CREDIT: For ten points extra credit on the final grade students may either: choose to rewrite all three quizzes as formal papers or may choose to visit two approved local historic sites and prepare formal analyses of the sites. Instructions for these formal essays will be handed out after the first quiz.
TEXTS:
David Goldfield, et al. The American Journey: A History of the
James Deetz. In Small Things Forgotten: The Archaeology of Early American Life. (New York: Doubleday, rev. and exp. ed., 1996).
Bernard Bailyn. Ideological Origins of the American Revolution. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, enl. ed., 1992).
Gary Moulton (ed.). The Lewis and
POLICIES:
All students are expected to attend and participate in every class. If you arrive late to class or leave early, please enter or leave through the rear classroom door and take a seat quietly.
All assignments are due on the specified dates.
A grade of zero (0) will be assigned to any work produced by cheating or plagiarism. To prevent misunderstanding, IUPUI defines cheating and plagiarism as:
Cheating: Cheating is dishonesty of any kind with respect to examinations, course assignments, alteration of records, or illegal possession of examinations. It is the responsibility of the student not only to abstain from cheating, but, in addition, to avoid the appearance of cheating and to guard against making it possible for others to cheat. Any student who helps another student to cheat is as guilty of cheating as the student assisted. The student should also do everything possible to induce respect for the examining process and for honesty in the performance of assigned tasks in or out of class.
Plagiarism: Plagiarism is the offering of the work of someone else as one’s own. Honesty requires that any ideas or materials taken from another source for either written or oral use must be fully acknowledged. The language or ideas taken from another may range from isolated formulas, sentences, or paragraphs to entire articles copied from books, periodicals, speeches, or the writings of other students. The offering of materials assembled or collected by others in the form of projects or collections without acknowledgment is also considered plagiarism. Any student who fails to give credit for ideas or materials taken from another source is guilty of plagiarism.
A grade of “incomplete” will not be assigned except in the event of a catastrophe such as serious personal illness or death of a family member. All incompletes must be arranged in advance of the final day of class. Arrangement for an incomplete will require the instructor’s approval of a signed statement from the student about the reason for requesting the incomplete and a date when all remaining work will be submitted.
ASSIGNMENTS:
AUG 21 American Journey Chapter 1 Worlds Apart
26 American Journey Chapter 2 Transplantation, 1600-1685
28
SEP 2 Deetz, In Small Things Forgotten FIRST ESSAY QUIZ
4 American Journey Chapter 3 Creation of New Worlds
9 American Journey Chapter 4 Convergence and Conflict, 1660s-1763
11 American Journey Chapter 5 Imperial Breakdown, 1763-1774
16 Bailyn, Ideological Origins SECOND ESSAY QUIZ
18 NO CLASS
23 American Journey Chapter 6 War for
25 American Journey Chapter 7
30
OCT 2 REVIEW FOR MID-TERM
7 MID-TERM EXAM
9 American Journey Chapter 8 New Republic & the Rise of Parties, 1789-1800
OCT 14
16 American Journey Chapter 9 Triumph & Collapse of Jeffersonian Republicanism, 1800-1824
21
23 Lewis and Clark Journals, part 1 THIRD ESSAY QUIZ
28 Lewis and Clark Journals, part 2
30 American Journey, Chapter 10 Jacksonian Era, 1824-1845
NOV 4 American Journey, Chapter 11 Slavery and the Old South, 1800-1860
6 NO CLASS
11 American Journey Chapter 12 LAST DAY TO DROP CLASS
Market Revolution & Social Reform, 1815-1850
13
18 American Journey Chapter 13 Way West
20
25 American Journey Chapter 14 EXTRA CREDIT PAPERS DUE
Politics of Sectionalism, 1846-1861
27 THANKSGIVING–NO CLASS
DEC 2 American Journey Chapter 15 Civil War, 1861-1865
4 REVIEW FOR FINAL EXAM
9 FINAL EXAM,