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Course
Description and Objectives: Despite all
opinions to the contrary, history survey courses such as this one are not
designed to make undergraduates jump through hoops or torture them with requirements
to learn useless information and meaningless dates, all irrelevant to the
students’ futures. Instead, a survey
course is meant to give students a framework for understanding how both the
present and future unfold within structures largely defined by the past. Even the fast-paced, technology-driven
society we find ourselves in today has roots in historical precedents that are
still shaping its development. This
course will focus on the usual themes of politics and economics, but will also
show how ordinary people shaped those forces.
History is not just a mountain of facts, but is instead a sequence of
interconnected events. Understanding
those connections and explaining them through the use of facts is one way to
sharpen your analytical skills, improve your ability to communicate with
others, and, hopefully, to learn something to apply to your own life. These objectives are stated another way as
the IUPUI Principles of Undergraduate Learning:
www.iupui.edu/~history/principlesundergradlearning.htm. We will also discuss these on the first day
of class. More specifically, class
objectives include: understanding the
consequences of the Civil War for all regions of the country; analyzing the
rise of big business and labor unions; understanding the interplay between
business and the federal government; analyzing the move from an isolationist
foreign policy to one of intervention; analyzing the role of reform
organizations; and finally, students will examine all events from multiple
perspectives to understand how all segments of society influenced important
events.
Attendance: Attendance is required and will be taken at
every class meeting. Consistent
attendance will be used to determine borderline grades. Further, material covered in lecture is not
necessarily covered in the required readings.
Attendance at every class meeting will result in a better grade for the
course.
Classroom
procedures: Please arrive on time. If you must arrive late, please enter the
room quietly. Place all cell phones on
vibrate or turn them off for the duration of the class. Please do not leave class early for other
appointments. Listening and note taking
are important study skills, therefore, no tape recorders are allowed.
Cheating
and plagiarism: Don’t do it. You will earn a zero on the work in
question. We will discuss plagiarism on
the first day of class.
Assignments: Students will take two examinations. These examinations will consist of 6
identifications and an essay question. A
study guide will be distributed in class one week prior to each exam. The study guide will include 13 possible
identifications and at least 3 possible essays.
The actual exam will be taken directly from that study guide. There will also be a quiz over Looking Backward and a quiz over LBJ and American Liberalism. The study questions for those quizzes are
part of this syllabus.
Grading:
2
examinations @ 100 points 200
2
quizzes @ 50 points 100
Total
points 300
Grades
are based on a straight scale:
300-270=A; 269-240= B; 239-210=C; 209-180= D; 179 and lower = F. A zero has a greater negative impact on your
final grade than at least some attempt to complete an assignment. Makeup examinations and quizzes are strongly
discouraged. Makeup quizzes WILL NOT be
taken from the study guide. No makeup
exam or quiz will be given without documentation proving an extreme
emergency. Documentation includes
doctors’ forms, funeral notices, accident reports, and similar verifiable
papers. The instructor reserves the
right to refuse to grant a makeup exam or quiz if the documentation is not
presented or is deemed invalid. If a makeup exam or quiz is approved it must be
completed within one week of the original exam or quiz. Incompletes are strongly discouraged and
rarely given. It is not fair to the rest
of the class to request extra time to complete the work.
Schedule of lecture topics, readings, quizzes, and examinations. Please complete the readings before class.
June
28: Introduction to the
Course/Reconstruction
Read: EV Chapter 16
June
29: Rise of Big Business
Read: EV Chapter 18
July
1: Workers and Farmers
Read: EV Chapters 17 and 19
July
5:
July
6: Progressives
Read: EV Chapter 21 and Looking Backward
July
8: Progressives/QUIZ on Looking Backward
July
12: Imperialism
Read: EV Chapter 20
July
13: World War I
Read: EV Chapter 22
July
15: The 1920s
Read: EV Chapter 23
July
19: Depression and the New Deal
Read: EV Chapter 24
July
20: EXAM
I/World War II
July
22: World War II
Read: EV Chapter 25
July
26: Cold War
Read: EV Chapters 26 and 27
July
27: Civil Rights
Read: EV Chapter 28
July
29:
August
2: 1960s
Read: EV Chapter 29 and LBJ
August
3: QUIZ
on LBJ/The1960s
August
5: That 70s Decade/The 80s
Read: EV Chapter 30
August
9: EXAM
II
Study
Guide for Looking Backward
Introduction: What were some of the causes of “disharmony”
at the end of the nineteenth century?
What were historical cases of utopianism in the
Chapters
1-4: Explain the coach story and what
does it mean? Why did people
strike? How did West arrive in 2000?
Chapters
5-7: Why does Dr. Leete say unions
existed in 1887 and how was the labor problem resolved by 2000? Describe the industrial army and how it
worked.
Chapters
9 and 10: How do people acquire goods
with no merchants or banks? What motivates
people to work? How did stores function?
Chapters
11-14: What does music come from in
2000? What can people inherit? Who does the laundry and the cooking? How does this aid women? What sorts of honors do people receive? How does this system work world-wide? Can you walk in the rain?
Chapters
15, 17, 19, 21: How are books and
newspapers published? How is the
Chapter
22: How can the government afford to
support everyone? In other words, how
does the economic system operate?
Chapter
25: Describe women’s lives in 2000.
Study
Guide for Lyndon B. Johnson and American
Liberalism
You
do not have to read the documents section of the book.
Chapter
1: Describe LBJ’s early years. How did LBJ participate in New Deal
activities?
Chapter
2: What were three new areas of focus
for liberals in the late 1940s and 1950s?
How did LBJ function as Senate majority leader? What changes did he make in the office? How did the Democratic Senate work with the
Republican president? How did Johnson
deal with racial issues in the 1950s?
Chapter
3: What were LBJ’s views on racial
policy and
Chapter
4: What was the philosophical basis of the
Great Society? How did LBJ pursue his
programs with Congress? Describe some of
the Great Society programs. What sorts of problems did some Great Society
programs encounter? Why didn’t the
middle-class think the Great Society benefited them when it actually did?
Chapter
5: What was the impetus for the Voting
Rights Act of 1965? Why did universalism
appear not to work with the civil rights problems? How did the EEOC change in the late 1960s?
Chapter
6: What principles and ideas shaped LBJs
attitude toward Vietnam? Briefly explain
the activities of the presidents before LBJ in Vietnam. Why did LBJ get the United States more
involved in Vietnam? What problems did
soldiers face in Vietnam? What was the
credibility gap?
Chapter
7: What were the economic consequences
of funding both the Vietnam War and social programs? Why did people leave the “liberal coalition?”