History
H105 Professor
E. B. Monroe
Fall, 2005 Office:
Cavanaugh 529
Classroom:
Cavanaugh 217 Phone:
278-2255
Office
hours: Mon. and Wed.
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 United States history from early exploration
attempts by Europeans to the conclusion of the Civil War. Students will gain a substantive understanding
of the events and issues that helped create the American culture. They will also be introduced to the research
methods and the materials used by professional historians.
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 7:00 am one week after the initial assigned date. There will be no exceptions to the make-up
schedule without prior approval from the instructor.
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 as much as ten
points extra credit on the final grade students may visit Conner Prairie and
prepare a journal of their visit.
Instructions on the preparation of the journal will be handed out after
the first quiz.
TEXTS:
David Goldfield, et al. The American Journey: A History of the
United States. (Upper Saddle River,
NJ: Pearson Education/Prentice Hall, 3rd ed., 2004).
John Ruston Pagan. Anne
Orthwood’s Bastard: Sex and Law in Early Virginia. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003).
Bernard Bailyn. Ideological Origins of the American
Revolution. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard
University Press, enl. ed., 1992).
Gary Moulton (ed.). The Lewis and Clark Journals: An American
Epic of Discovery (Abridgement).
(Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2003).
POLICIES:
All students are expected to
attend and participate in every class.
Attendance will be taken every day and more than two unexplained
absences will result in a lowering of the student’s overall course grade. 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 and will be penalized if submitted after the date they are due.
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.
The Student Advocate is located
in UC002. Phone 278-7594 or email
stuadvoc@iupui.edu
See the student advocate website
http://www.life.iupui.edu/advocate/
ASSIGNMENTS:
AUG 24 American Journey Chapter 1 Worlds Apart
29 American Journey Chapter 2
Transplantation, 1600-1685
31 American Journey Chapter 3
Creation of New Worlds
SEP 5 LABOR DAY–NO CLASS
7 Pagan,
Anne Orthwood’s Bastard FIRST
ESSAY QUIZ
12 American Journey Chapter 4
Convergence and Conflict, 1660s-1763
14
19 American Journey Chapter 5
Imperial Breakdown, 1763-1774
21 NO CLASS
26 Bailyn, Ideological Origins of
the American Revolution SECOND
ESSAY QUIZ
28 American Journey Chapter 6 War
for Independence, 1774-1783
OCT 3
5 REVIEW
FOR MIDTERM EXAM
10 MIDTERM EXAM
12 American Journey Chapter 7 First
Republic, 1776-1789
17
19 American Journey Chapter 8 New
Republic & the Rise of Parties, 1789-1800
24
26
OCT 31 Lewis and Clark Journals,
part 1 THIRD
ESSAY QUIZ
NOV 2 Lewis
and Clark Journals part 2
7 American
Journey Chapter 9 Triumph & Collapse of Jeffersonian Republicanism,
1800-1824
9
14 American Journey,
Chapter 10 Jacksonian Era, 1824-1845
16 American Journey, Chapter 11
Slavery and the Old South, 1800-1860
21 EXTRA
CREDIT ESSAYS DUE
23 THANKSGIVING BREAK
28 American Journey Chapter 12
Market
Revolution & Social Reform, 1815-1850
30 American Journey Chapter 13 Way
West
DEC 5 American
Journey Chapter 14
Politics
of Sectionalism, 1846-1861
7 American
Journey Chapter 15 Civil War, 1861-1865
12 REVIEW FOR FINAL EXAM
14 FINAL
EXAM, 8:00 to 10:00am