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Nov 09, 2024
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HIST 339 - Colonial British America Description: Social, cultural, political, and economic life in the British colonies of North America to 1763. Course will not have an established scheduling pattern.
Credits: (5)
Learner Outcomes: Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Conceptualize an American history outside the framework of a national political narrative.
- Develop a capacity for empathy towards and engagement with the diverse peoples of early America.
- Engage with people unlike themselves (such as Native Americans and African Americans) on their own terms - rather than as passive victims or “savages” (noble or otherwise).
- Identify, author, and read several genres of historical writing.
- Formulate historical questions, identify relevant evidence, and create convincing interpretations that answer those questions.
- Reconstruct patterns of historical developments, and apply them to fundamentally historical questions about continuity, change, and historical causation.
- Identify and characterize the global forces at work in particular, highly localized colonial societies.
- Apply basic concepts drawn from disciplines such as economics, literary criticism, anthropology and sociology to the study of early American history.
Learner Outcomes Approval Date: 1/8/1998
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