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Class number:
3265
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Title: Early America |
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Department: History |
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Career: Undergraduate |
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Component: Lecture |
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Session: Regular |
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Instructor's Permission Required: No |
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Grading Basis: Regular |
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Units: 1.00 |
| Enrollment limited to 13 |
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Current enrollment: 11 |
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Available seats: 2 |
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Start date: Tuesday, September 6, 2022 |
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End date: Wednesday, December 21, 2022 |
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Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Schedule: MWF: 10:00AM-10:50AM, LIB - 181 |
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Instructor(s): Wickman, Thomas |
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Prerequisite(s): None |
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Distribution Requirement: Meets Humanities Requirement |
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Note: 5 seats reserved for history majors, 4 seats for first years and 4 seats for sophomores. |
Course Description:
This course introduces students to major developments in the political, economic, and social history of North America from the sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth century. We will study indigenous sovereignty, encounters between Europeans and Native Americans, the founding of European colonies, the rise of the Atlantic slave trade, the Seven Years' War, the American Revolution, the spread of human enslavement, the War of 1812, Indian removal policy, U.S. wars with Native nations, westward expansion, the U.S.-Mexican War, abolitionism, and the Civil War. Students will be challenged to imagine American history within Atlantic and global contexts and to comprehend the expansiveness of Native American homelands and the shifting nature of North American borderlands. |