The minimum number of participants for this course is: 10
This course is a required general education course if you are pursuing the associate's degree from North Central Missouri College.
3-Day workshop, Plus, Distance Learning Lessons Course
A survey course considering national growth and development,
and the constantly broadening sphere of American participation in world affairs
from Reconstruction to the present time.
Course Learning Objectives
- Understand and place in
time significant trends, movements, and events in American history, and
the United States’ role in world affairs
- Identify and interpret
primary and secondary sources, placing them in the context of their time
and place and assessing them for reliability and point of view
- Formulate and
communicate historical arguments based on the interpretation of primary
and secondary sources
- Analyze how the diverse
political, social, economic, and cultural dimensions of the human
experience have influenced American history
- Use historical analysis
to evaluate cause and effect, comparisons and contrasts, and patterns of
continuity and change over time.
- Describe and explain the
constitutions of the United States and Missouri
