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HISTORY 2020 AMERICAN HISTORY: RECONSTRUCTION-PRESENT COLUMBIA STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE SPRING 2006 SYLLABUS
COURSE MATERIALS Textbook: Alan Brinkley, The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People, 4th edition (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2003) Textbook Website: http://www.mhhe.com/unfinishednation4 The textbook website provides study guides, practice quizzes, maps, exercises, and timelines. It’s a helpful tool to prepare for exams. Log on and set up an account. It’ll save you heartburn and other assorted pain on your exams if you start learning the materials as early as possible. This site is designed to help you do that. Additional REQUIRED Text: A World of Hurt: Between Innocence and Arrogance in Vietnam, by Mary Reynolds Powell (Cleveland: Greenleaf, 2000). There will be 4 quizzes over this book. OTHER: The instructor will occasionally provide handouts for you to read.
Other Stuff I’m Required to Tell You
REQUIRED: Please provide me with your Columbia State e-mail address by the end of the second week of classes. I will be sending out reminders and study tips over e-mail, so it’s a good thing for you to get your address to me. If you don’t, I will personally pester you until you do AND I will take 20 points off your final grade. MANNERS! I’m assuming that you’re all adults here and that you will conduct yourselves in a mature, orderly fashion. If you do not, your instructor (that means me, folks) reserves the right to completely embarrass you in front of your classmates, including asking you to leave if I feel your behavior is disruptive to the class. If you’re clueless about manners, etiquette (BLESS YOUR HEART!), and what is or is not accepted at Columbia State and what your rights are as students here, you can find that info in your catalogs, beginning on page 82.
And perhaps most important, try to keep an open mind. Show some respect for your classmates and instructor during lectures and discussions; we are all here to learn from the materials and from each other. Policy Regarding Absences I’m required to take attendance and file my records with the college. Excessive absences hurt your chances at keeping scholarship money and keeping up in class. I allow THREE (3) unexcused absences. After that, it’s 10 points off your final grade for each. Excused absences are those due to illness (yours or a close family member’s), family medical or other emergency, car trouble, and daycare issues. Policy Regarding Tardies I hate these. I bust my butt to get to class on time, so I expect you to do so as well. I allow TWO (2) unexcused tardies. After that, it’s 5 points off your final grade for each. Excused tardies include those due to car trouble, doctors’ appointments, or other reasonable extenuating circumstances. Grading Total points available: 600 Scale: 540-600 = A 480-539 = B 420-479 = C 360-419 = D Anything below 360. . .YIKES! (F) Exams: 3 (each worth 100 points and no, the final is not cumulative) Reaction Papers: 4 (each worth 25 points for a total of 100 points) Final Project: 1 (worth 100 points) Book Quizzes: 4 (each worth 25 points for a total of 100 points) POLICY REGARDING MAKE-UP EXAMS If you know you’re going to be absent the day of an exam, you MUST inform me ahead of time so you can arrange to take the exam before you leave. If you’re sick, have an emergency, or car trouble that keeps you from showing up on exam day, you MUST inform me either BEFORE or ON exam day. If you do not contact me in some fashion BEFORE or ON exam day and you just don’t show up, it’s a zero. Even if you’re sick. CONTACT ME BEFORE OR ON EXAM DAY IF YOU CAN’T MAKE IT. I expect a legitimate excuse and may require documentation. IF I GRANT YOU A MAKE-UP EXAM, IT WILL BE ALL ESSAY. THE INSTRUCTOR RESERVES THE RIGHT TO ADJUST DUE DATES AND ALTER ASSIGNMENTS AS NECESSARY. HISTORY IS A DYNAMIC FIELD (CONTRARY TO POPULAR BELIEF!); THERE IS ALWAYS SOMETHING GOING ON THAT RELATES TO THE PAST THAT THE INSTRUCTOR MAY WISH TO INCORPORATE INTO THE CLASS. Besides, it keeps you on your toes. COURSE SCHEDULE Week 1 (18 January) Reading: Text, Chapter 15 Reading:World of Hurt, foreword and Chapters 1-6
Week 2 (23 and 25 January) Reading: Chapter 16
Week 3 (30 January and 1 February) Reading: Chapters 17 and 18 Reaction Paper 1 assigned, 1 February
Week 4 (6 and 8 February) Reading: text, pp. 522-533 QUIZ: 8 FEBRUARY, World of Hurt, foreword and Chapters 1-6
Week 5 (13 and 15 February) Reading: Chapters 20 and 21 Reading: World of Hurt, Chapters 7-11 Reaction paper 2 assigned, 15 February REACTION PAPER 1 DUE, 15 FEBRUARY
Week 6 (20 and 22 February) Reading: Chapter 21 EXAM 1! WEDNESDAY, 22 FEBRUARY!
Week 7 (27 February and 1 March) Reading: Chapter 22 REACTION PAPER 2 DUE, 1 MARCH! QUIZ! 1 MARCH, World of Hurt, Chapters 7-11
Week 8: SPRING BREAK! NO CLASSES!
Week 9 (13 and 15 March) Reading: Chapter 23 Reading: World of Hurt, Chapters 12-17 Reaction Paper 3 assigned, 15 March
Week 10 (20 and 22 March) Reading: Chapter 24 QUIZ! 22 MARCH, World of Hurt, Chapters 12-17
Week 11 (27 and 29 March) Reading: Chapters 25 and 26 Reading: World of Hurt, Chapters 18-22, epilogue, “where we are today” Reaction Paper 4 assigned, 29 March REACTION PAPER 3 DUE! 29 MARCH! EXAM 2! 29 MARCH!
Week 12 (3 and 5 April) Reading: Chapters 27 and 28
Week 13 (10 and 12 April) Reading: Chapters 29 and 30 QUIZ! 12 APRIL, World of Hurt, Chapters 18-22, epilogue, “where we are today” REACTION PAPER 4 DUE! 12 APRIL!
Week 14 (17 and 19 April) Reading: Chapters 31-33 FINAL PROJECTS DUE ON OR BEFORE 19 APRIL! I WILL NOT ACCEPT LATE PROJECTS!
Week 15 (24 and 26 April) Reading: Chapter 34 FINAL EXAM: WEDNESDAY 3 MAY, 2 PM, CLEMENT 204! |
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