HIST108 - AMERICAN ORIGINS

Status
O
Activity
LEC
Title (text only)
HIST108 - AMERICAN ORIGINS
Term
2016C
Syllabus
Subject area
HIST
Section number only
001
Section ID
HIST108001
Registration notes

SECTION ACTIVITY CO-REQUISITE REQUIRED; CULTURAL DIVERSITY IN US; HISTORY & TRADITION SECTOR

Meeting times
MW 1100AM-1200PM
Meeting location
ANNENBERG SCHOOL 111
Instructors
RICHTER, DANIEL
Description
The United States was not inevitable. With that assumption as its starting point, this course surveys North American history from about 1500 to about 1850, with the continent's many peoples and cultures in view. The unpredictable emergence of the U.S. as a nation is a focus, but always in the context of wider developments: global struggles among European empires; conflicts between indigenous peoples and settler-colonists; exploitation of enslaved African labor; evolution of distinctive colonial societies; and, finally, independence movements inspired by a transatlantic revolutionary age.
Course number only
108
Use local description
No
Section Type
CULTURAL DIVERSITY IN THE US
LPS Course
false
Major Concentrations
Major/Minor Requirements Fulfilled