fall 2014 call# 80862 online only
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FALL 2014
HIST 1302.01W – U.S. HISTORY FROM 1877 CALL# 80862 ONLINE ONLY
Instructor: Darina G. Davis Office Location: FERGUSON SOCIAL SCIENCES BLDG #130 Office Hours: ONLINE through EMAIL. Office Phone: 903 468-6093 Dept. Phone: 903 886-5226 Dept. Fax: 903 468-3230 University Email Address: [email protected]
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COURSE INFORMATION
Materials Textbook Required: The American Promise: A History of the United States Volume 2 5th edition – ISBN: 9780312663148 by Roark, Johnson, Cohen, Stage, & Hartmann. Additional Readings: Will be posted online – the instructor will let you know
when and where to find them. Course Description:
U.S. History from 1865 is a broad interdisciplinary course in the historical development of the United States and North America from 1865.
Pre/co-requisite Eng. 1301 or 1302. As a result of the quantity of information that must be examined, this course, essentially, is not a comprehensive assessment of that history. Still, the developments discussed in History 1302 ought to serve as a prologue to many tribulations that Americans continue to encounter today, and as such, has relevance for students regardless of their personal interests in the past. Student Learning Outcomes:
1. Students will be able to form substantive and evidence-driven arguments to propose
solutions to problems or explain phenomena. 2. Student communication will follow conventions of grammar and syntax appropriate
to the audience, purpose, and message. 3. Students will demonstrate awareness of societal and/or civic issues. 4. EXTRA POINTS 25 GIVEN IF ON TIME - Students will be able to understand their
role in their own education – Student Responsibility Sheet will be turned in online in Dropbox labeled SRS by Friday September 12, 2014. (Find the document in eCollege under the Document Sharing Tab).
COURSE REQUIREMENTS
Instructional / Methods / Activities Assessments
A. Participation: 200 Points – Weekly Response due by Wednesday at 8:00 pm & Responses to classmates due the following day by Noon. You are expected to participate in the discussion section for each week in two ways. 1) You will directly address the topics I have established by writing a paragraph of at least 100 words 2) You will engage the comments of your fellow students by directly replying to them. You should make the effort to respond to your classmates' comments in a substantive way. Unfortunately, this is the only way I can objectively measure the level of your engagement in an online class. Therefore, err on the side of caution and try to respond to several
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comments per topic thread. To receive full participation credit students must log in consistently throughout the semester, participate on topics several times during each week’s discussions by providing substantive comments, and stay current with all readings and assignments. Late work will not be accepted.
B. ONLINE AMERICAN PROMISE ACTIVITIES: 100 Points - All assigned activities will be due on Friday of each week at Noon.
This course as an accompaniment with Bedford/St. Martins the maker of the textbook assigned. Dear Students,
My online course is open for student registration--follow the simple steps below to get started.
Go to http://www.macmillanhighered.com/launchpad/roarkconcise5e/584670
Bookmark the page to make it easy to return to. You don't have an access code, either click the "Purchase Access" or "Temporary Access"
button. If you have any questions or problems logging in, please contact Technical Support.
Technical support will need a technical support incident ID if you continue to have trouble, so be sure to save that ID when you report your issue. You can reach a representative:
by phone at (877) 587-6534 through our online form
Tech Support Hours (all times EST) Monday - Thursday 9:00 AM - 3:00 AM Friday 9:00 AM - 11:00 PM Saturday 11:30 AM - 8:00 PM Sunday 11:30 AM - 11:30 PM System Requirements: www.macmillanhighered.com/sysreq Looking forward to seeing you in class! Darina Davis [email protected]
Late work will not be accepted. 1. Chapter 18 in Launch Pad – Read John D. Rockefeller, Standard Oil, and
the Trust (18), Railroads: America’s First Big Business, and Railroads (18a), Trusts, and the Federal Government (18e). Complete Assigned: 18a. Map Activity 1 for Chapter 18, Visual Activity for Chapter 18, and in Documents from Reading the American Past, Chapter 18 – Choose 1 to read and submit responses to the questions.
2. Chapter 23 in Launch Pad – Read 23b The Roaring Twenties, Prohibition, The New Woman, The New Negro, Entertainment for the Masses, and The Lost Generation. Read from 23c Rejecting the Undesirables, The Rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan, and The Scopes Trial. Then pick 2 of the Documents
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from Reading the American Past to read and submit responses to the questions.
3. Chapter 26 in Launch Pad – Read 26a The Cold War Begins, The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan, 26b Blacks and Mexican Americans Push for Their Civil Rights, The Domestic Chill: McCarthyism, Truman and the Fair Deal at Home, 26c Korea and the Military Implementation of Containment, The Cold War Becomes Hot: Korea. Then complete the 26b Visual Activity for Chapter 26, Map Activity 2 for Chapter 26, and Choose 1 of the Documents from Reading the American Past to read and submit responses to the questions.
4. Chapter 28 in Launch Pad – Read 28a Assessing the Great Society, Liberalism at High Tide, Policymaking for a Great Society, 26b Black Power and the Urban Rebellions, The Flowering of the Black Freedom Struggle, The Second Reconstruction, 28c Gay Men and Lesbians Organize, Latino Struggles for Justice, Native American Protest, 28d The New Wave of Feminism, 28e Expanding Social Justice, and Extending the Welfare State and Regulating the Economy. Then Complete the 28b Map Activity 2 for Chapter 28 and Choose 1 of the Documents from Reading the American Past, Chapter 28 to read and submit responses to the questions.
5. Chapter 31 in Launch Pad – Read 31a Going to War in Central American and the Persian Gulf, The Cold War Ends, 31b Clinton’s Reforms, The Booming Economy of the 1990s, 31d President George W. Bush: Conservatism at Home and Radical Initiatives Abroad, The Domestic Policies of a “Compassionate Conservative”, The Globalization of Terrorism, 31e The Obama Presidency: Reform and Backlash. Then complete the 31a Map Activity 1 for Chapter 31 and Choose 1 of the Documents from Reading the American Past, Chapter 31 to read and submit responses to the questions.
C. Exams: 300 Points – due on Friday by NOON on the week that the exams are
assigned. The Final exam is due by 11:00 PM on Wednesday of Finals Week. These exams will consist of Multiple Choice, Short Answer, and Fill in the Blank questions regarding concepts, ideologies, and themes in American History. Each exam given has a due date – FRIDAY AT NOON! NO Makeup exams will be given. You have the due date and plenty of notice for study. I suggest that you do not wait until the very last day to complete the exam. Each exam is unlimited time frame but you can only enter once so you must complete it in the first log in – do not time yourself out because it will not allow you back in. This will be cause for non-completion of the exam and I will grade what you have completed.
D. Critical Responses: 200 Points – due on Friday at NOON on the week that the responses are assigned. All students must post to the discussion site by Friday at noon of each response week one
thoughtful, substantive, critical response to a particular text or group of texts from the
respective week's reading selections. Consider this a formal response to the week's
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selected reading, and it is substantively different than your relatively brief responses to
my discussion topics. Responses should be about 750-1,000 words (about 3-4 double-
spaced pages). For one critical response you may opt to analyze one of the stories or
several within a collection, focusing on shared themes, images, and other elements.
Students will write a total of two (2) critical responses and will submit them before noon
on Friday for a given week. Late work will not be accepted.
E. Article Analysis: 200 Points – due on Wednesday at 11:00 pm on the week that the
analysis is assigned. I will select articles for each class member to review. The student will read the article
and write a 400 word analysis giving a brief summary of the thesis/argument of the
article. Then each student will analyze the evidence given and state whether the author
argued their thesis/argument well by using selected evidence from the article. The final
wrap-up/conclusion will consist of the student’s reaction to the article (without degrading
the author of the article). This will be your reaction to the information given not whether
the author wrote well, etc. There will be a signup online sheet, each student will respond
to which article they would like to read. This signup sheet will be posted on Week 4. It
will be first come first serve so whoever posts first will receive the article they requested
and so forth. Since the process of selecting the articles will go by the time stamp online,
if any requests are the same the person with the earliest time stamp will receive it. Late
work will not be accepted.
Grading PARTICIPATION: 200 Points 3 EXAMS: 300 Points CRITICAL RESPONSES: 200 Points ARTICLE ANALYSIS: 200 Points ONLINE ACTIVITIES: 100 Points TOTAL: 1000 PTS The grading scale used is as follows: 900 – 1000 = A 800 – 899 = B 700– 799 = C 600 – 699 = D 599 & below = F
All assignments must be completed and turned in to pass this course. Failure to
complete and turn in ALL assignments will result in a deduction of letter grade for the course.
TECHNOLOGY REQUIREMENTS
Since this is an online class, each student is responsible for understanding out eCollege works, as well as making sure their computers are compatible with Texas A&M University – Commerce software. If you have a Mac, make sure you have a converter to
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make your documents upload correctly in eCollege, etc. Also, you will need to check your university email daily as this will be the way for communication in this class. eCollege: This course is an online course through eCollege, the Learning Management System used by Texas A&M University-Commerce. To access eCollege you will need an internet connection, preferably high speed, and your CWID and password. If you do not know your CWID or have forgotten your password, please contact Technology Services at 903-468-6000 or [email protected]. To get started with the course, go to: https://leo.tamucommerce.edu/login.aspx. eCollege will be used to send you announcements and reminders, to post grades, and to provide access to course materials (except required readings) such as handouts and assignments. In addition, eCollege will be the primary means for me to communicate with you outside the classroom. SUPPORT SERVICES: eCollege Technical Concerns: Please contact the eCollege HelpDesk, available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. by sending an email directly to
[email protected]. You may also reach the HelpDesk by calling (toll-free) 1-866-656-5511. Be sure that you can access the email account the university has on record for you.
ACCESS AND NAVIGATION
This course is web-enhanced through eCollege, the Learning Management System used by
Texas A&M University-Commerce. eCollege will be used to send you announcements and reminders, and to provide access to course materials such as handouts and assignments. Combined with your university email address, eCollege will be a key means for course communication. THE SET UP AND USE OF eCollege IS A COURSE REQUIREMENT.
To get started with the course, go to: https://leo.tamu-commerce.edu/login.aspx You will need your CWID and password to log in to the course. If you do not know your
CWID or have forgotten your password, please contact Technology Services at 903 468-6000 or [email protected].
COMMUNICATION AND SUPPORT
Interaction with Instructor Statement: The best way to reach me is by email at
COURSE AND UNIVERSITY PROCEDURES/POLICIES
There is no reason for plagiarism in this class. Each student needs to know that if caught plagiarizing there are severe consequences in the class (such as result of and F for the course) and through the university. Plagiarism and Academic Honesty: Plagiarism: “1. The action or practice of plagiarizing; the wrongful publication or purloining, and publication as one’s own of the ideas, or expression of the ideas (literary, artistic, musical, mechanical, etc.) of another.” Oxford English Dictionary. Students should know that plagiarism occurs any time another’s ideas or words are
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used without attribution. Direct quotations must be cited and set off from other text by quotation marks (“”); paraphrasing of another’s ideas must also be cited. Copying from other students is also plagiarism. Any offense wholly or partially touching the above definition constitutes plagiarism for the purposes of this policy. (See Texas A&M-Commerce Code of Student Conduct 5.b [1,2,3]).
Writing Center: By working with students one-on-one or in small groups, tutors can help writers analyze the rhetorical demands of the writing task, generate and focus ideas at the prewriting stage, ensure they are addressing the writing assignment directly and effectively, elaborate and rework a rough draft after hearing the writer read the draft aloud, discover their strengths and weaknesses in a particular rhetorical context, strengthen arguments, spot weak rhetorical choices and make more effective choices, and address formatting or other surface-level concerns. The Writing Center in Hall of Languages 103 is open Monday-Thursday, 9am-4pm, Thursday 9am-1pm. Additional hours are available in the evening and on weekends at Gee Library: Sunday-Thursday 6pm-9pm. Also the Writing Center offers the Online Writing Lab, which can be accessed by clicking the Online Writing Lab menu item to the left.
University Specific Procedures: ADA Statement
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is a federal anti-discrimination statute that provides comprehensive civil rights protection for persons with disabilities. Among other things, this legislation requires that all students with disabilities be guaranteed a learning environment that provides for reasonable accommodation of their disabilities. If you have a disability requiring an accommodation, please contact:
Office of Student Disability Resources and Services Texas A&M University-Commerce
Gee Library 132 Phone (903) 886-5150 or (903) 886-5835
Fax (903) 468-8148 [email protected]
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COURSE OUTLINE / CALENDAR
This schedule will guide you through the semester and indicates when your assignments are due. It should be referred to often. We will do our best to adhere to this schedule, but we reserve the right to make adjustments to it during the course of the semester as such circumstances arise.
WEEK ASSIGNMENT
WEEK 1 8/25 - 8/30
Welcome and Introductions!
Chapter 16 - Reconstruction 1863-1877 (Quick Review Online) & Chapter 17 - The
Contested West 1865-1900
WEEK 2 8/31 - 9/6
Chapter 18 - Business and Politics in the Gilded Age 1865-1900
ONLINE ACTIVITIES DUE FRIDAY 9/5/14 BY NOON!
WEEK 3 9/7 - 9/13
Chapter 19 - The City and Its Workers 1870-1900 & Chapter 20 - Dissent, Depression,
and War 1890-1900
CRITICAL RESPONSE CRITICAL RESPONSE DUE BY FRIDAY 9/12/14 BY NOON!
WEEK 4 9/14 - 9/20
Chapter 21 - Progressivism from the Grass Roots to the White House 1890-1916
WEEK 5 9/21 - 9/27
EXAM 1 EXAM 1 - CHAPTERS 17-21 - DUE BY FRIDAY 9/26/14 BY NOON!
Chapter 22 - World War I: The Progressive Crusade at Home and Abroad 1914-1920
WEEK 6 9/28 - 10/4
Chapter 23 - From New Era to Great Depression 1920-1932
ONLINE ACTIVITIES DUE FRIDAY 10/3/14 BY NOON!
WEEK 7 10/5 - 10/11
Chapter 24 - The New Deal Experiment 1932-1939
WEEK 8 10/12 - 10/18
Chapter 25 - The United States and the Second World War 1939-1945
CRITICAL RESPONSE CRITICAL RESPONSE DUE BY FRIDAY 10/17/14 BY NOON!
WEEK 9 10/19 - 10/25
Chapter 26 - Cold War Politics in The Truman Years 1945-1953
ONLINE ACTIVITIES DUE BY FRIDAY 10/24/14 BY NOON!
WEEK 10 10/26 - 11/1
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EXAM 2 EXAM 2 - CHAPTERS 22-26 - DUE BY FRIDAY 10/31/14 BY NOON!
Chapter 27 - The Politics and Culture of Abundance 1952-1960
WEEK 11 11/2 - 11/8
Chapter 28 - Reform, Rebellion, and Reaction 1960-1974
ONLINE ACTIVITIES DUE BY FRIDAY 11/7/14 BY NOON!
WEEK 12 11/9 - 11/15
Chapter 29 - Vietnam and the End of the Cold War Consensus 1961-1975
WEEK 13 11/16 - 11/22
Chapter 30 American Moves to the Right 1969-1989
WEEK 14 11/23 - 11/29
Chapter 31 - The Promises and Challenges of Globalization since 1989
ONLINE ACTIVITIES DUE BY FRIDAY 11/28/14 BY NOON!
WEEK 15 11/30 - 12/6
ARTICLE ANALYSIS ARTICLE ANALYSIS DUE ON WEDNESDAY 12/3/14 BY 11:00 PM
FINALS WEEK 16 FINAL EXAM - OVER CHAPTERS 27-31 - DUE BY WEDNESDAY 12/10/14 BY 11:00 PM!