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HIST 2154: Minorities in US History

In this LibGuide, you will find instructional resources designed to facilitate the use of primary sources and open educational resources in the teaching of HIST 1111 (World History to 1500) and HIST 1112 (World History since 1500). This compilation of existing and new material was originally funded by an Affordable Learning Georgia textbook transformation grant awarded in 2017 and expanded under continuous improvement grants in 2020 and 2023.

The primary teaching material (video lectures, transcripts, key terms, guided reading/viewing questions can be found at the following website:

World Civilizations Video Textbook

This site will house other instructional material:

  • Central (Thematic) Organizing Questions -  The revision will include new central questions for each week or module of materials that provide cohesive themes and overarching questions to guide the general direction of both learning and instruction. 
     
  • Teaching & Learning Activities -  we plan to develop a number of assignments and activities based on primary historical documents and short secondary sources such as academic journal articles. These assignments and activities include short answer document-based questions, group discussion questions and think, pair, share activities for face-to-face classes, discussion questions for online classes, and short writing assignments. These materials will be organized into online packets that are ready-made for eight-week classes.
     
  • Primary Source Packets - We will create primary source packets to accompany the teaching and learning activities described above.
     
  • New Test Bank - Revision & expansion of the multiple-choice questions currently used in the quizzes and exams of our four main survey classes. Our revision efforts along these lines will strive to test higher-order thinking instead of merely testing students’ abilities to recall basic historical facts. We will revise existing questions and write new multiple-choice questions such that we have questions that fit into categories such as Chronology, Historical Thinking, Data Analysis, and Source Application. This will create a broad pool of higher-quality questions that will sharpen the critical thinking skills and historical knowledge of our students and serve instructors of our survey courses well for years to come. There will be fewer "Google-able" questions based on rote memorization. 

Course Objectives

The purpose of this course is to allow students to:

  1. Explore the history of minorities in U.S. History over time within a loosely guided framework from European colonization to contemporary questions and issues, with a focus on the voices of Native American Indians, African Americans, Latinx Americans, Asian Americans, and Women.
     
  2. Research, analyze, and interpret a variety of primary and secondary sources across a variety of online resources to uncover and understand these minority voices while also gaining an appreciation for the complexities of historical inquiry and the profession of historians.
     
  3. Create a final project from semester work (and further research and analysis) that will not only showcase historical thinking skills and lessons learned
     
  4. Engage in open pedagogy to allow students to take ownership of their learning

Student Learning Outcomes

After completing this course, students will be able to:

Understand the complex nature of the historical record:

  • Distinguish between primary and secondary materials and decide when to use each.
  • Identify key events that define change over time in a particular place or region, and identify how change occurs over time.
  • Recognize a range of viewpoints in historical narratives.

Engage in historical inquiry, research, and analysis:

  • Understand the dynamics of change over time.
  • Explore the complexity of the human experience across time and space.
  •  Distinguish between historical facts and historical interpretations.

Generate significant, open-ended questions about the past and devise research strategies to answer them:

  • Seek a variety of sources that provide evidence to support an argument about the past.
  • Develop a methodological practice of gathering, sifting, analyzing, ordering, synthesizing, and interpreting evidence.
  • Evaluate a variety of historical sources for their credibility, position, significance, and perspective.

Contact Information

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Course Organization

 

  • Module 1: What is World History?
  • Module 2: Colliding Worlds
  • Module 3: Revolutions & their Consequences
  • Module 4: Imperialism & Western Hegemony
  • Module 5: The Bloody 20th Century
  • Module 6: A Bi-Polar World
  • Module 7: New Global Systems

Course Resources in this LibGuide

Resources for each chapter, which can be found in this LibGuide, include the following:

  • Skills-based student learning outcomes
  • Course Content Outcomes
  • Content
    • Primary Source Sets, arranged chronologically and by topic
    • OER videos & readings to designed to provide historical context for the primary sources
    • Primary Source Activities
    • Sample Lesson Plans for Online & Face-to-Face Use of the Material
  • Student Self Assessments & Study Material
    • Content Knowledge Self Assessments (Pre/Post)
    • Study Guide
  • Options for Graded Assessment
    • Discussion Prompts
    • Summative Assessment Options

Licensing Statement

All resources licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.

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