HIST 1111 & HIST 1112 - World History (OER)

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

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.

For questions about this material, please contact:

• Dr. Jayme Akers Feagin
  jfeagin@highlands.edu 
   
• Dr. Bronson Long
  blong@highlands.edu