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HSTY2712: American History from Lincoln to Trump
2020 unit information
This unit examines the United States from 1865 to the present. We will consider changes and continuities by exploring topics such as: race relations, urbanisation, industrialisation, economic crises, immigration and domestic migration, social reform movements, consumer culture, electoral politics, gender relations, foreign policy, and mass incarceration.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
History
| Code | HSTY2712 |
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| Academic unit | History |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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12 credit units at 1000 level in the History major |
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Corequisites:
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None |
| Prohibitions:
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HSTY1076 |
| Assumed knowledge:
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None |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. Demonstrate a nuanced understanding of the variety of cultures and contestations of a variety of forms of power in the U.S. since the Civil War
- LO2. Demonstrate an understanding of the variety of approaches to interpreting the US past and the deployment of a variety of forms of power since 1865 including political, economic, social, cultural, intellectual, biographical, and transnational history
- LO3. Critically analyse and interpret primary evidence in the broader, regional, national and global context of U.S. history and in relation to bodies of secondary literature
- LO4. Identify a complex historical problem centered around the major contingent moments of post-Civil War U.S. history (for instance, a multicausal change or counterintuitive continuity) and devise a research strategy to solve it.
- LO5. Demonstrate capacity to integrate non-elite perspectives on the past and understand how axes of inequality have been historically constructed
- LO6. Apply historical perspectives and skills (such as the ability to relate asymmetrical bodies of evidence, and an understanding of contingency and the timeframes of different processes) in relationship inter- and multidisciplinary contexts and knowledge production.
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