HIST 100 - Historical Issues and Contemporary Society

Credits: 4

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Description
Designed to create, particularly for the non-major, an awareness of the ideas, individuals, and social forces that have shaped history. Sources include art, biography, drama, fiction, and film. (Satisfies the United States and Nevada Constitutions Requirement for 4 credits.)

Student Learning Outcomes

Explain key historical concepts across the span of American history through descriptive, summative, and analytical forms of writing.
Integrate primary and secondary source materials into research and other coursework related to US history, culture, and social life through historical methods.
Draw connections across time and between historical concepts to produce sound historical conclusions in U.S. history.
Apply constitutional principles while engaged in historical analysis of key events in U.S. history from the early national period to the present day.

Prerequisite: None
Corequisite: None

Graded: Letter Grade