NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS COLLEGE
COURSE SYLLABUS
COURSE AND INSTRUCTOR INFORMATION
Course title: United States History I
Course prefix, number, and section number: HIST 1301 0511
Semester/Year of course: Summer I 2023
Semester start and end dates: June 5th – July 6th
Modality (Face to face/Synchronous or Asynchronous online/Hybrid): Face-to-Face
Class meeting location, days, and times: Flower Mound R206 M-TH 12:00-2:20
Lab meeting location, days, and times:
Semester credit hours: 3
Course description: A survey of the social, political, economic, cultural, and intellectual history of the United States from the pre-Columbian era to the Civil War/Reconstruction period. United States History I includes the study of pre-Columbian, colonial, revolutionary, early national, slavery and sectionalism, and the Civil War/Reconstruction eras. Themes that may be addressed in United States History I include: American settlement and diversity, American culture, religion, civil and human rights, technological change, economic change, immigration and migration, and creation of the federal government.
Course prerequisites: None
Required course materials: Brinkley, Alan. The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People. 10th edition. 2022. McGraw-Hill. ISBN 978-1264853830
The web-based material is unique to NCTC. You must purchase it from the NCTC bookstore or directly through your Canvas course.
Name of instructor: Kevin Pyle
Office location: Flower Mound R107
Telephone number: 940 668-3350
E-mail address: All correspondences through Canvas email
Office hours for students: Tues-11:00-11:50 @ Flower Mound, Wed-7:00-8:00 virtual
SYLLABUS CHANGE DISCLAIMER
The faculty member reserves the right to make changes to this published syllabus if it is in the best interest of the educational development of this class. Any such changes will be announced as soon as possible in person and/or writing.
SUMMARY OF COURSE ASSIGNMENTS
List of graded assignments:
Discussions = 6
Quizzes = 3
Research paper = 1
Final grade scale:
A = 90-100 B = 80-89 C = 70-79 D = 60-69 F = 0-59
Late work policy: The due dates for all assignments as well as Research Paper and Exams are set. There will be no late assignments accepted. If there is an issue with an Exam then you must notify me in advance to determine whether or not any alternative measures can be taken.
SEE CANVAS FOR THE COMPLETE COURSE CALENDAR, OUTLINE, DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF GRADED WORK, AND OTHER RELATED MATERIAL.
COURSE POLICIES
Academic Integrity Policy:
Specific Conduct Regulations/Restrictions as found in NCTC Catalog 2017-18, page 266-267
Violations of the Student Code of Conduct shall include aiding, abetting, conspiring, soliciting, inciting of, or attempting to commit the following:
1. Academic Dishonesty:
a. Cheating:
(1) Copying from or reviewing another student’s examination prior to or during the examination.
(2) Copying from another student’s paper, laboratory report, presentation, computer program, or other assignment.
(3) Using or possessing unauthorized notes, books, test materials, electronic devices, or other aids in any academic exercise or activity.
(4) Submitting the same paper, report, or other assignment for more than one course without the expressed permission of the faculty member.
(5) Collaborating with or seeking aid from another student during a test without permission from the test administrator.
(6) Knowingly using, buying, selling, stealing, or soliciting, in whole or in part, the contents of a paper, another assignment, or test, whether it has been administered or not.
(7) The unauthorized transporting or removal, in whole or in part, of the contents of a test, whether it has been administered or not.
(8) Substituting for another student, or permitting another student to substitute for one’s self, to take a test.
(9) Bribing another person to obtain a test or information about a test, whether it has been administered or not.
b. Plagiarism:
(1) Appropriating, buying, receiving as a gift, or obtaining by any means another’s work and the unacknowledged submission or incorporation of it into one’s own written work.
(2) Copying or using the ideas, writings, paraphrases, data, reports, graphic designs, or computer codes of published or unpublished work of another person without appropriate citation or acknowledgments.
(3) Reproducing or using the ideas, materials, works, paraphrases, data, reports, graphic designs, or computer codes prepared by another person or agency without authorization, permission or acknowledgment.
c. Collusion: Unauthorized collaboration with another person in preparing written work for fulfillment of course requirements including a presentation, laboratory report, quiz, homework, take-home examination, project, or other work expected to be completed as an individual or independently.
d. Academic Falsification:
(1) Providing false, altered, or fabricated information or documentation in the context of an academic assignment, examination, or obligation, such as creating a false source for an assignment or citing a source one did not use.
(2) Altering grades on an assignment, examination, laboratory report, quiz, or other academic work and submitting such to a faculty member or College District employee.
(3) Using false or altered information, data, or identification in the context of an academic obligation.
e. Intellectual Property Dishonesty:
(1) Altering, removing, or defacing College District library or educational materials.
(2) Selling, electronically posting, publishing, or distributing course lecture notes, handouts, recordings, or other materials or information from the faculty member of the course without the expressed permission of the faculty member.
(3) Removing or intentionally damaging the academic property of a faculty member or another student, including projects, books, papers, notes, laboratory assignments, clinical forms, or electronic hardware or software.
(4) Obtaining or using the password of a faculty member or another student to access course hardware or software.
(5) Taking credit on a group assignment when one did not contribute toward completion of the assignment.
(6) Violating the ethical standards of practices in professional programs (i.e., health sciences, nursing, emergency medical assistance, and the like).
f. Academic Dishonesty Facilitation: Assisting any person in the commission of academic misconduct, including but not limited to:
(1) Aiding, abetting, or attempting to commit an academic misconduct violation.
(2) Allowing another student to copy or use one’s answers during an examination or in the completion of an assignment.
(3) Taking, completing, or attempting to take an examination or complete assignment for another student.
(4) Listing another student on a group assignment when the student did not contribute in any manner toward completion of the assignment.
Attendance Policy: Attendance is mandatory. 4 or more unexcused absence will result in a 10% drop in your final grade
Withdrawal Policy
A student may withdraw from a course on or after the official date of record. It is the student’s responsibility to initiate and complete a Withdrawal Request Form.
Last day to withdraw from the course with a “W” is: June 27th 2023
Student Learning Outcomes:
At the successful completion of this course the student will be able to:
Create an argument through the use of historical evidence.
Analyze and interpret primary and secondary sources.
Analyze the effects of historical, social, political, economic, cultural, and global forces on this period of United States history.
Core Objectives:
Critical Thinking
Communication
Personal Responsibility
Social Responsibility
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