Course Syllabus

NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS COLLEGE

COURSE SYLLABUS

COURSE AND INSTRUCTOR INFORMATION

Course title: United States History I

Course prefix, number, and section number: HIST 1301 0840

Semester/Year of course: Fall 2024

Semester start and end dates: January 21, 2025 and end March 7, 2025

Modality: Face to face

Class meeting location: 

M, T, W, Th,

 8:20AM---9:50AM

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

Name of instructor: Professor Dawne Peters-Zlinsky

Office location: C202

Telephone number: 

E-mail address:  dpeters-zlinsky@nctc.edu

Office hours for students: 

Monday – Friday 7:50-8:15 and by appointment 

SYLLABUS CHANGE DISCLAIMER

Changes may be made to this syllabus and the timing (due date) and or number assignments at the discretion of the instructor in an effort to best support the students.  

SUMMARY OF COURSE ASSIGNMENTS

 List of graded assignments: GRADING CRITERIA

Grading Scale: 100-90=A        89-80=B     79-70=C      69-60=D          59 and below=F

**Grading is done in NCTC Canvas   Skyward will not be used for dual credit.** 

**There are no retakes or makeups on the Midterm or the Final.**

***Assignments more than three (3) days late without cause will be an automatic Zero (0)***

COURSE SUBJECT OUTLINE (Major Assignments, Due Dates, and Grading Criteria) All dates are subject to be changed as needed to improve the flow of the educational experience.

Week 1: 

Chapter 1: The Collision of Cultures

Week 2: 

Chapter 2: Transplantations and Borderlands

Chapter 3: Society and Culture in Provincial America

 Week 3: 

Chapter 4: The Empire in Transition 

Chapter 5: The American Revolution

Chapter 6: The Constitution and the New Republic

Week 4: 

Chapter 7: Jeffersonian Era

Chapter 8: Expansion and Division in the Early Republic

Midterm TBD

Week 5: 

Chapter 9: Jacksonian America

Chapter 10: America’s Economic Revolution

Week 6: 

Chapter 11: Cotton. Slavery, and the Old South

Chapter 12: Antebellum Culture and Reform

Research Paper Due

Week 7: The Impeding Crisis/Civil War

Chapter 13: The Impeding Crisis

Final Exam:  March 7th

If your grade is a 75% or below at any time in the semester, you WILL be required to attend tutoring.

COURSE POLICIES

Classroom Guidelines and Procedures:

• Be respectful by understanding the viewpoints of others.  Discussion will be a large part of the learning environment and there should be no disruptions (rude or inappropriate comments, foul language, or racial slurs) between the teacher’s ability to teach and the students’ ability to learn. Students should talk only when appropriate and should stay seated unless instruction states otherwise. 

• Class will begin at the bell.  It is your responsibility to be ready at the start of class.  Delaying class not only effects your ability to learn, it effects the ability of your classmates. 
• Tests, quizzes will be paper only.  
• Homework and reading is a requirement not a suggestion and will only add to your ability to succeed 
• Cell phones and earbuds/headphones are not allowed during instructional period.  If necessary will be removed to phone station during duration of lesson. 

Tips to Success.

• This will be a fast-moving course.  Stay on top of your assignments.
• If you do not understand an assignment or have a question about a task, ask the question.  The only ‘dumb questions’ is the one not asked.
• Tutoring is available and will help in your success.  
• Have a “Note Buddy”. If you are absent, it is your responsibility to have the notes from the class.