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NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS COLLEGE
COURSE SYLLABUS
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“History is not the exact recitation of truth, it is a story shaped and sculpted by those in control.” Ted Koppel
“History isn't really about the past - settling old scores. It's about defining the present and who we are.” Ken Burn
“We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.” C. K. Chesterton
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Course Title:
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U.S. History from 1865
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Course Prefix & Number:
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HIST1302
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Section Number:
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0602
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Semester/Year:
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Fall/2019
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Semester Credit Hours:
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3
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Lecture Hours:
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3
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Lab Hours:
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0
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Course Description (NCTC Catalog):
A survey of the social, political, economic, cultural, and intellectual history of the United States from the Civil War/Reconstruction era to the present. United States History II examines industrialization, immigration, world wars, the Great Depression, Cold War and post-Cold War eras. Themes that may be addressed in United States History II include: American culture, religion, civil and human rights, technological change, economic change, immigration and migration, urbanization and suburbanization, the expansion of the federal government, and the study of U.S. foreign Policy.
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Course Prerequisite(s): None
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Required Course Materials:
Brinkley, Alan. The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People 9th edition.
McGraw-Hill. 2016 ISBN 978-1259969118
The Web-based material is unique to NCTC. You must purchase it from the NCTC bookstore or directly through Canvas, to the McGraw-Hill publishing Connect website.
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INSTRUCTOR INFORMATION
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Name of Instructor:
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Kevin Pyle
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Campus/Office Location:
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FSB Exchange
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Telephone Number:
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940 668-3350
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E-mail Address:
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All correspondences through Canvas
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OFFICE HOURS
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Monday
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Tuesday
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Wednesday
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Thursday
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Friday
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11:00-12:20
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11:00-12:20
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STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES (From Academic Course Guide Manual/Workforce Education Course Manual/NCTC Catalog
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At the successful completion of this course the student will be able to:
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Create an argument through the use of historical evidence.
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Analyze and interpret primary and secondary sources.
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Analyze the effects of historical, social, political, economic, cultural, and global forces on this period of the United States History.
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GRADING CRITERIA
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# of Graded Course Elements
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Graded Course Elements
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Percentage or Point Values
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10
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Reading Discussions/Primary Sources
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100 (x10=1000)
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1
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Exams
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100)
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1
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Research Paper
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200
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1
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Final
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100
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POINT RUBRIC: 1500 TOTAL POSSIBLE POINTS
A = 1400-1260 B = 1259-1119 C = 1118-978 D = 977-837 F = 836-0
COURSE SUBJECT OUTLINE: Please refer to the Assignments tab in Canvas under this course
Make-up Policy
The Course Calendar gives you a comprehensive look at your assignment dates, so be sure to turn in your work in on time.
Since there is ample time allotted for the completion of all your assignments and exams, there will be no makeups on Reading Discussions, Exams, Research Paper, or Primary Source Activities.
The turnaround time for grades is as follows:
Primary Source Activities, Exams and will be graded within 1 hour to 2 days after the due date.
Since I spend a great deal of time giving feedback on papers, they will be graded within three weeks.
READING DISCUSSION
Participation in Discussion Forums is a very important part of the learning process in this course. You will be evaluated on the QUALITY of your contributions and insights. Quality comments possess one or more of the following properties:
Analyzes the material presented during the week (Posts must include references to the textbook, assigned readings, and the materials given. You must show a mastery of the material.);
Offers a different and unique, but relevant, perspective;
Contributes to moving the discussion and analysis forward;
Builds on other comments;
Transcends the “I feel” syndrome. That is, it includes some evidence or argumentation. In
other words, the comment demonstrates some reflective thinking.
The reply posts should not be yes or no kinds of answers. You are expected to analyze your fellow classmates’ responses and add relevant information. You may also pose questions to your colleagues.
Original posts must be a minimum of 150 words. Reply posts must be a minimum of 50 words.
Three points will be deducted for every late original post. Late reply posts will not be accepted.
"Netiquette"
Distance conveys a degree of anonymity, and as a result, many people feel less inhibited in online situations than in their everyday lives. This lessening of inhibitions sometimes leads people to drop their normal standards of decorum when communicating online. Become familiar with the following guidelines regarding both online discussions and email messages.
· Use appropriate language. Use of “chat” or “texting” or “instant messaging” jargon is not acceptable for class discussions.
· Read existing follow-up postings and don’t repeat what has already been said.
· Inappropriate and/or offensive language, especially comments that might be construed as racist or sexist, are not appropriate and will be dealt with on an individual basis.
· Be careful with humor and sarcasm. One person’s humorous comment can be another person’s degrading remark.
· Do not use all caps in an online environment. Using all caps is considered SHOUTING.
· Use proper spelling, capitalization, grammar, and punctuation. Utilize the Spell Check feature.
· Remember that there are other human beings reading your postings, so treat everyone with respect. Don’t post anything you wouldn’t be willing to communicate face to face.
STYLE-SHEET FOR PAPERS
RESEARCH PROJECT:
It is important to adhere strictly to the parameters outlined.
The research paper will strictly adhere to the following parameters;
- 1- inch margins top & bottom, left & right and double-spaced
- 12 pt. font; Times New Roman or Arial only
- A separate Title page that contains your course number, title of your topic, name, and date you turn it in. All this will be centered, top to bottom, left to right on the page
- No Headers or Footers
- A separate page containing your references (MLA citation required).
- Length of text to be 500 words exactly!
- The entire paper, Title page/Text/Reference page is one document!
- All papers to be in MSWord format only!!!
DUE DATE: The paper is due on and no later than 11:30, November 17th 2019. There will be a Veracite drop box on Canvas for your paper. No late papers will be accepted!
I. The Text
Good grammar usage is expected of all students. Those new to writing papers should pay special attention to the following.
1) Spelling-Spelling should follow the generally accepted conventions. If you do not have one, buy a good dictionary. Also, use spell-check on your computer.
2) Correct use of tenses-In general you should refer to actions people did in the past in the past tense (Thucydides wrote The Peloponnesian War.). Refer to quotations from authors in the present tense, even if the author is a historical person (Thucydides believes the Peloponnesian War was more important and interesting than any war that had gone before it.)
3) Uses of apostrophes-Apostrophes are not used in the plurals of words (telephones not telephone’s). Apostrophes are used to indicate possession of one thing by another thing (the man’s hat). If the word that possesses is plural, the apostrophe goes after the “s” (the Students’ Association).
4) Its and It’s-Its indicates possession, like his or her (the book’s cover=its cover). It’s is a contraction of the words it and is.
5) Capitalization-Capitalize the first word in a sentence, proper nouns, words like
King (only when referring to a particular person, not the office in general), and words in titles (except conjunctions, propositions, or articles).
6) Use of first person pronouns-When writing formal papers do not use the words “I” or “me”. A term paper is not meant to sound like a letter to a friend.
7) Words to avoid-Try to avoid words like incredible, unbelievable, always, never, people, and they.
8) Passive construction-It is bad style to use passive construction. Instead of “The King was lynched” one should write, “The Parisian mob lynched the King.” Instead of “The White House had been burned down” one should write, “The British burned down the White House.”
9) Contractions- Do not use contractions in formal papers. Always spell out the words.
II. Citations and Notes
You must indicate from where you got information used in your paper, not just when you quote directly, but also when you get ideas or arguments from a source. It is better to cite too much than not enough. The way to cite material is in parenthetical notes.
Avoid over use of quotations. Quotations should only be used when an author makes a particularly unique discovery or uses an unusual turn of phrase. It is YOUR words and thoughts that are required and on which you will be graded.
Single author- (last name page number)
Two authors- (last name of both authors page number)
Two sources by same author or with same last name-(last name abbreviation of title page number)
No author-(short title page number)
Examples:
(Cobban 17)
(Harrison, Sullivan, and Sherman 257)
(Limb “Alliance” 23) and (Limb "Imperialism" 47)
(“Roman Military” 7)
III. Bibliography
For a college paper your bibliography should list all the resources you consulted in writing your paper. In a bibliography, books and articles are listed alphabetically in order of the author’s last name. Books without authors and websites are listed alphabetically by the title of the book or the name of the site, excluding the articles (like “the” or “an”).
Example:
Cobban, Alfred. A History of Modern France, Volume 1: 1715-1799. 3rd ed. Baltimore:
Pelican, 1963.
Harrison, John B., Richard E. Sullivan, and Dennis Sherman. A Short History of Western
Civilization, Volume II since 1600. 7th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1990.
Limb, Peter. "Alliance Strengthened or Diminished?: Relationships between Labour &
African Nationalist/Liberation Movements in Southern Africa,” May 2007
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Monter, William. “The Historiography of European Witchcraft.” Journal of
Interdisciplinary History 9 (1978): 435-51.
The following advice appeared in the school newspaper at Fordham University. Needless to say it is meant to be humorous, but it makes some good points.
HOW TO WRITE GOOD PAPERS
1. Avoid alliteration. Always.
2. Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.
3. Avoid clichés like the plague. They’re old hat.
4. Employ the vernacular.
5. Avoid ampersands & abbreviations, etc.
6. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
7. It is wrong to ever split an infinitive.
8. Don’t use contractions.
9. Foreign words or phrases are not apropos.
10. One should never generalize.
11. Eliminate quotations. As Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.”
12. Do not be redundant; in other words, do not use more words than are necessary, it’s highly unnecessary.
13. Profanity sucks.
14. Be more or less specific.
15. Understatement is always best. Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.
Regular and punctual attendance is expected of all students in all classes for which they have registered. All absences are considered to be unauthorized unless the student is absent due to illness or emergencies as determined by the instructor. It is the student responsibility to provide documentation as to the emergency for approval and judgement by the faculty member. Approved college sponsored activities are the only absences for which a student should not be held liable and only when provided by a college official ahead of the absence. Valid reasons for absence, however, do not relieve the student of the responsibility for making up required work. Students will not be allowed to make up an examination missed due to absence unless they have reasons acceptable to the instructor. A student who is compelled to be absent when a test is given should petition the instructor, in advance if possible, for permission to postpone the exam. Student will be dropped from a class by the Registrar upon recommendation of the instructor who feels the student has been justifiably absent or tardy a sufficient number of times to preclude meeting the course’s objectives. Persistent, unjustified absences from classes or laboratories will be considered sufficient cause for College officials to drop a student from the rolls of the College. From Board Policy FC (LOCAL)
Additional Instructor-specific Absence Policy:
2 unexcused absences will result in a grade drop of 200 points. 3 unexcused absences will result in a drop of 300 points. 4 or more unexcused absences will result in failure of this class. Perfect attendance will result in an addition of 100 points.
Last day to withdraw from a course with a “W” is ___November 25th 2019____________.
DISABILITY SERVICES (Office for Students with Disabilities)
The Office for Students with Disabilities (OSD) provides support services for students with disabilities, students enrolled in technical areas of study, and students who are classified as special populations (i.e. single parents).
Support services for students with disabilities might include appropriate and reasonable accommodations, or they may be in the form of personal counseling, academic counseling, career counseling, etc. Furthermore, OSD Counselors work with students to encourage self-advocacy and promote empowerment. The Counselors also provides resource information, disability-related information, and adaptive technology for students who qualify.
For support, please contact the counselors at (940) 498-6207 or (940) 668-4321. Alternatively, students may stop by Room 170 in Corinth or Room 110 in Gainesville.
CORE CURRICULUM FOUNDATIONAL COMPONENT AREA (For classes in the Core)_______