Summer 2005 Flex Course   

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History 201 is the first of a two-part survey of US History. The course provides the beginning student with an understanding of the history of the United States from pre-colonial times to the end of the Civil War.  We will look at the conquest of the Americas, the Colonial Period, Revolution, the early Republic, the rise of Sectionalism, Slavery, Reform movements and the Civil War.

The class embraces a more tutorial approach to instruction, reducing the emphasis on lectures, rote memorization, and restatement of facts and dates. Instead the class engages students in a  reciprocal process of learning.

THE HISTORY OF EARLY AMERICA is a study of cultural adaptations and global confrontations. Native versus imperialist, rich versus poor, city versus farm, passion versus reason, change versus tradition—-through the window of the past we see these enduring divisions, the conflicts that shape our lives today.  

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