- Code
- ELL 312
- Name
- American History and Culture
- Semester
- 6
- Lecture hours
- 4.00
- Seminar hours
- 0.00
- Laborator hours
- 0.00
- Credits
- 4.00
- ECTS
- 5.00
- Description
-
This subject informs the students about the most important periods of the history of the USA as well as their impact in the development of culture.
- Objectives
-
Provide the students with essential knowledge on the most important moments of the history of the United States of America – Enable the informing of the students regarding data from the pre European period of the history of the North American continent, to the present days. Special attention will be given to the emergence of colonial societies and launching the New Republic.
- Java
- Tema
- 1
- Native Peoples of America, to 1500
- 2
- The Emergence of Colonial Societies, 1625–1700
- 3
- The Bonds of Empire, 1660–1750
- 4
- Securing Independence, Defining Nationhood, 1776–1788
- 5
- Launching the New Republic,1788–1800
- 6
- The Transformation of American Society, 1815–1840
- 7
- Technology, Culture, and Everyday Life, 1840–1860
- 8
- Midterm exam
- 9
- Immigration, Expansion, and Sectional Conflict, 1840–1848
- 10
- The Transformation of the Trans-Mississippi West, 1860–1900
- 11
- Immigration, Urbanization, and Everyday Life, 1860–1900
- 12
- Politics and Expansion in an Industrializing Age, 1877–1900
- 13
- The Cold War Abroad and at Home,1945–1952
- 14
- Global Dangers, Global Challenges, 2001 to the Present
- 15
- Revision
- 16
- Final Exam
- 1
- Knowledge and analysis on the wars in USA
- 2
- Understand and analyze the elements of the USA as an international superpower
- 3
- Evaluate the history in function of the development of culture
- Quantity Percentage Total percent
- Midterms
- 1 30% 30%
- Quizzes
- 1 10% 10%
- Projects
- 1 10% 10%
- Term projects
- 0 0% 0%
- Laboratories
- 0 0% 0%
- Class participation
- 0 0% 0%
- Total term evaluation percent
- 50%
- Final exam percent
- 50%
- Total percent
- 100%
- Quantity Duration (hours) Total (hours)
- Course duration (including exam weeks)
- 16 4 64
- Off class study hours
- 14 3 42
- Duties
- 1 0 0
- Midterms
- 1 8 8
- Final exam
- 1 12 12
- Other
- 0 0 0
- Total workLoad
- 126
- Total workload / 25 (hours)
- 5.04
- ECTS
- 5.00