HIST V51 — United States History: Focus on African Americans Since Reconstruction
This course will explore the history of the United States from the Civil War and Reconstruction to the present. It will begin with the struggles the nation faced to reconstruct the Union and to accommodate the newly freed African Americans as citizens of the nation, and trace the parallel struggles of the nation itself and those African American citizens to become one united nation. The course will also analyze Constitutional amendments, industrialization, Jim Crow laws, the Populist Party, the Spanish American War, and subsequent American wars. It will analyze the significant political, cultural, and economic changes in the post World War II era, including the Civil Rights movement and various attempts to address issues of poverty and incomplete citizenship for African Americans and other minorities. The course will emphasize the roles, involvement, and contributions of African Americans, as well as relevant institutions, trends, concepts, movements, and problems. A balanced focus will be placed on social, political, economic, and intellectual considerations.
Part of
- Agriculture Plant Science, Associate in Science for Transfer
- California General Education Transfer Curriculum (Cal-GETC), Certificate of Achievement
- General Studies—Arts and Humanities, Associate in Arts
- General Studies—Social and Behavioral Sciences, Associate in Arts (AA)
- History, Associate in Arts for Transfer
- Intercollegiate Athletics: 1-Year Certificate of Achievement
- Intercollegiate Athletics: 2-Year Certificate of Achievement
- Law, Public Policy, and Society, Associate in Arts for Transfer