Critical Issues in US History

Catalog description

This course is designed to familiarize secondary social studies education candidates with the major themes in U.S. history from the founding of the nation to the recent past, consistent with the National Standards for Social Studies Teachers developed by the National Council for the Social Studies. Among the topics to be covered are the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, the rise of sectionalism and disunion, the Reconstruction Era, American expansionism, Progressivism, the Great Depression and the New Deal, and the Cold War and post-Cold War Era. Candidates construct their own organization and units of U.S. history.