Course Goals and Outcomes
Course Goals
The following course goals articulate the general objectives and purpose of this course.
Students will:
The following course goals articulate the general objectives and purpose of this course.
Students will:
- gain a sense of the themes of history through the study of various cultures and time periods. These themes include cooperation, conflict, change, cultural diffusion, movement, and innovation, relation to the environment, diversity, uniformity, revolution, reaction, and nationalism/regionalism.
- learn to interpret and analyze history through a variety of media and understand the cause and effect relationship prevalent throughout South Carolina history.
- gain an appreciation of the diversity of cultures throughout South Carolina history.
- increase their literacy level by improving their historical reading comprehension skills to aid their writing skills.
Course Outcomes
After completing this course, students will be able to:
After completing this course, students will be able to:
- demonstrate an understanding of the settlement of South Carolina and the United States by Native Americans, Europeans, and Africans
- demonstrate an understanding of the causes of the American Revolution and the beginnings of the new nation, with an emphasis on South Carolina's role in the development of that nation
- demonstrate an understanding of the multiple events that led to the Civil War
- understand the impact of Reconstruction, industrialization, and Progressivism on society and politics in South Carolina in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
- demonstrate an understanding of the impact on South Carolina of significant events of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries