TYPE OF COURSE UNIT	Compulsory Course
LEVEL OF COURSE UNIT	Bachelor's Degree
YEAR OF STUDY	2
SEMESTER	Fourth Term (Spring)
NUMBER OF ECTS CREDITS ALLOCATED	6
NAME OF LECTURER(S)	-
LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT	At the end of this course, the students; 1) will be able to discuss the events, ideas, institutions, trends and attitudes that have shaped the history of the United States in the twentieth century.
MODE OF DELIVERY	E-Learning
PRE-REQUISITES OF THE COURSE	No
RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENT	None
COURSE DEFINITION	This course surveys the history of the United States from the end of the Civil War to the present day. Topics surveyed include the two World Wars, American foreign policy, the Cold War, Vietnam, patterns of immigration, and the feminist and civil rights movements. Throughout the course, students will acquire a basic mastery of the events, ideas, institutions, trends, and attitudes that have shaped the recent history of the United States, as well as a working knowledge of the geography of the country.
COURSE CONTENTS	WEEK TOPICS 1st Week Revision: 1830-1860: Life in the North & the West and Life in the South; Slavery & the Road to War, 1845-1861 2nd Week The Civil War, 1861-1865; Reconstruction: An Unfinished Revolution, 1865-1877 3rd Week The Development of the West, 1877-1900; The Machine Age, 1877-1920 4th Week The Vitality and Turmoil of Urban Life, 1877-1920; Gilded Age Politics, 1877-1900 5th Week The Progressive Era, 1895-1920 6th Week MIDTERM EXAMINATION I 7th Week The Quest for Empire, 1865-1914; Americans in the Great War, 1914-1920 8th Week The New Era, 1920-1929; The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1929-1941 9th Week Peaceseekers and Warmakers: Americans in the World, 1920-1941; The Second World War at Home and Abroad, 1941-1945 10th Week MIDTERM EXAMINATION II 11th Week The Cold War and American Globalism, 1945-1961; America at Midcentury, 1945-1960 12th Week The Tumultuous Sixties, 1960-1968; Continuing Divisions and New Limits, 1969-1980
RECOMENDED OR REQUIRED READING	Norton, Mary Beth, et al. A People and a Nation: A History of the United States. 7th ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 2005.
PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODS	Lecture,Discussion,Other
ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA	Quantity Percentage(%) Mid-term 2 60 Quiz 2 5 Attendance 1 5 Total(%) 70 Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%) 70 Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%) 30 Total(%) 100
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION	English
WORK PLACEMENT(S)	No