Lewis Hine/ Lower East Side Playground/ NYC circa 1910

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COURSE DESCRIPTION - A survey in printed text, CD-ROMs and the World Wide Web of American history from 1877 to the present. Using a multi-media approach, the course will integrate social, political and economic history, focusing on how ordinary people changed history and how history changed ordinary people.

LATENESS/ATTENDANCE - Be on time to class. Students who are consistently late will be counted as absent. You are allowed three un-excused absences. Excessive absence will result in failure.

READING - Purchase Paul S. Boyer et al, The Enduring Vision -- Essentials/ Multimedia Edition (Houghton Mifflin)

CD-ROM/WORLD WIDE WEB - We will use resources from the CD-ROM and the World Wide Web to supplement the reading and classroom discussions. Previous background in computers is not necessary. In class, you will learn the skills necessary to use these resources.

QUIZZES - There will be a ten-question multiple-choice quiz for every reading assignment.  Quizzes, given during the first five minutes of class, will be on the on the assigned reading for that day.  You will get a reading guide for each assignment which will specify the identifications and questions covered by the quiz.  The average of your highest nine quiz grades will count as 20% of your final grade.

GRADES - Exams will comprise 60% of your grade, quizzes 20% and computer lab and class participation another 20%.

BIBLIOGRAPHY - There are useful bibliographies at the conclusion of each chapter in the Enduring Vision.