CUNY Stella and Charles Guttman Community College · Courses
HIST
5 courses with the subject HIST, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
HIST 111(, Hours: 3)3
The United States from the Colonial Era to the Civil War This course serves as a general introduction to the main events, themes, and movements in U.S. history from colonization through the Civil War. It seeks to identify and explore the transformative social, cultural, and political moments of this long historical period. Thus, the course examines European contact, conflict, cooperation with, and colonization of indigenous peoples; the transatlantic slave trade; coercive labor forms and slave revolts in the American Colonies and the United States; the context that led to, and consequences that came from the American Revolution; Native removal, genocide and resistance; western conquest justified by the logic of Manifest Destiny; immigrant and class conflict in the colonies and early republic; a redefinition of household and gender roles in early American society; the long road to Civil War. Students will also develop skills such as writing for a humanities audience, critical reading of primary and secondary sources, and argument- based discussion. In sum, this course introduces students to a wide variety of analytical tools and approaches to better understand the settlement of North America and the founding of the United States.
Who Built New York? New York City History Emphasizing the role that working people have played in the development of New York City, this U.S. history course will explore New York’s social, economic, political, and cultural history from the earliest contacts between members of the Dutch West India Company and local Native Americans to the present day. Topics will include labor, immigration, ethnic politics, social movements, popular culture, and the making of the physical city. Pre/Co-requisites: None
History of Urban Life This course examines the development of urban communities across the United States both temporally and geographically. It examines the patterns of cleavage, conflict, convergence of interest, and consensus that have structured urban life. Social, cultural, and economic forces will be analyzed for the roles they have played in shaping the diverse communities of America’s cities. Pre/Co-requisites: None
Latin American History: 19th and 20th Centuries This course explores crucial issues in the history of Latin America, from the Independence period through the present. It will expose the class to a range of people, movements, ideologies, and events, which will allow students to critically examine the causes and outcomes of revolution and counterrevolution in Latin America, 1800-Present. Intimately tied to this history, the class will critically examine the role of the United States in Latin America as an imperial actor and a destination for refugees seeking a better life. By the end of the semester, students should be able to articulate the motivations of various actors in major events studied. They should be able to trace historic patterns across the region, while also identifying moments that altered the trajectory of communities, nations, regions, and/or the world. Finally, undergraduates should grasp the ways geopolitical strategies, nationalist movements, and transnational struggles have influenced both past and present realities for the people of Latin America.
