Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
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2500245 English Studies | OB | 2 | 1 |
2501902 English and Catalan | OB | 3 | 1 |
2501907 English and Classics | OB | 3 | 1 |
2501910 English and Spanish | OB | 3 | 1 |
2501913 English and French | OB | 3 | 1 |
1) “Història i Cultura dels Estats Units d’Amèrica” focuses on socio-cultural analysis and promotes student participation and reflection. In like manner, “Història i Cultura dels Estats Units d’Amèrica” also revolves around the historical events that have shaped the USA as we know them today. This being the case, students interested in this subject are strongly recommended to be familiar with the subject “Història i Cultura de les Illes Britàniques” (English Studies). For parallel reasons, this subject is NOT recommended to USA passport holders who have taken similar subjects in their country of origin.
2) Students who want to take part in this course need a C1 of the “Common European Framework of Reference for Languages” which, in practical terms, implies that they have to be able to: comprehend a wide variety of long and complex written and audiovisual materials and recognize their implicit meaning; express themselves with fluency and spontaneity; use English flexibly and efficiently for social and professional purposes; produce well-structured texts about complex topics, and demonstrate an appropriate command of the appropriate cohesive devices that are required in academic contexts.
1: North America before "the Discovery"
2: Colonial America: Virginia, Plymouth, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, New York.
3: The Road to Independence
4: Revolution and the War of Independence
5: Confederation - Federation: The Constitution; The Bill of Rights; George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson; The Louisiana Purchase; The Lewis & Clark Expedition; The 1812 War
6: The West (The Mexican War – Texas – California – Native Americans)
7: Slavery, Plantation Life and the Road to the Civil War
8: The Civil War; Lincoln, Reconstruction, Segregation, the KKK
9: The Beginnings of American Imperialism: the Spanish-American War – Immigration
10: World War I – The Roaring 20s – Feminism – The Great Depression
11: World War II – The Conservative 50s
12: The 60s – The Vietnam War – Women’s Lib – The Black Civil Rights Movement
13: From the Cold War to the Gulf War
14: From 9/11 - The War on Terror - to Trump
The teaching methodology of this subject is based on:
1ECTS credit = 25 hours of learning > 6 credits = 150 hours
Directed activities (35% max., we are doing 30%, 1.8 cr.)
Supervised activities (17% max., we are doing 15%, 0.9 cr.)
Autonomous activities (50% minimum, 3 cr.)
Assessment activities (max. 5%, 0.3 cr.)
Classes combine theory and practice. Students have to complement the history taught in class with the reading of A History of the United States (Jenkin, 2017) following the requirements of their professor. The reading of this book provides the necessary foundations with which students can analyze and comment on the chosen texts and films assigned to every session. To pass this subject, students are required to: read the compulsory book indicated, watch the films recommended and understand the recommended texts. The dynamics of the class revolves around the active participation of students in every session.
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
Debates in class or moodle | 20 | 0.8 | 1, 6, 10, 5 |
Lectures | 30 | 1.2 | 16 |
Type: Supervised | |||
Assessment | 5 | 0.2 | 2, 7, 9, 16 |
In class or moodle assessment | 5 | 0.2 | 1, 4, 13 |
Written assignment | 15 | 0.6 | 3, 9 |
Type: Autonomous | |||
Personal Study | 15 | 0.6 | 8 |
Reading and research | 35 | 1.4 | 2 |
Assessment for this course is based on the following:
ASSESSMENT:
Students will obtain a Not assessed/Not submitted course grade unless they have submitted more than 66% of the assessment items, i.e. the two exams and at least ONE forum contribution.
On carrying out each assessment activity, lecturers will inform students (on Moodle) of the procedures to be followed for reviewing all grades awarded, and the date on which such a review will take place. Students have the right to review their exercises (including reassessment) with their teacher in a personal tutorial on the set dates, never after the next assessment activity has already been done. Students lose this right if they fail to collect their exercise within the period announced by the teacher.
REASSESSMENT:
Re-assessmentfor this subject requires a content-synthesis test, for which the following conditions are applicable
The student must previously have submitted a minimum of two-thirds of the course-assessment items, that is the two written exams and at least ONE forum contribution.
VERY IMPORTANT: Plagiarism in any of the exercises will automatically lead to FAILING (0/10) the exercise, which cannot be reassessed. If the student plagiarizes a second time, s/he will fail the course. PLAGIARISM means copying a text (and this includes a single sentence) from unidentified sources and pretending it is part of one's own production (THIS INCLUDES COPYING SENTENCES OR FRAGMENTS FROM THE INTERNET, WHICH ARE INCLUDED WITHOUT ANY CHANGES TO THE TEXT THAT IS PRESENTED AS ONE'S OWN) and it is a serious academic offence. Students must learn to respect others' intellectual property and to always identify the sources they use. It is absolutely necessary for students to become entirely responsible for the originality and authenticity of their texts.
In the event of a student committing any irregularity that may lead to a significant variation in the grade awarded to an assessment activity, the student will be given a zero for this activity, regardless of any disciplinary process that may take place. In the event of several irregularities in assessment activities of the same subject, the student will be given a zero as the final grade for this subject.
PLEASE NOTE:
In the event that tests or exams cannot be taken onsite, they will be adapted to an online format made available through the UAB’s virtual tools (original weighting will be maintained). Homework, activities and class participation will be carried out through forums, wikis and/or discussion onTeams, etc. Lecturers will ensure that students are able to access these virtual tools, or will offer them feasible alternatives.
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Active participation ( in class and/or forum) | 20% | 21 | 0.84 | 2, 1, 7, 8, 4, 10, 5, 13, 9, 16 |
Exam 1 (Midterm) | 40% | 2 | 0.08 | 2, 1, 14, 3, 6, 7, 8, 4, 11, 10, 5, 13, 9, 16 |
Exam 2 (final) | 40% | 2 | 0.08 | 2, 1, 3, 6, 7, 8, 4, 11, 10, 5, 12, 13, 9, 16, 15 |
Compulsory textbook:
Jenkins, Philip. A History of the United States. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017 (5th Edition).
Highly recommended bibliography:
King, David C. American History. A Visual Encyclopedia. Penguin Random House, 2019 (3rd Edition)
Zinn, Howard. A People’s History of the United States: 1492-Present. London: Longman, 2010.
Secondary bibliography:
Anderson, Carol. White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide. New York: Bloomsbury, 2016.
Barney, William (ed). A Companion to 19th Century America. Malden: Blackwell Publishing, 2006
Boles, John (ed.). A Companion to the American South. Malden: Blackwell Publishing, 2004.
Collins, Patricia. Black Feminist Thought. New York: Routledge, 2000.
Davis, Angela J. (ed.) Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution and Imprisonment. New York: Pantheon Books, 2017.
Deverell, William. A Companion to the American West. Malden: Blackwell, 2006.
Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne. An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States. Boston: Beacon Press, 2014.
Foner, Eric. A Short History of Reconstruction. New York: Harper and Row, 1990
Foner, Eric. The Story of American Freedom. New York: Norton, 1998
Ford, Lacy (ed.). A Companion to the Civil War and Reconstruction. Malden: Blackwell 2005
Genovese, Eugene. Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World Slaves Made. New York: Vintage Books, 1976.
Greene, Jack. A Companion to the American Revolution. Malden: Blackwell Publishing, 2004.
Hewitt, Nancy. A Companion to American Women's History. Malden: Blackwell 2002
Kleinberg, S. Jay, Vicki Ruiz & Eileen Boris (eds), The Practice of US Women's History, Rutgers UP, 2008. ebook
Morgan, Edmund. American Heroes: Profiles of Men and Women Who Shaped Early America. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2009.
Ortiz, Paul. An African American and Latinx History of the United States. Boston: Beacon Press, 2018.
Vickers, Daniel (ed.). A Companion to Colonial America. Malden: Blackwell, 2006
Vorenberg, Michael. Final Freedom, The Civil War, the Abolition of Slavery, and the Thirteenth Amendment. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Whitfield,Stephen (ed.). A Companion to 20th-Century America. Malden: Blackwell, 2006.
Wood, Gordon. Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic: 1789-1815. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.
Journals
American History. electronic journal
The Journal of African American History - electronic journal
Websites
The American Yawp http://www.americanyawp.com/
No specific software will be used for this subject