2024-2025 Academic Catalog 
    
    Nov 24, 2024  
2024-2025 Academic Catalog

HIST 103H - American Foundations Honors

3 CR

A survey of the political, economic and social history of the United States from the colonial era to 1877. Honors courses emphasize individual study, personal and group projects with additional learning outcomes common to the Honors Program. Prospective students must meet the Honors program admissions requirements.


Requisites:
Next Gen ACCUPLACER reading score of 244, or at least a grade of C in TSRE 55  .

General Education Requirement: Personal and Cultural Engagement
Michigan Transfer Agreement Requirement: Social Sciences
Course Learning Outcomes:
1. Students will analyze historical resources and primary materials.
2. Students will examine historical eras using resources and primary materials
3. Students will identify cultural, social, political and economic institutions in America to 1877
4. Students will assess these institutions, trends and/or themes as catalysts of historical change. 

Honors Outcomes:

  1. Collaborate in college, local, and global communities.
  2. Demonstrate expertise and research skills in select areas of study.
  3. Develop an interdisciplinary perspective across the liberal arts and sciences.
  4. Demonstrate intellectual independence through verbal and written work.
  5. Demonstrate research skills, including analysis of information and perspectives from diverse sources.
  6. Develop plans and skills to further both academic and professional careers.