History of the United States

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Course ID:	3301-L2HUSW
Erasmus code / ISCED:	08.303 Kod klasyfikacyjny przedmiotu składa się z trzech do pięciu cyfr, przy czym trzy pierwsze oznaczają klasyfikację dziedziny wg. Listy kodów dziedzin obowiązującej w programie Socrates/Erasmus, czwarta (dotąd na ogół 0) – ewentualne uszczegółowienie informacji o dyscyplinie, piąta – stopień zaawansowania przedmiotu ustalony na podstawie roku studiów, dla którego przedmiot jest przeznaczony. / (0222) History and archaeology The ISCED (International Standard Classification of Education) code has been designed by UNESCO.
Course title:	History of the United States
Name in Polish:	Historia USA
Organizational unit:	Institute of English Studies
Course groups:	(in Polish) Obowiązkowe zajęcia dla drugiego roku studiów pierwszego stopnia
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores):	(not available) Basic information on ECTS credits allocation principles: the annual hourly workload of the student’s work required to achieve the expected learning outcomes for a given stage is 1500-1800h, corresponding to 60 ECTS; the student’s weekly hourly workload is 45 h; 1 ECTS point corresponds to 25-30 hours of student work needed to achieve the assumed learning outcomes; weekly student workload necessary to achieve the assumed learning outcomes allows to obtain 1.5 ECTS; work required to pass the course, which has been assigned 3 ECTS, constitutes 10% of the semester student load. view allocation of credits
Language:	English
Type of course:	obligatory courses
Mode:	Classroom
Short description:	The lecture is a survey of major themes and events in American history from the colonial times to World War II.
Full description:	The lecture is a survey of major themes and events in American history from the colonial times to the present. The material is going to be presented in the form of lectures, dealing with the following topics: Colonial North America; Political and economic history from the American Revolution to the Civil War; American society and culture from the American Revolution to the Civil War; Political and economic history from the Civil War to the First World War; American society and culture from the Civil War to the First World War; American politics, society and culture in the 1920s; American society and culture: the Great Depression, WWII.
Bibliography:	Outline of U.S. History (Department of State, 2011), Online: https://photos.state.gov/libraries/amgov/30145/publications-english/history_outline.pdf Howard Zinn, A People's History of the Unites States. Harper Perennial Modern Classics; Reissue edition 2015 (1980) Hugh Brogan, The Penguin History of the United States of America, 2001 (1991) Jill Lepore, These Truths: A History of the United States.W.W. Norton & Company, 2018.
Assessment methods and assessment criteria:	Students are required to attend the lectures Grading criteria: final test

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