Jan 04, 2025

2022-2023 Undergraduate Catalog

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HIST 231 Michigan in the Development of the United States [GEKS]

This course prepares Elementary Education majors to teach the American and Michigan history content areas that they will be expected to teach in 1st through 5th grades in the state of Michigan and introduces students to a variety of methods historians use to study the past. As part of this course, students must participate in a field experience.

Credit 3 hrs May not be repeated for additional credit
Grade Mode Normal (A-F) Course Rotation Fall and Winter

Prerequisites -
Other Restrictions -
Restriction by Major - Elementary - Early Childhood Teaching and Learning (with Certification) [BS]
Restriction by Class - Undergraduate standing

Rationale for Knowledge of the Disciplines - As part of Eastern Michigan University’s General Education Program, this course meets the requirement for Knowledge of the Disciplines - Social Science (GEKS) because it provides an introduction to a variety of social science methodologies while emphasizing history’s unique contribution to the social sciences, the notion that any period develops from the periods preceding it. In pursuit of that aim, you will gain the foundational content knowledge needed to understand and interpret the major trends, people, ideas, and events that have shaped early United States history and the history of Michigan, exploring the formal and informal social and political structures, organizations, and institutions that structured people’s lives and created particular power relationships. As a history class, you will particularly focus on social change and its impact. You will learn the difference between qualitative and quantitative research and the applicability of both. You will learn to recognize that historical events may have more than one interpretation. Through a series of in-class activities and independent papers, you will learn about and use the methods historians employ to critically select and evaluate evidence from the past, assess its significance, and analyze the interpretive accounts that give this past meaning, presenting that knowledge clearly and concisely.

Keywords: history, GEKS
Updates: Change to corequisites 12/2021, effective Fall 2022; Major Restriction updated 9/2021; Approved for GEKS 12/2020, New Course 8/2020, effective Fall 2021

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