HONR 210 - The American Experience

Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Laboratory Hours: 0

Prerequisite(s): Enrollment in the Honors Program or minimum GPA of 3.3

Restriction(s): None

Corequisite(s): None

This course consists of a series of readings, lectures, and seminars that focus on some of the unique voices who have helped to define what it is to be “American.” Students become conversant in the ideas and values of some of our most famous artists, authors, and thinkers, and will define what is culturally unique about the American experience.

Student Learning Outcomes of the Course: GE-4 American History

Knowledge of a basic narrative of modern American history: political, economic, social and cultural taking into account the issues of unity and diversity in American society.
Knowledge of the common institutions in American history and how they have affected different groups and the collective.
Knowledge of the United States’ evolving relationship with the rest of the world