HSTY1023 - Emerging Giant: The Making of America

Semester 1, 2012  |  Credit Points: 6

Coordinator: Frances Margaret Clarke
Phone: +61 2 9351 2880
Email: frances.clarke@sydney.edu.au

Description

Touching down on the shores of the 'New World', the first European colonists imagined the creation of an earthly paradise. But their mission soon floundered in the face of internal dissenters and alien cultures pursuing their own ideals. Fierce clashes between regions, races, social groups and other nations have marked American history ever since. Exploring the origins and outcomes of these contests from first settlement onward, this unit charts America's emergence onto the world scene in the nineteenth century.

Assessments

1x500wd document assignment (15%) and 1x2000wd research paper (40%) and 1x2000wd exam (35%) and tutorial participation (10%)

Classes

2x1-hr lectures/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week.

Prohibitions

HSTY2634

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