HIST 135 - The United States Since 1940

1. Explain and analyze the U.S. role in World War II and the significant attitudes about U.S. power that emerged from the victory.
2. Understand and compare major interpretations of the Cold War including its origins, key events, and demise.
3. Understand the principal social, economic, cultural, political, and intellectual changes that define the period under study.
4. Identify and describe the major political events and leading personalities that helped to shape the contemporary United States.

1. Analyze how historical developments have various effects on people based on one or more of the following areas: geographical location, race, ethnicity, cultural traditions, gender and class.
2. Distinguish between opinions, facts, and evidence-based interpretations.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.