Module Details

Module Code: CULT H2011
Full Title: The Rise of the USA: Civil War to Cold War
Valid From:: Semester 1 - 2019/20 ( June 2019 )
Language of Instruction:English
Duration: 1 Semester
Credits:: 5
Module Owner::  
Departments: Unknown
Module Description: no description provided
 
Module Learning Outcome
On successful completion of this module the learner will be able to:
# Module Learning Outcome Description
MLO1 Elaborate on the historical significance of the US Executive, Legislature and Judiciary by reference to specific events and eras
MLO2 Appraise the historical development of the issue of race within American society.
MLO3 Discuss the rise to global dominance of the American economic and financial system.
MLO4 Identify the complex responses from within American society to engagement in foreign wars, in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.
MLO5 Evaluate the vitality and universality of American cultural products in the 20th century.
Pre-requisite learning
Module Recommendations
This is prior learning (or a practical skill) that is strongly recommended before enrolment in this module. You may enrol in this module if you have not acquired the recommended learning but you will have considerable difficulty in passing (i.e. achieving the learning outcomes of) the module. While the prior learning is expressed as named DkIT module(s) it also allows for learning (in another module or modules) which is equivalent to the learning specified in the named module(s).
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Module Indicative Content
Module Summary
This module will introduce students to the history of the USA since the Civil War. Moving between internal debates and external actions the lectures will explore the tensions between the rhetoric of American governments on freedom and equality and the reality of racial experience in American society; the hostility to war as an instrument of USA foreign policy and the universal attractiveness of American affluence, cultural productions and consumer values; the conservative fundamentalism of American beliefs and the freedom accorded to individuals in sexual behaviour and attitudes.
Module content will include
• Reconstruction • The Jim Crow laws and legalised segregation. • The industrialisation of the American economy. • The establishment of a continental power: 1867-1914. • The USA and World War 1: the people and the economy. • Isolationism and Prohibition • The Great Depression • The New Deal • The USA and World War 2 • The establishment of a global power: 1945-61. • McCarthyism and the enemy within. • The Race problem and de-segregation. • 1960s: Challenging the system. • American popular culture and the culture of affluence. • Becoming a hyper-power.
Module Assessment
Assessment Breakdown%
Course Work100.00%
Module Special Regulation
 

Assessments

Full-time

Course Work
Assessment Type Portfolio % of Total Mark 40
Marks Out Of 0 Pass Mark 0
Timing n/a Learning Outcome 2,3,5
Duration in minutes 0
Assessment Description
Assemble, explain and interpret a portfolio of three historical documents on the module, accompany each document with a research bibliography; approx. 1500 words
Assessment Type Essay % of Total Mark 60
Marks Out Of 0 Pass Mark 0
Timing n/a Learning Outcome 1,4
Duration in minutes 0
Assessment Description
Write an essay on a given topic based on original research in online archival resources; approx. 2000 words
No Project
No Practical
No Final Examination

Part-time

Course Work
Assessment Type Portfolio % of Total Mark 40
Marks Out Of 0 Pass Mark 0
Timing n/a Learning Outcome 2,3,5
Duration in minutes 0
Assessment Description
Assemble, explain and interpret a portfolio of three historical documents on the module, accompany each document with a research bibliography; approx 1500 words
Assessment Type Essay % of Total Mark 60
Marks Out Of 0 Pass Mark 0
Timing n/a Learning Outcome 1,4
Duration in minutes 0
Assessment Description
Write an essay on a given topic based on original research in online archival resources; approx. 2000 words
No Project
No Practical
No Final Examination
Reassessment Requirement
No repeat examination
Reassessment of this module will be offered solely on the basis of coursework and a repeat examination will not be offered.

DKIT reserves the right to alter the nature and timings of assessment

 

Module Workload

Workload: Full-time
Workload Type Contact Type Workload Description Frequency Average Weekly Learner Workload Hours
Lecture Contact No Description Every Week 2.00 2
Tutorial Contact No Description Every Week 1.00 1
Directed Reading Non Contact No Description Every Week 2.00 2
Independent Study Non Contact No Description Every Week 4.00 4
Total Weekly Learner Workload 9.00
Total Weekly Contact Hours 3.00
Workload: Part-time
Workload Type Contact Type Workload Description Frequency Average Weekly Learner Workload Hours
Lecture Contact No Description Every Week 2.00 2
Directed Reading Non Contact No Description Every Week 4.00 4
Independent Study Non Contact No Description Every Week 3.00 3
Total Weekly Learner Workload 9.00
Total Weekly Contact Hours 2.00
 
Module Resources
Recommended Book Resources
  • Foner, Eric. (2009), Give Me Liberty an American History volume two, Second Edition. Norton, New York.
  • Jenkins, Philip. (2007), A History of the United States, Palgrave Macmillan, London.
  • Abrams, Richard M.. (2006), America Transformed, Sixty Years of Revolutionary Change 1941-2001, Cambridge UP, Cambridge.
This module does not have any article/paper resources
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