HONR 203B

Prerequisite: Completion of HONR 101, HONR D101, HONR 102, and HONR D102. Restricted to students in the Honors Program.

This course examines the question, "Who are we in the United States of America?" Students approach this question using multiple texts and visual materials that address social, political, and cultural aspects of the U.S. experience. The course illustrates the main contours of American society and the American story and explores the ways in which our self-image as a people reflects and contradicts reality.

Outcomes: Students will understand the role of key social processes such as the frontier experience, industrialization, immigration, religious pluralism, and the struggle for equality in the development of a distinctive American story; They will learn to use available public sources to conduct research on aspects of the American experience.

Session

Regular Academic Session

Class Number

3844

Career

Undergraduate

Units

3 units

Grading

Graded Alpha

Description

Prerequisite: Completion of HONR 101, HONR D101, HONR 102, and HONR D102. Restricted to students in the Honors Program.

This course examines the question, "Who are we in the United States of America?" Students approach this question using multiple texts and visual materials that address social, political, and cultural aspects of the U.S. experience. The course illustrates the main contours of American society and the American story and explores the ways in which our self-image as a people reflects and contradicts reality.

Outcomes: Students will understand the role of key social processes such as the frontier experience, industrialization, immigration, religious pluralism, and the struggle for equality in the development of a distinctive American story; They will learn to use available public sources to conduct research on aspects of the American experience.

Enrollment Requirements

Prerequisite HONR 101, HONR D101, HONR 102, HONR D102. Restricted to students in the Honors Program

Requirement Designation

Honors

Class Attributes

Tier 2 Societal Knowledge

Class Notes

Restricted to Students in the Honors Program. This course examines the American experience of education. All Americans get an education, though the education each of us ends up getting also has the effect of making us the unique persons we are. As one of the most universal and yet profoundly diverse and personal experiences Americans have, education offers a wealth of questions and avenues of inquiry. Throughout American history, schools have been important as places where children learn to move between the private life of families and the public life of participation in a democracy. They are the places where we become the Americans we are. This course will focus on how different groups experienced education throughout history, as well as on how some insightful individuals opened up new possibilities for what education could be. It will trace the history of education in the United States, beginning with the colonial experience and ending up in contemporary times, drawing on literature, philosophy, and films as well as more conventional historical sources to explore not just what happened but what the experience meant and felt like for Americans across time. Americans have always had bigger dreams for the experience of education than we have succeeded in realizing, and the course will also consider the successes and failures of our expectations, as well as where education might go in the years ahead.

Instructor(s)

Amy Shuffelton

Meets

TuTh 1:00PM - 2:15PM

Dates

01/13/2025 - 04/26/2025

Instruction Mode

In person

Campus

Lake Shore Campus

Location

Lake Shore Campus

Components

Lecture Required

Status

Closed

Seats Taken

26

Seats Open

0

Class Capacity

25

Wait List Total

0

Wait List Capacity

0