Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Meredith College/American History Since 1876 (spring 2025)
| This Course
|
Wikipedia Resources
|
Connect
Questions? Ask us:
contact |
 | This course page is an automatically-updated version of the main course page at dashboard.wikiedu.org. Please do not edit this page directly; any changes will be overwritten the next time the main course page gets updated. |
- Course name
- American History Since 1876
- Institution
- Meredith College
- Instructor
- Angela Robbins
- Wikipedia Expert
- Brianda (Wiki Ed)
- Subject
- History
- Course dates
- 2025-01-09 00:00:00 UTC – 2025-04-25 23:59:59 UTC
- Approximate number of student editors
- 28
This survey course is designed to provide an overview of major events and ideas in the development of modern America, with emphasis on expansion, industrialization, urbanization, race relations, and the growth of federal power, and a particular focus on the vision of a democratic society and concepts of freedom and rights. This course offers a particular focus on marginalized Americans, or those who faced various forms of discrimination throughout modern American history, including women, Native Americans, immigrants, African Americans, Asian Americans, and Latino/a Americans; the vision of a democratic society; and concepts of freedom and rights.
Students will develop skills in historical inquiry to continually investigate how learning about the past helps us make sense of the world we live in. Those skills include asking questions, reading and interpreting sources, comparing and evaluating evidence from various sources, and using evidence from sources to answer questions, draw conclusions, and develop arguments.
Wikipedia assignment: Students will acquire skills in digital and media literacy to enhance career-readiness. Students will select, evaluate, and edit existing Wikipedia articles and may choose to write original content. This assignment includes synthesis and analysis of relevant course materials as well as conducting original research into course-related topics with an eye toward the categories of gender, race, class, ethnicity, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, and intersectionality.