TEXAS HISTORY

 

Catalog Descriptions:

Survey of Texas from the Spanish exploration to the present. (4508025125)

 

Course Title:

History 2301

Course Number:

32001

Credit Hours:

3

Prerequisites:

See Catalogue

Semester and Year:

Fall 2009

Class Days and Times:

T 5:30-8:30pm

Building and Room

S 158

Instructor:

Dr. Steven Prewitt

Office Location:

E213T

Office Hours:

M-Th 9:00-9:30 & 1:30-2:00; T 5:00-5:30, and by appointment.

E-mail:

steven.w.prewitt@lonestar.edu

Office phone:

(281)357-3759

Class Website

http://faculty.lonestar.edu/sprewitt

 

 

 

Learning Outcomes: Texas History

Learning Outcomes for HIST 2301
· Analyze the pre-contact Indian societies in Texas.
· Analyze the cultural interchange in early Texas between Native Americans, Europeans, Tejanos, Blacks, and Anglo Americans.
· Assess the efforts of Spain to explore and colonize Texas and its continuing legacy to the present.
· Assess the interplay between Texas and Mexico, examining both the nineteenth and twentieth century relationships.
· Examine the major political, military and social events in the nineteenth century, with an emphasis on the Texas Revolution, the Texas Republic, the Mexican American War, the Civil War, the Frontier Wars, Populist movement and the 19th Century reform.
· Examine the major economic events in nineteenth century Texas, with an emphasis on plantation agriculture, ranching, slavery, sharecropping, and railroads.
· Examine the major social events in nineteenth century Texas, with an emphasis on slavery, Tejano, and Anglo culture, conditions and status on women, and society.
· Examine the major political, military, and social events in the twentieth century, with an emphasis on the Democratic Party's hegemony, the effects of the First and Second World Wars, the Progressive reform, the effects of the New Deal and Great Depression, the rise of the Republican Party, The Red Scare, and the influence of Texas politicians on national and state events.
· Examine the major economic events in twentieth century Texas, with an emphasis on sharecropping and agriculture, the petroleum industry, industrialization, and the defense industry.
· Examine the changes in attitudes, political status, race, class and gender in twentieth century Texas, with an emphasis on Tejano and African American civil rights struggles, immigration, and women in Texas society.
· Describe Texas cultural history from its origins in the 19th century to the 20th century, using examples from fields such as literature, art, music, sports, and film.

 

REQUIRED MATERIALS:
Campbell. Gone to Texas.
Chapa. Texas and Northeastern Mexico, 1630 - 1690.
Van Wagenen. The Texas Republic and the Mormon Kingdom of God.

Bullion, John L. Lyndon B. Johnson and the Transformation of American Politics.

 

Optional Materials or Reference Texts:

Handbook of Texas Online. http://www.tshaonline.org/

Turabian, Kate. A manual for Writers of Term Papers . . ..

 

Evaluation:
There will be three examinations and a biography project that includes a presentation to the class. The examinations will consist of a map section and several essay questions. The essay questions will be answered in a bluebook and written with ball-point pen. Bluebooks and ball-points are available at the bookstore. Details are available on the class website.

 

Requirement

 Date

Percent of Final Average
Biography First Draft October 13 (5%)
Biography Presentation TBA (13%)
Biography Final Draft November 24 (15%)
Total Biography Project

 

 33%
Exam 1 September 29 33%
Exam 2 November 3 33% (see below)
Exam 3 December 8 33%
Five-Pointers TBA 5 Points Each

 

 

Letter Grade Assignment
Final letter grades will be assigned after computing individual final averages in percent as follows:

 

Final Average in Percent

Letter Grade

100 – 89.5 %

A

79.5 – 89.4 %

B

69.0 – 79.4%

C

59 –68.9%

D

0– 58.9%

F

 

 

Attendance Policy:

Attendance to all classes is expected. An excessive number of absences will prohibit the successful completion of this course.  It is the student’s responsibility to obtain lecture notes and assignments from a classmate for any missed days.

 

Assignments:

All assignments are to be completed and submitted to the instructor during class on the scheduled due date.No late assignments will be accepted.

 

Exams:

Exams will include essay questions and a map section. Exams will be written in an exam book (bluebook). These are available at the bookstore. A new exam book is required for each exam. The lower of the first two exam grades for each student will be dropped and will in no way affect the final course grade (EXAM 1& 2 ONLY).

 

Make-up Exams:

THERE ARE NO MAKE-UP EXAMS FOR ANY REASON WHATSOEVER, AT ALL.

 

Withdrawal Policy:

Withdrawal from the course after the official day of record (see current catalog) will result in a final grade of “W” on the student transcript and no credit will be awarded. It is the student’s responsibility to initiate and complete a request for withdrawal from any course.

 

 

Academic Integrity:

LSC - Tomball is committed to a high standard of academic integrity in the academic community. In becoming a part of the academic community, students are responsible for honesty and independent effort. Failure to uphold these standards includes, but is not limited to, the following: plagiarizing written work or projects, cheating on exams or assignments, collusion on an exam or project, and misrepresentation of credentials or prerequisites when registering for a course. Cheating includes looking at or copying from another student's exam, orally communicating or receiving answers during an exam, having another person take an exam or complete a project or assignment, using unauthorized notes, texts, or other materials for an exam, and obtaining or distributing an unauthorized copy of an exam or any part of an exam. Plagiarism means passing off as his/her own the ideas or writings of another (that is, without giving proper credit by documenting sources). Plagiarism includes submitting a paper, report or project that someone else has prepared, in whole or in part. Collusion is inappropriately collaborating on assignments designed to be completed independently. These definitions are not exhaustive. When there is clear evidence of cheating, plagiarism, collusion or misrepresentation, a faculty member will take disciplinary action including but not limited to: requiring the student to retake or resubmit an exam or assignment, assigning a grade of zero or "F" for an exam or assignment; or assigning a grade of "F" for the course. Additional sanctions including being withdrawn from the course, program or expelled from school may be imposed on a student who violates the standards of academic integrity.

 

Electronic Devices:

Cellular phones, pagers and other noise-making devices should not be brought into the classroom. Allowing one of them to ring, buzz, chirp, play tunes or make any other noise in class is unacceptable. Such behavior will be subject to disciplinary action.


 

Course Calendar:

 

 

Dates

Topics

Readings Et Cetera

Week 1
August 25

Introduction, European Background

Gone to Texas (GTT) chapter 1.

The Handbook of Texas has information on all of the topics we will cover.

Biography Choice

Due August 30 or before

Week 2
September 1

Where is Cipango?

Where is the Gold?

GTT ch. 2.

 

Week 3
September 8

Problems with France

GTT ch. 3.

 

 

Week 4
September 15

New Spain Enlarged

GTT ch. 4.

 

 

Week 5

September 22

Revolutions and Constitutions

GTT ch. 5.

Chapa.

Constitution of 1824

 

 

Week 6
September 29

The Republic

EXAM 1, September 29, beginning of class.
GTT chs. 6 & 7.

Van Wagenen.

Constitution of Texas

Week 7
October 6

 

The U.S.A. v. Mexico

GTT ch. 8.

 

Week 8
October 13

The U.S.A. v. the C.S.A.

GTT chs. 9, 10.

Constitution of the CSA

Biography First Draft Due October 13.

Week 9
October 20

 

Subjugating the South and the Indians

GTT ch. 11.

 

Week 10
October 27

Ranching, Farming and Big Business

GTT ch. 12.

 

 

Week 11
November 3

 

Oil

EXAM 2, November 3, beginning of class.
GTT ch. 13 & ch. 14 to "Stock Market Crash . . ."

Bullion

 

Week 12
November 10

Economic collapse and increasing political power

GTT the rest of ch. 14.

 

 

Week 13
November 17

War and Civil Rights

 

GTT ch. 15.

 

 

 

Week 14
November 24

 

Political Power Moves to Town

Biography Final Draft, November 24.

 

Week 15
December 1

Contemporary Texas

GTT ch 16.

DeLeon chs. 8 -12.

 

Final Exam
December 8

EXAM 3.

EXAM 3, everything since Exam 2.

EXAM TIME-6:00-7:50

 

Guaranteed Graduate Policy:

LSCS guarantees that graduates of its Associate of Arts, Associate of Science, or Associate of Applied Science and its Certificate programs will be able to perform at the senior college/university or at an entry level job. The district will provide under certain circumstances, additional education and training tuition free to students lacking appropriate mastery of specified competencies. For additional information, refer to the LSCS college catalog.

ADA Statement:
The Lonestar colleges are dedicated to providing the least restrictive learning environment for all students. The college system promotes equity in academic access through the implementation of reasonable accommodations as required by the Vocational Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Title V, Section 504 and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) which will enable students with disabilities to participate in and benefit from all post-secondary educational activities. If you require reasonable accommodations because of a physical, mental, or learning disability, please notify the office of student development for complete information about support services available to students with disabilities. A qualified disabilities advisor will determine if accommodations are required. It is then the student’s responsibility to bring required documentation from the office of student development to the instructor that specifies all required accommodations.

Equal Opportunity Statement:

It is the policy of the LSCS to provide equal employment, admission and educational opportunities without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, or disability.

LSCS strives to provide an excellent learning environment free from harassment or intimidation directed at any person’s race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, or disability. Any form of harassment will not be tolerated.