History

Students who successfully complete this course will:

1. Analyze a variety of primary and secondary historical sources and their varying perspectives.
2. Identify the origins, development and spread of the world’s major cultural traditions.
3. Evaluate the relationship between the causes and effects of important historical events and trends.
4. Explain how certain diverse human societies evolved.
5. Appraise the human historical experience- past, present, and future.

Students who successfully complete this course will:

1. Analyze a variety of primary and secondary historical sources and their varying perspectives.
2. Assess the origins, development and impact of revolution including the resulting political, economic, intellectual, and cultural changes.
3. Assess the origins, interrelationships, development and impact of nationalism, industrialization, imperialism and globalization.
4. Compare and contrast the differences between traditional and modern societies.
5. Explain the evolution and connections of world events on diverse human societies from the Renaissance to the present.
6. Analyze different political systems, including democracies and authoritarian governments around the world. 

Students who successfully complete this course will be able to:

1. Describe the physical and cultural features of the earth’s surface and their origins and interconnections.
2. Explain the dynamic physical forces such as climate, plate tectonics, erosion and deposition.
3. Identify the major physical and cultural regions that the earth’s surface has evolved into.
4. Evaluate the evolution and geographic distribution of such phenomenon as human population, economic activity, culture, language, and religion.
5. Assess the reasons why the economic development and wealth of the world is so unevenly geographically distributed.

Students who successfully complete this course will be able to:

1. Assess the growth of American power from the Reconstruction Era to the present.
2. Analyze the continuing evolution of the American identity at home and abroad.
3. Examine the continuing evolution of American governmental institutions and policies from the Reconstruction Era to the present.
4. Explain the continuing development and transformation of the American economy.
5. Evaluate the impact of social, religious, intellectual, and cultural movements in the United States from the Reconstruction Era to the present.

1. Formulate an understanding of the development of American institutions as they evolved over the 20th century.
2. Identify the dynamics of power as they have evolved and changed over time in regards to culture, social class, the economic order, government, race and gender, violence and crime, poverty and powerlessness, and the environment.
3. Summarize the major events of the 20th century in the United States.

1. Define what foreign policy is generally and how a nation’s foreign policy is determined.
2. Identify the key elements and events of US foreign policy through World War II.
3. Describe and appraise US foreign policy from World War II to the present with a special emphasis on US relations with developing nations.
4. Locate significant places studied on a world map.

1. Explain the major historical trends in the history of the United States as related to the Southern New England region.
2. Demonstrate an understanding of the importance of geography to the history of New England.
3. Relate and discuss historical events to persons and places visible in everyday life.
4. Analyze and appraise the importance of historical sites to the economic life of the Southern New England region.
5. Define and demonstrate an understanding of the major historical developments of Southern New England history from the period of precontact to the late Twentieth Century.
6. Demonstrate the relation of the sites of historical importance in the region to major historical themes in American history.

1. Explain how humans were able to adapt to almost every environment on earth and the resulting diversity of world cultures.
2. Identify the origins, development, and spread of several of the world’s major spiritual traditions.
3. Describe the development of systems of authority, order, and control that extended across time and space to create territorial systems.
4. Read, interpret, and evaluate a variety of historical materials (text, primary sources, varying pictorial and graphic materials) to answer questions and understand varying perspectives.
5. Recognize and describe patterns of change and continuity over time.

1. Discover a better concept of themselves within the human experience in relationship to time – past, present, and future.
2. Develop a clearer and more comprehensive understanding of Western civilization and the historical forces, which produced it from the end of the Roman Empire to the beginning of the modern world.
3. Recognize that events and forces of the contemporary world did not develop out of a vacuum, but had their origins in the past.
4. Describe the basis of the feudal system and its economic, social, and political impact.
5. Identify the local nature of the economic, social, and political system known as feudalism and explain the difference between it and our modern democratic institutions.
6. Discuss the diversity, richness, and uniqueness of the lives of medieval people and compare them to the lives of other people from diverse cultures and time periods.

Students who successfully complete this course will:

1. Analyze a variety of primary and secondary historical sources and their varying perspectives.
2. Recognize patterns of change and continuity with emphasis on risk taking and innovation.
3. Assess how world geography shapes personal and cultural values and the collective identity of people around the world.
4. Compare various political and economic systems that co-existed during this time period.
5. Explain the changes in religious beliefs and practices.
6. Evaluate the effect of nation states and empires on contemporary world issues and challenges.

Students who successfully complete this course will be able to:

1. Identify the essential human activities that define culture and how they apply to the development of the diversity of global foodways.
2. Examine how spiritual and social beliefs and practices shaped the development of foodways in different places over time
3. Apply knowledge of essential historical events and experiences to the changes in foodways.
4. Identify the patterns of major population shifts and their connection to the creation of distinctive cuisines.
5. Assess the patterns of change and continuity in foodways both within and across cultures.

Students who successfully complete this course will be able to:

1. Explain the political, social, and cultural history of a diverse population of American women from the Pre-Columbian period to the present day.
2. Assess the ways that women have altered and shaped the social, cultural, and political face of the United States.
3. Appraise the transformation and evolution of gender relations throughout American history and across various cultural, ethnic, and socio-economic groups.
4. Analyze both primary and scholarly sources on women’s history including art, literature, and speeches.
5. Analyze issues affecting women in American history in their greater historical context, and how they impact women today.

1. Examine the complex and diverse cultures and societies of the indigenous peoples of pre-contact Africa.
2. Describe and assess the origins and impact of the slave trade and slavery on American society.
3. Analyze and assess the ways that African-Americans have altered and shaped the social, cultural, and political mosaic of the United States.
4. Explain and evaluate the evolution of race relations throughout American history.
5. Apply the tools gained from the study of the past to an analysis of the present and prediction for the future.
6. Explain how an understanding of the history of African-Americans makes students better citizens in an increasingly complex world.

1. Read, interpret, and evaluate a variety of historical materials to assess varying perspectives.
2. Analyze and evaluate the impact of religious, intellectual, and cultural movements in Russia and the Soviet Union in the 20th Century.
3. Recognize and analyze the influence of complex and diverse cultures within Russia and the Soviet Union.
4. Describe the importance of geography to the history of Russia and the Soviet Union.
5. Explain the development and transformation of the Soviet economy.

1. Evaluate the origins and causes of WWII within the global context of post-WWI conditions, which set the stage for the rise of Totalitarianism and the growing global crises of the 1920’s and 1930’s.
2. Describe the impact of scientific and technological developments on the weapons technology by 1939 and its impact on the course of WWII.
3. Explain the immediate events leading up to the outbreak of war in Europe in Sept. 1939. 
4. Assess how Germany conquered most of Europe by 1942 and the Allied reaction to German military expansion.
5. Describe the events in East Asia and the western Pacific, which led to Japanese military conquest and expansion from 1931 to 1942.
6. Identify how the Allied powers (U.S., Great Britain and the U.S.S.R.) eventually stopped, and then finally defeated, the Axis powers.
7. Evaluate the impact of the Allied victory on the post-1945 world.

1. Analyze the scope of human experience as perceived through the study of history, particularly the history of non-Western societies.
2. Recognize and analyze that the study of Asian history (China and Japan) yields an awareness of the forces that shaped the world today.
3. Write critically and analytically about East Asian culture, society, economics, and government.
4. Read both primary and secondary sources and explain and synthesize college level materials on East Asian history.
5. Recognize and explain the cultural context of Asia and utilize that understanding within the framework of American cultural diversity.

Students who successfully complete this course will:

1. Demonstrate a general knowledge of the complex and diverse cultures and societies of the indigenous nations of North America.
2. Appraise the multicultural nature of modern life within the context of Native American Indian history.
3. Describe the interplay of economics, politics, culture, diplomacy, and technology in the conduct of the United States government towards its native peoples.
4. Apply the tools gained from the study of the past to an analysis of the present and prediction for the future.
5. Explain how an understanding of the history of North American Indian Peoples makes students better citizens in an increasingly complex world.

1. Define terminology specific to the topics discussed.
2. Apply course materials to real world scenarios.
3. Identify key concepts connected to topic.
4. Evaluate arguments about the course theme. 

1. Recognize that the United States, from its earliest beginnings, has been a racially, ethnically, and culturally diverse nation.
2. Explain how and why mass immigration has been, and still is, a potent force in shaping the American nation.
3. Describe the numerous and varied contributions made to American culture by the peoples who have settled in the United States.
4. Read and write analytically about immigration to the United States.