HIST 17A History of the United States

Units: 3
Advisories: ENG 1A with a grade of “C” or better and ability to read at the 12th grade level.
This course is a survey of United States history from its pre-colonial beginnings through the Civil War and Reconstruction. The course covers significant persons, events, and issues from our nation’s past. Covered topics include all geographical regions ultimately encompassed by the United States, initial cultural contact, European settlements, racial, class, religious, and gender conflicts, immigration, the development of a national identity and American institutions, as well as sectionalism and trans-continental expansion. This course fulfills the Delta College American Institutions (Area 4) requirement for the associate degree general education pattern. It can be applied toward the Social, Political, and Economic Institutions requirement (Area D) in the CSU general education pattern as well as the American Institutions graduation requirement. (UC, CSU, C-ID HIST 130)