HIST 17B 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 Reconstruction to the present. Emphasis is on the political, economic, intellectual, and social forces which have molded modern America. 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, racial, class, religious, and gender conflicts, immigration, politics, economics, culture, the development of a national identity and American institutions, as well as the United States rise as a major world power. A study of California state and local government is included in this course. 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 140)