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HIST 617C

The West as National Experience

Catalog2026-2027
Credits3 units
LevelGraduate
Standard

Overview

Description

Historical issues shaping national myth, vision and destiny growing out of the experience, opportunities and conflicts of American expansion to the Pacific.

Units

Lecture3

Learning Outcomes

  • write a lengthy historiographical analysis or research paper in which historiography figures prominently.
  • identify the main themes of the field in individual and group discussions.
  • analyze examples of major secondary works in the field.
  • identify and explain the following major historical themes: national myth, vision and destiny growing out of the experience, opportunities and conflicts of American expansion to the Pacific.