Ramowy program studiów
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Informacje ogólne
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Nazwa zajęć |
Historia USA |
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Kod zajęć |
FA-1-6,6,19-20 |
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Status zajęć |
Obowiązkowy |
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Wydział / Instytut |
Instytut Humanistyczno - Społeczny |
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Kierunek studiów |
filologia angielska |
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Moduł specjalizacyjny |
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Specjalizacja |
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Poziom studiów |
studia pierwszego stopnia |
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Profil |
Praktyczny |
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Osoba odpowiedzialna za program zajęć |
mgr Michael Pacholka |
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Wymagania (Kompetencje wstępne) |
Students are at a B1 / B2 level of English language competence. |
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Założenia i cele zajęć |
Give students an understanding of American history and how it relates to current American events and increase their vocabularic range in matters pertaining to American history and current events. |
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Prowadzący zajęcia |
mgr Michael Pacholka |
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Egzaminator/ Zaliczający |
mgr Michael Pacholka |
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Nakład pracy studenta - bilans punktów ECTS
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Efekty uczenia się
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Formy i metody kształceniaStudent - student Teacher - student Student - teacher |
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Treści programowe
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1. Pre-European America; First Nations’ Creation myths; arrival of the Europeans (the ‘dog people’); Smallpox; early English settlements.
2. The Jamestown settlement; Powhatan; John Smith; Pocahontas; The John Smith – Pocahontas ‘failed myth’; Opechancanough; the Pilgrims and the Plymouth settlement.
3. The Massachusetts Settlement—Boston: John Winthrop, the Massachusetts Covenant: Beacon to the World ; birth of American Exceptionalism.
4. 1622—VA. Indian uprising; East-Coast Indian settlements and divisions; Deganawida and the Iroquois Confederacy; Iroquois expansion and Algonquin contraction; Early First Nations extinctions; Nathaniel Bacon (1675).
5. Bacon’s Rebellion, the burning of Jamestown; the beginnings of Black slavery; Indian – White separation.
6. New France; Encirclement: the perceived French threat; the French – Indian War (Seven Years’ War (1756 – 1763); Proclamation Line of 1763; Navigation Acts; Mercantilism; American – British antagonisms.
7. Drift towards Independence; War of independence.
8. Constitutional Convention; the Constitution; the Bill of Rights; ratification; Alexander Hamilton and the continental vision. 9. Jefferson and Hamilton’ Louisiana Purchase (and the beginnings of Empire); Lewis and Clark; Andrew Jackson; Indian Expulsion (Trail of Tears); John C. Calhoun and the Nullification Crises; drift towards Civil War.
10. Slave / Anti-slave / Abolitionist movements; Slaveocracy; election of Lincoln; Civil War.
11. The Civil War and its aftermath; Reconstruction; Jim Crow; western expansion.
12. Rise of the Robber Barons; Rise of Big Labour; Late 19th century – early 20th century; Teddy Roosevelt; Spanish-American War, the Philippines; WWI; Woodrow Wilson; American economic colonialism.
13. The 20th century from WWI; Corruption. Tammany Hall; Immigration: WWII; the Cold War; Eisenhower and the Military-Industrial Complex.
14. 9/11 and post 9/11 America.
15. Trumpism and post-Trumpism.
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Students are to prepare, alone or in pairs (in exceptional cases a group of three will be permitted), shortish presentations (25 - 45 minutes), accompanied by appropriate A-V material, on some topic relating to some aspect or aspects of American history or American current events. Attendance is compulsory, which is to say only two absences are permitted. Topic List: The European Invasion / Conquest of the Native Peoples / Extinction of the Native Peoples.
John Smith and Pocahontas –the story and the myth.
The Jamestown Settlement.
The Massachusetts Settlement.
American Exceptionalism.
Bacon’s Rebellion.
The French – Indian War—Prelude to Independence.
The American Revolution: What was revolutionary about it?
The Constitutional Convention: The Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and Ratification.
Alexander Hamilton and the Continental Vision.
Manifest Destiny.
The Louisiana Purchase.
Exceptional Early Americans: Franklin, Washington, Jefferson, Hamilton, etc.
North and South.
The Texas – Mexico War.
The Civil War and its aftermath.
Westward Expansion.
The Myth of the Westward.
The Lure of the Frontier as Founding myth.
The Robber Barons and the Gilded Age.
World War I
The Spanish-American War and the Beginnings of an American Empire.
The Panama Canal, and its role in Empire Building.
The Great Migration.
WWII: The War against Japan.
Iraq.
9/11 The Trump years.
Other: Students may choose a topic not associated with any of the above, but this must first be cleared with the instructor.
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Kryteria oceny osiągniętych efektów uczenia się
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Kryteria oceny efektów uczenia się osiągniętych przez studenta |
Preparation and presentation of an adequate in-class A-V-accompanied project, on a topic of the student’s choice, though cleared first with the instructor, as well as participation in presentations given by others.
Successful completion of a take-home exam relating to material presented during lectures, and a short oral exam relating to presentations and to some topic relating to American history or current American events (which oral topics will be given out before hand).
A grade of 5 will be granted to students who have a very good knowledge of American history and current American events, are able to to engage in and understand perfectly, or almost perfectly, discussions pertaining to American history and current events, and who fully understand the importance of participation in aspects of the American historical heritage.
A grade of 4 will be granted to students who have a good knowledge of American history and current events, are able to engage in and understand discussions pertaining to American history and current events, and who understand well the importance of participation in aspects of the American historical heritage.
A grade of 3 will be granted to students who have an adequate knowledge of American history and current events, are able adequately to engage in and understand discussions pertaining to American history and current events, and who understand more or less the importance of participation in aspects of the American historical heritage. A grade of 2 will be given to students who have an inadequate knowledge of American history and current events, are unable adequately to engage in and understand discussions pertaining to American history and current events, and who do not have an adequate understanding of the importance of participation in aspects of the American historical heritage.
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Forma weryfikacji osiągnięć studenta i warunki zaliczenia zajęć
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Forma weryfikacji osiągnięć studenta |
Zaliczenie i egzamin |
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Warunki odbywania i zaliczenia zajęć oraz dopuszczenia do końcowego egzaminu (zaliczenia z oceną) |
Student presentations will count for 40% of the final grade, the take-home exam will count for 40% of the final grade, and the oral exam will count for 20% of the final grade. Students' language level should now be at, or approaching, B2. |
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Wymiar, zasady i forma odbywania praktyk zawodowych
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Wymiar, zasady i forma odbywania praktyk zawodowych |
Not applicable. |