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HU Credits:
2
Degree/Cycle:
1st degree (Bachelor)
Responsible Department:
History
Semester:
1st Semester
Teaching Languages:
Hebrew
Campus:
Mt. Scopus
Course/Module Coordinator:
Prof. Menahem Blondheim
Ms. Rachel Funtowitz
Coordinator Office Hours:
Tuesday, 4:00-6:00, 6623 (Humanities bldg.)
Teaching Staff:
Prof Menahem Blondheim
Course/Module description:
The course offers an introductory survey of the history of North America. It begins with the settlement of the first Europeans in the New World, traces the development of the colonies through the establishment of the United States of America and its early years. We will analyze key dimensions of the American experience, including social and economic, political and ideological, communicative and cultural processes in the history of North America.
Course/Module aims:
The United States today is a super-power shaping the political and economic world order, as well as ideological, social and cultural processes worldwide. The course intends to provide insight into the American way by tracing its history. A secondary objective of the course is to provide students with basic knowledge and analytical tools that would serve more advanced inquiries into the American experience.
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
Learning outcomes :
On successful completion of this module,
students should be able to : Understand the historical process shaping the first "new" ntion; identify major patterns and processes uderlying the American experience; recognize historical forces that brought America to the role of world hegemeon.
Attendance requirements(%):
to be explained in the first meeting.
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
class lectures and discussions, unguided-reading according to the reading list.
Course/Module Content:
1.The American experience between past and present
2.A new world and the meaning of its discovery
3.Push and Pull: Early settlement in Virginia
4.Social and political institutions of early settlement
5.New England’s Puritan theocracy
6.Red, white, and black
7.Slavery as an American institution
8.Agriculture and Trade in the web of mercantilism
9.Britain and its colonies on the slippery slope
10.The Whig ideology and the American Revolution
11. The Revolutionary Ideology and the Shaping of the Federal System
12.Jacksonian Democracy as an age of ambiguity
13.The Transportation, Press, and Communication revolutions
14.Towards the big bang
Required Reading:
See Hebrew reading list. The teaching staff will recommend parallel reading materials in English upon request.
Additional Reading Material:
recommendations available upon request
Grading Scheme :
Additional information:
Ms. Rachel Funtowitz
email:
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