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May 19, 2026
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HIST 2000Z - Survey of United States History, 1600-1877- American Civic Literacy
This course surveys the history of the United States from the colonial era through the Civil War, with attention to the Atlantic and global contexts that shaped its development. Topics include exploration, colonization, slavery, capitalism, independence, and the struggles over liberty and equality that defined the nation’s early years. Students read and analyze key primary sources central to civic life in the United States. Using these documents, this course connects early American history to enduring debates about freedom, rights, governance, and the nation’s place in the world.
Credit Hours: 3
OHIO BRICKS: Pillar: Social or Behavioral Sciences
Thematic Arches: General Education Code (students who entered prior to Fall 2021-22): 2SS
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Course Transferability: OTM course: TMSBS Social & Behavioral Sciences, TAG course: OHS010 United States/American History Sequence, TAG course: OHS043 United States/American History I
College Credit Plus: Level 1
Term(s) Typically Offered:
Learning Outcomes: - Students will be able to identify and explain the primary terminology, concepts, and historical findings pertaining to the study of early United States history.
- Students will be able to communicate the theoretical approaches to the past and the methodologies by which historians use evidence to describe and explain the past.
- Students will be able to interpret primary sources (writings, images, and maps) from or about the early United States history and explain their relationship to the processes and context in which they were created and produced.
- Students will be able to describe how historians explain key developments in U.S. history such as European settlement, conflict with Native Americans, American Revolution, westward expansion, the dynamics of slavery, & the Civil War and its aftermath.
- Students will be able to understand and appreciate historical actors, their ideas and their beliefs and appreciate how human agency and decisions interacts with institutions and socio-economic and political processes to shape historical events & outcomes.
- Students will be able to distinguish between a reliable and an unreliable source and analyze, assess, and synthesize secondary sources that present different understandings of events or individuals.
- Students will be able to identify the values and ethical implications underlying the American experience, including concepts like freedom and E Pluribus Unum, considering how their meaning has been debated and changed over time.
- Students will be able to articulate in written and verbal form their assessment of primary and secondary sources.
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