Maricopa Community Colleges  HIS203   2009 Spring - 9999

Official Course Description: MCCCD Approval: 10-28-2008

HIS203  2009 Spring - 9999

LEC  3.0 Credit(s)  3.0 Period(s)  3.0 Load  Acad

African-American History to 1865

History and cultural heritage of African-Americans from their beginnings in Ancient Africa through the experience of chattel slavery in the Americas to their eventual emancipation and participation in the American Civil War.

Prerequisites: None.

 

Course Attribute(s):

General Education Designation: Cultural Diversity - [C]

General Education Designation: Historical Awareness - [H]

General Education Designation: Social and Behavioral Sciences - [SB]

 

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MCCCD Official Course Competencies:

 

 

HIS203  2009 Spring - 9999

African-American History to 1865

 

1.

Describe the relevance of African-American history for African-Americans and for other Americans. (I)

2.

Trace the origin and development of humans in Africa. (II)

3.

Describe the migrations of modern humans to Europe, Asia, and the Americas. (II)

4.

Identify and describe the Nile Valley civilizations. (III)

5.

Identify and describe the major western Sudanic civilizations. (IV)

6.

Describe the Moorish Empire in Spain, and explain the significance of Moorish education and scholarship.(V)

7.

Identify and describe Moorish influences in the arts and sciences. (V)

8.

Identify and describe the major factors that contributed to the fall of Pre-Colonial African societies.(VI)

9.

Trace the early presence of Africans in the Americas and describe their influence on the cultures of Mexico, Central and South America. (VII)

10.

Trace the history and the development of the European slave trade. (VIII)

11.

Trace the resistance to slave trade, and describe the factors involved in the closing of the slave trade. (VIII)

12.

Describe pre/Civil War conditions, and trace the role of African-Americans in the Civil War. (IX)

 

 

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MCCCD Official Course Outline:

 

 

HIS203  2009 Spring - 9999

African-American History to 1865

 

I. Relevance of African-American History

A. For African-Americans

1. Self-Knowledge and understanding

2. Role models

3. Identity questions

4. Cultural crisis questions

B. For Other Americans

1. Corrective for racist myths and stereotypes

2. Elimination of historical amnesia

II. Human Origins/Africa

A. Eastern and Southern Africa

B. Cradle of Early Man (Homo erectus)

C. Cradle of Modern Man (Homo sapiens)

D. Dispersions migrations

III. Nile Valley Civilizations

A. Nubia/Ethiopia

B. Kemet/Egypt

C. Golden Ages of African History

1. 6000 B.C.E. to 525 B.C.E. ( First Classical Period)

2. 525 B.C.E. to 641 A.D. (Second Classical Period)

3. 641 A.D. to 1600 A.D. (Third Classical Period)

IV. Western Sudanic Civilizations

A. Ancient Ghana

B. Mali

C. Songhay

D. Other states and empires

V. Moorish Empire in Spain (711 A.D. to 1492 A.D.)

A. Spain's First Golden Age

B. Moorish influences in arts and sciences

C. Moorish education and scholarship

VI. Fall of "Pre-Colonial" African Societies

A. Conditions

B. Events

VII. African Presence in the Americas

A. Early migrations

1. Mexico

2. Central America

3. South America B Early influences

VIII. European Slave Trade

A. Misconceptions related to trade

B. Basis for trade

C. Impacts of trade

D. Dehumanization system

E. Colonial and domestic slavery

F. Resistance to slavery

G. Closing of slavery

IX. Civil War

A. Pre/Post Civil War Conditions

B. Reconstruction

C. African-American Participation

1. Civil War

2. Rebuilding of South

D. Migration and Urbanization

1. Causes

2. Impact

 

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