Fall 2019 Course Syllabi

2 Tentative Course Outline: Date Topic Text/Resources Week 1 Course Introduction, Using LMS, Syllabus Writing for a History class Instructor provided Week 2 A New World The Atlantic World; theories on “discovery,” (M) Discovery (W) Maps (F) Quiz 1 Week 3 Geography and Topography (M )Leonard, Maps (W) Trofanenko (F) In Class Assignment 1 Week 4 Geology of the plains (M) Robinson, Chapter 1; (W) Angie Bartholomay Local Flora and Fauna (F) Wishart. (online BB) http://plainshumanities.unl.edu/encyclopedia/doc/egp.ag.001 Week 5 A New Frontier Trade, Power Settlement (M) Robinson, Chapter 2 (W )Skinner (F) Sundstrom Quiz 2 Week 6 Recording the Past (M) Robinson, Chapter 6, In Class 2 (W) Community Collecting/Local Museums (F) Willoughby Week 7 Women on the Plains (M)Online BB (W) Images of the Prairie (F) Midterm Week 8 Pioneer Life (M) Robinson, Chapter 8 (W )Bottineau Currant Excerpts/ Interpreting the Past (F) Online BB Readings Week 9 Eating the Dakota Way (M)Pioneer Cooking (M) (W)Cookbooks as Historical Artifact (W) (F) Let’s Eat! (F) In Class 3 Week 10 Making a Modern Society Industrial and Market Revolutions (M) Industrial Revolution in America (W) Mechanization of Agriculture, Pierce Readings (F) Quiz 3 Week 11 The Railroad (M) Transcontinental Railroad PBS Documentary (W) Fraga (F) Pierce 2 Week 12 Agricultural History and History of Science (M) World’s Fairs and International Expositions (W) ND at the Fairs (F) Sabol Week 13 Dakota College at Bottineau (M) History and Origins (W) Evolution and change (Instructor Provided) (F) DCB Today, In Class 4 Week 14 Wildlife (M) Furbearing and the frontier economy (W) Common animals of the Great Plains (F) Quiz 4 Week 15 Notable North Dakotans (M) Louis L’Amour (W) Zoe Beiler, Grace French (F) Wiz Khalifa, Josh Duhamel Week 16 Review and Final Wrap Up (M) In Class text review (W) Final Prompts (F) Final Review Final Exam : Check Final Exam Schedule when released.