History 2111 is a survey of the experiences of the peoples who met and made a human
habitat in North America from the first settlement of the Eastern woodlands, over
2000 years ago, to the end of the Civil War in the United States. Some of you will
find your ancestors in this story. Some of you or your families came to this country
long after the events we will describe were distant memories. Whether you are old
stock or new blood, you share in the legacy of triumph and tragedy that is American
history. 

Above all, our aim, as in all humanities courses, is to promote critical thinking.
This does not mean being critical of everything and everybody. It means learning to
arrive at conclusions through gathering and weighing of evidence, logical argument,
and listening to counter argument. We follow the golden rule to treat others in the
class as you would wish to be treated. We learn from one another.

Students will be evaluated/graded according to how well they do on assigned essay and
multiple question exams, quizzes, and history essays and or research papers.

The course syllabus is a general plan for the course; deviations announced to the
class by the instructor may be necessary. 
	
This is a sample topical outline from a large HIST 2111 survey course:

Week One: The Why and Wherefore of History. The First Americans. Read AP, 3-34;
  Sensory Worlds, introduction

Week Two: Competition for Empire Begins. The First Colonies. Read AP, 35-68; Sensory
  Worlds, ch. 1. First exam 

Week Three: Later Seventeenth Century Settlements. The Critical Period of Early
  American History. Read AP, 69-134; Sensory Worlds, ch.2 

Week Four: Provincial Society and Culture. The Economics and Government of Empire.
  Read AP, 135-182; Sensory Worlds, ch. 3. Second exam

Week Five: The Causes of Resistance. A People's War. 

Week Six: The Glories and Perils of Republicanism. Founding the Federal System. 

Week Seven: The Party Begins. The Age of Political Ideologies. Jeffersonian Politics
  in Peace and War. 

Week Eight: The Transformation of American Society and Politics. Markets and
  Mobility.
 
Week Nine: The Second Party System. Reforms and Reactions.
 
Week Ten: The South as a Region. Slavery. 

Week Eleven: Gone West. The Internal Competition for Empire. 

Week Twelve: Sections and Crises. The Cutting of the Ties that Bound the Nation. 

Week Thirteen: The War Comes. Impressions of War. 

Week Fourteen:  The Unfinished Revolution?