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HIST 1035 - Minnesota History

Credits: 3
Hours/Week: Lecture 3 Lab 0
Internship hours per week 0
Course Description: This course surveys the social, political, and economic histories of Minnesota from pre-colonial times into the present. It focuses both on the historical events and features that have made Minnesota unique, and how Minnesota fits into the larger trends within American history.  Topics include the Indigenous peoples of Minnesota, Euro-American settlement, economic development, political protest and reform movements, racial exclusion, and the changing demographics of the state.
MnTC Goals
5 History/Social/Behavioral Science, 9 Ethical/Civic Responsibility

Prerequisite(s): Course placement into college-level English and Reading OR completion of ENGL 0950  with a grade of C or higher OR completion of RDNG 0940  with a grade of C or higher and qualifying English Placement Exam OR completion of RDNG 0950  with a grade of C or higher and ENGL 0090  with a grade of C or higher OR completion of ESOL 0051  with a grade of C or higher and ESOL 0052  with a grade of C or higher.
Corequisite(s): None
Recommendation: None

Major Content
  1. Indigenous Minnesota before 1600
  2. The Ojibwe, French, and the Fur Trade
  3. Settler Expansion and Land Cessions
  4. Territorial Minnesota and Statehood
  5. The U.S.-Dakota Conflict
  6. Nineteenth-Century Immigration
  7. Resource Extraction, Industrialization, and the Railroads
  8. Reform and Protest at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
  9. Racial Exclusion in Minnesota
  10. Depression and War
  11. Suburbanization and Postwar Growth
  12. Protest Movements of the 1960s and 1970s
  13. Deindustrialization and Economic Change after 1970
  14. Immigration and Diversification after 1970

Learning Outcomes
At the end of this course, students will be able to:

  1. interpret the history of Minnesota by making connections between significant events, people, movements, and ideas in the past.
  2. use historical thinking to make connections between the history of Minnesota and the present.  
  3. assess the relevance and limitations of primary and secondary sources.
  4. formulate a historical argument.
  5. explain their civic and ethical responsibilities with respect to contemporary social issues and political ideas.

Minnesota Transfer Curriculum (MnTC): Goals and Competencies
Competency Goals (MnTC Goals 1-6)
05. 01. Employ the methods and data that historians and social and behavioral scientists use to investigate the human condition.
05. 02. Examine social institutions and processes across a range of historical periods and cultures.
05. 03. Use and critique alternative explanatory systems or theories.
Theme Goals (MnTC Goals 7-10)
09. 03. Analyze and reflect on the ethical dimensions of legal, social, and scientific issues.
09. 04. Recognize the diversity of political motivations and interests of others.
09. 05. Identify ways to exercise the rights and responsibilities of citizenship.



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