Welcome, Spring 2011 students!
by Dr. H - December 22nd, 2010
This is the course website for Tona Hangen’s sections of US History II at Worcester State (HI 112-02 and HI 112-H2) meeting in Room S-105, MWF at 9:30 in the Spring 2011 semester.
I used this site for the Fall 2010 section also, and I plan to leave that work in place as a reference for those students. I’ve tagged all their posts with “Fall10.” Spring 2011 students can safely ignore anything that was written before this message (12/22/10), since I’ll re-post new information for your sections as we go along.
The required books for Spring 2011 are:
Shi and Mayer, For the Record: Documentary History of America, Volume 2. 4th ed (Norton, 2010) – ISBN 9780393934045
Davidson, Experience History, Volume 2. 7th ed (McGraw-Hill, 2011) – ISBN 9780077368326
In addition, I highly recommend that you own a copy of Diana Hacker, A Writer’s Reference (ISBN 978 0312450257). This should have been assigned in your English Comp class, and will be a handy reference book for the writing you will do in this class and throughout your college years. The section on Chicago Style (CMS) will help you with history-style footnotes and citation. In addition, I often find myself referring students back to her “Glossary of usage” and her advice on eliminating passive tense. While the Hacker is not a required text, I do assume that all my students have a copy and that they can make use of it. It is available in the university bookstore every semester.
