THE AGE OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, 1763-1789

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Sophomore standing Course Designation: Core GenEd - Social & Behavioral Science Breadth - Social Science Level - Intermediate L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Explain the causes, course, and consequences of the Revolution and grasp important concepts related to its history. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Discuss the Revolution’s wide-ranging participants and their diverse aims and actions, as well as the divergent ways in which the Revolution affected different peoples in North America and the broader Atlantic World. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Analyze key scholarly interpretations of the American Revolution and its legacies. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Assess their own relationship to the historical memory of the American Revolution in the contemporary United States. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Interpret and evaluate key scholarly debates in the historiography of the American Revolution. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Explain the causes, course, and consequences of the Revolution and grasp important concepts related to its history. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Discuss the Revolution’s wide-ranging participants and their diverse aims and actions, as well as the divergent ways in which the Revolution affected different peoples in North America and the broader Atlantic World. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Analyze key scholarly interpretations of the American Revolution and its legacies. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Assess their own relationship to the historical memory of the American Revolution in the contemporary United States. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Interpret and evaluate key scholarly debates in the historiography of the American Revolution. Audience: Graduate