TCCNS: [HIST2301] A survey of Texas history beginning with the Native American occupation and tracing the major social, political, and economic developments of the state into the modern era. (U.S. history) Partially fulfills core American History requirement.
SCH: 3 Hours
Students will be required to purchase the following textbooks and/or courseware. More details are available in the course syllabus:
De la Teja, Jesús, Tyler, Ron, and Young, Nancy Beck. Texas: Crossroads of North America. Boston: Cengage Learning, 2016.
Crisp, James E. Sleuthing the Alamo: Davy Crockett’s Last Stand and Other Mysteries of the Texa Revolution. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. ISBN: 978-0195163506
Jacoby, Karl. The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2016. ISBN: 978-0393354171
Cunningham, Sean P. Bootstrap Liberalism: Texas Political Culture in the Age of FDR. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2022. ISBN: 978-0700633005
The Texas Tech University Self-Paced Courses Program does not guarantee credit hour transfers, and the student is responsible for determining whether a specific course transfer will be accepted at their current campus.
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REFUND POLICY: As access to the coursework is available immediately upon enrollment, any requests to drop after enrollment has occurred will be refunded at a reduced rate, reflecting a $150 administrative fee, through the first seven (7) calendar days of coursework access, so long as the course has not been completed within that seven-day period. Refunds are not eligible for any courses that have been completed. Any requests to drop a course on or following the eighth (8th) calendar day of coursework access will not be refunded.
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