Student Learning Outcomes

• Students will be able to identify and evaluate major agents of change/reform in California History · Students will be able to assess and explain the repeating patterns of population rushes that characterize the history of California.
• Students will understand the difference between misinformation, opinion, and substantiated scholarly theories about California History. They will identify and describe the contours of debates regarding the evolution of the historiography about California’s indigenous populations over time.
• Students will recognize and articulate the diversity of human cultural expression, such as religion, ethnicity, language, sex, orientation, and gender, by comparing different historical perspectives in California history. [PLO 1,5]
• Students will compose logically organized, argument-driven historical analysis that are informed by secondary sources and justified by references to primary sources [PLO 1,2,3,4]