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Hello GC Students!

My name is Dr. Chase Machen and I will be your instructor for this History 1301 course. If this is your first online course, don't worry, we'll get through this without too much injury and if you're a repeat offender to this environment you shouldn't have any worries. The first thing everyone needs to do is become familiar with the course site and where everything is located. This will be particularly important for students since this may be the first time for many of you to take an Internet course. It is imperative that students become familiar with the location of all course information, applications, and tools.

So . . . your first thing to do is simply click on the "Start Here" button and view the Course Introduction Video. Then tackle that first assignment that introduces you to the course . . . the "Academic Integrity / Syllabus Statement" assignment.

Course Description: United States History I is a survey of the social, political, economic, cultural, and intellectual history of the United States from the pre-Columbian era to the Civil War/Reconstruction period. United States History I includes the study of pre-Columbian, colonial, revolutionary, early national, slavery and sectionalism, and the Civil War/Reconstruction eras. Themes that may be addressed in United States History I include: American settlement and diversity, American culture, religion, civil and human rights, technological change, economic change, immigration and migration, and creation of the federal government.