Student Learning Outcomes

• Students will be able to explain and evaluate the story of America's westward advance as part of the wider story of the development of the American nation and its democracy.
• Analyze how different historians have assessed the history of the American West and its influence upon the development of the American nation and democracy.
• Using both primary and secondary sources, students will be able to determine and critically analyze competing perspectives on the history, culture, and society of the American West.