This study guide outlines step-by-step requirements for 18 sequential units of an independent, self-directed learning course on American Civilization offered at St. Louis Community College at Meramec. For each unit the guide lists in appropriate order assigned and supplementary readings with accompanying study questions, taped lectures, recordings, film strips, film loops, and study sheets. The guide's introduction outlines test requirements, including unit quizzes administered at the college's independent study laboratory and an interpretive essay to be completed at the end of unit 18. Topics covered in the course include Europe from the end of the Middle Ages up to the discovery of the New World, early colonization of America, New England and Puritanism, the Age of Enlightenment, Life in mid-18th Century, the American Revolution, the United States Constitution, the Missouri Constitution, Romanticism and Transcendentalism, Abolitionism, the Lincoln Administration, the Gilded Age, Populism, Wilson and World War I, the Great Depression, and Post World War II America. The study guide concludes with a glossary of terms. (JP)