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Summer 2015
Apr 19, 2024 |
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| HIST 24000 - AMERICN ENVRONMNTAL HIST:CA,UD |
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AMERICAN ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY;CA,UD~
This course will introduce students to the history of environmental issues and environmental activism in North America. Students will consider how Native Americans interacted with the natural environment prior to the European arrival; how the Europeans who entered North America looked upon the natural environment and how their views and practices differed from those of the Native Americans; and how the European settlement in North America affected the natural environment. Students will also explore how the growth of industrial capitalism and westward expansion affected the natural environments, and how Americans view the "wilderness" and the environment in the nineteenth century. Finally, students will explore the rise of a conservation movement and social activism to protect and preserve the environment, and they will study closely the rise and growth of a modern environmental movement in the late twentieth century.
This course fulfills either the Social and Cultural Analysis requirement OR the Understanding Diversity in the USA requirement, but not both.
Also offered as Environmental Studies 24000.
4.000 Credit hours 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture History Department Course Attributes: Social/Cultural Analysis Meth, Understanding Diversity Home, X-listed with Environmental St |
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