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Master
Course Outline
HIST 205
American Environmental History
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| Credits: 5 |
Clock Hours per Quarter: 50
AA Discipline: [Social Sciences]
Lecture Hours:50
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Description
Explores the natural environment and its role throughout American history with special emphasis upon the ways in which different cultural groups have perceived, used, and managed America's natural environment from pre-colonial America to the present. Examines changing attitudes and behaviors toward nature with specific attention to conservation and preservation and the consciousness that has contributed to the American environmental movement. Recommended: READ 088 or higher. |
Intended Learning Outcomes
Appreciate the historical aspects of how contemporary society has come to regard its natural environment.
Apply critical reasoning and communication skills in noting connections between how past perceptions of the land and its use have contributed to present environmental challenges and opportunities.
Become functionally literate with many of the concepts and historical developments necessary to understand the contemporary discussions surrounding our natural environment.
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Course Topics
The American environment and Native-European encounters
The New England wilderness transformed
The tobacco and cotton south
Nature and the market economy
Settlement of the western frontier
Urban environments
Conservation and preservation
Indian land policy
The rise of ecology
Environmentalism and globalization
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Syllabi
Listing
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Instructor |
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| HIST 205 |
Spring 2013 |
1519 |
John Van Slyke |
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| HIST 205 |
Spring 2011 |
1262 |
John Van Slyke |
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Two Year Projected Schedule
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Two** |
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Winter |
Spring |
Summer |
Mini |
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Winter |
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Summer |
Mini |
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*If fall quarter starts on an odd year (2003, 2005, etc.), it's Year One.
**If fall quarter starts on an even year (2002, 2004, etc.), it's Year Two.
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