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Apr 27, 2024
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HIST 5060 - American Environmental History
A survey of the evolution, from 1492 to the present, of American attitudes toward and interactions with the natural world, including such topics as the Columbian Exchange, romanticism, the Western frontier, conservation, the “land ethic,” and environmental policy in the 1960s and 1970s.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Graduates will have a general familiarity with the intellectual, political, economic, social, and cultural history of the United States.
- Students will become critical readers of both primary and secondary sources, and will use and properly cite both types of evidence in their written work.
- Students will master the formal styles of writing, argumentation, and presentation that historians use in their work.
- Students will understand historiography.
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