HIST 38000 - American Environmental History

Prerequisite(s): HIST 10400 FOR LEVEL UG WITH MIN. GRADE OF D- OR HIST 11000 FOR LEVEL UG WITH MIN. GRADE OF D- OR HIST 15100 FOR LEVEL UG WITH MIN. GRADE OF D- OR HIST 15200 FOR LEVEL UG WITH MIN. GRADE OF D-

Credit Hours: 3.00. This class will focus on how and why Americans living at particular times and places used and transformed their environment. Examining such familiar topics as colonization, the frontier, the industrial revolution, slavery, the Civil War, and the emergence of modern-day consumer culture, the class will show how the interaction of Americans with the natural world has influenced the development of a distinctive society. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.

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