HIST1045 — Environmental History of the United States
HIST 1045 - Environmental History of the United States HIST 1045 - Environmental History of the United States Hours/Week: Lecture 3 Lab 0 Internship hours per week 0 Course Description: This course surveys the complex relationship between the natural environment and human settlements in the United States from pre-colonial times into the present. It focuses on how the natural environment has shaped human settlements, how humans have restructured the natural world, and how humans’ interactions with nature have affected their relations with one another. Topics include colonialism, market economies, race, gender, class, industrialization, the role of the government, and cultural attitudes toward the environment. MnTC Goals Goal 5 History/Social/Behavioral, Goal 10 People/Environment What is Environmental History? 2. The Natural Environment of Indigenous America 3. Germs and Horses in the Spanish West 4. Changing the Land in Colonial New England 5. Tobacco and Rice in the Colonial South 6. Farms and Markets in the Early Republic 7. The Environment and Society of the Cotton South 8. Exploitation and Extraction in the Nineteenth-Century West 9. Urban Environments in the Age of Industrialization 10. Conservationism and Preservationism in the Progressive Era 11. Dust, Water, Trees: Environmental Transformations in the New Deal Era 12. Fallout, Pollution, and Sprawl: An Emerging Environmental Consciousness after WWII 13. Environmentalist Movements after 1965 14. Anti-Environmentalist M
Prerequisites: ENGL0950, RDNG0940, RDNG0950, ENGL0090, ESOL0051, ESOL0052