GEOG 250 - U/American Landscapes

Institution:

SUNY College at Geneseo

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Description:

An appreciation of the American cultural landscape between its pivotal transition from regional folk norms to the chronologies of national popular culture in the nineteenth century and thence to the varied landscape impacts of the automobile in twentieth century American society. While the course emphasizes material-cultural features, the built landscape, it also explores landscape as a theme in literature, the visual arts, and advertising. When you have completed this course, you will be able to read and interpret the roadside landscape systematically and will be familiar with the wide range of field, archival, secondary, and Web resources that help to explain our visible and relatively re- Basic Requirements: 22 semester hours Students will be required to take: GEOG 102 Human Geography; GEOG 110 Physical Geography; and GEOG 291 Cartography (10 credit hours total/mandatory courses). Of the remaining 12 credit hours required in Geography (4 courses), at least 6 credit hours must be at the 300-level. The Bachelor of Arts degree program can be planned so that New York State initial certification requirements are met (see School of Education program description). cent built past. Credits: 3(3-0).

Credits:

6.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.geneseo.edu/

Phone Number:

(585) 245-5211

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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