HIS 350 - LA American Environmental History

Institution:

Park University

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Description:

This course implements both a topical and chronological approach to the major historical issues Americans have faced through interaction with the natural environment. The major themes include, but are not limited to: Native American ecology and European contact, the rise of science, Romanticism and Transcendentalism, effects of tobacco and cotton southern soils, farm ecology in the early republic, nature versus civilization, the extraction of minerals in the west, parks and forests, Great Plains settlement, resource conservation in an industrializing society, wilderness preservation, irrigation and reclamation, urban pollution, and twentieth-century ecology. 3:0:3

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Additional Information:

Historical Version(s):

Institution Website:

www.park.edu

Phone Number:

(816) 741-2000

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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