CDL COURSE ENTRY FORM


Author: Bernice Kennedy/SUNY
Last modified by: Laura Wait/SUNY
Composed: 03/04/2004 06:01 PM
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Modified: 05/22/2017
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Course Number: (prefix) HIS (number) 243544 ESC 2.0 Course number: HIST-3380 HIST-3380Nature in American History

Name: Nature in American History
Datatel Title: (30char) Nature in American History

Area Coordinator: Eric Ball Department Code: 10CU Team: Humanities

Liberal Study? YES Level: UPPER Credits: 4 Prerequisite? NO
General Education Course? YES GenEd Approval Term/Year:

GenEd Area 1: 4. American HistoryFully or Partially: f
GenEd Area 2: Fully or Partially:



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Spring 1, Fall 1		Course will be offered (for final term listings, online registration, online bookordering, web views)
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First Term Offered: (Required Format: YearTerm - i.e., 2005SP)
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AC Changes: AC Changed from Kim Hewitt 10HI to Eric Ball 10CU effective Sept '14 term. Catalog updated 5/29/14. LWait
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Description: Explore the history of the changing relationship between American culture and its environment, especially as that relationship has been manifest physically (as "nature," the ecosystems we’ve inhabited, which have been changed by our activity) and conceptually (as "nature," a concept that has a history and evolution of its own and which has entered into the thinking of philosophers, economists, poets, artists, legislators, environmentalists, biologists, etc.) Become familiar with the main eras and episodes of American history as they relate to American culture’s grounding in nature: the European encounter with a (supposedly) virgin wilderness; the rapid exploitation of resources that accompanied westward and industrial expansion; the closing of the frontier and the development of resource conservationism; continued industrialization of the nature-culture relationship through nearly a century of war; the modern tension between economics and a concern for ecological health and balance. Through readings, discussions, writing and other study activities, learn a basic narrative of the American experience by tracing the nature-culture relation over time and trace the complex interaction between the character of that relationship and contemporaneous political, social, economic and cultural changes. Study the work and historical context of such influential thinkers as Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, Gifford Pinchot, Aldo Leopold, Theodore Roosevelt, Rachel Carson. In addition, participants will engage in a practical component of study by learning to read contemporary American landscapes for what they record of cultural, social, land-use and ecological history - a basic element of environmental literacy that has been neglected in our era.

This course fully meets the General Education requirement in American History.

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Major Course Area
Historical Studies		Minor Course Area
Environmental Studies, History and Civilizations		SLN Disciplines
History
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genedcode for dpplanner: 4^f~8

genedfull area for dpplanner: American History