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HIS 207
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Title: | American Environment Hist: HI1 |
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Long Title: | American Environmental History: GT-HI1 |
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Course Description: | Discovers and analyzes the relationships between Americans and their natural environments throughout the history of the United States. This course examines the development of conservation movements and environmental policies in modern America. This course focuses on developing, practicing, and strengthening skills historians use while constructing knowledge and studying a diverse set of narratives through the perspective of gender, class, religion, and ethnicity. This is a statewide Guaranteed Transfer course in the GT-HI1 category. |
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Min Credit: | 3 |
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Course Notes: | This is a unique course at PPCC |
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Origin Notes: | PPCC |
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Status Notes: | revised competencies entered 11/30/10 LK |
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| S: GTpathways added 201210 |
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General Notes: | Update GT/Desc/CLOs/TO effective 202110 |
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REQUIRED COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES:
1. Reference secondary and tertiary sources to construct knowledge and to develop context.
2. De-construct complex and multiple sources of information into basic historical concepts.
3. Recognize the impact of continuity and change of historical perspective in context of time and space in American Environmental History.
4. Develop narrative structures and arguments based on evidence.
5. Compare and contrast how peoples, groups, cultures, and institutions change over time in American Environmental History.
6. Analyze events in American Environmental History in historical context to illustrate how social, cultural, gender, race, religion, nationality, and other identities affect historical perspectives.
7. Use diverse resources for historical research, including libraries, databases, bibliographies, and archives.
8. Identify perspectives in historical interpretation using secondary sources.
9. Identify types of primary sources, their perspective, and purpose of their author.
10. Create substantive writing samples that employ critical analysis of primary and secondary sources with appropriate citations.
11. Construct knowledge by developing historical narratives from primary and secondary sources, maps, and/or artifacts.
REQUIRED TOPICAL OUTLINE:
I. Environmental history as a field of study
II. Native American ecology and European contact
III. Puritans in the wilderness
IV. Planters mine the soil
V. The ecology of yeoman farmers
VI. The American environment captures the American mind
VII. The ecology of the Cotton South
VIII. Western mining booms and busts
IX. Great Plains frontier ecology
X. Conserving the passing frontier
XI. Preserving the wilderness
XII. Progressives and the environment
XIII. The origins of human ecology
XIV. Conservation becomes Environmentalism
XV. Modern Environmentalism
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