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HUM 137
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Title: | Wilderness & American Ethic |
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Long Title: | Wilderness and The American Ethic |
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Course Description: | Presents historical and ethical views of the wilderness. Topics include the history of the wilderness movement and ways contemporary views of nature have shaped man¿s association with the wilderness. |
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Min Credit: | 3 |
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Status Notes: | Offered at Colorado Mountain College. |
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Course Notes: | Changed Title and added Competencies and Topical Outline. |
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STANDARD COMPETENCIES:
A. Appreciation of the wilderness as a shaper of the American point-of-view.
B. Understanding of U.S. and world history as having been shaped in part by physical surroundings.
C. Understanding of the role of mythology as a route to understanding the primitive world.
D. Understanding that art and literature have been influenced by wilderness.
E. Knowledge of philosophy as it attempts to explain the physical world.
F. Understanding of place in nature.
G. Knowledge of the role of wilderness in modern society.
H. Understanding of modern management practices for wilderness.
I. Written communications ability through the presentation of term papers.
TOPICAL OUTLINE:
I. Wilderness Management
A. Major concept of USFS, NPS and BLM
B. Wilderness Act of 1964
1. Historical process
2. Philosophical direction
II. Reading from Nature Writers
A. John Muir
B. Aldo Leopold
C. Rachel Carson
D. Henry David Thoreau
E. Edward Abby
III. Eastern vs. Western wilderness philosophy
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