HIST 0218 - THE NORTH AMERICAN WEST

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course offers a survey of the major themes in the history of the North American West from a trans-national perspective. The class follows a rough chronology focusing on three critical and overlapping themes: 1) Cultural encounters in the West, including not only the popularly familiar interactions between Natives and European newcomers, but also among various Euro-American groups, the Spanish-speaking populations of the Southwestern borderlands, and Asian immigrants to the Pacific Coast; 2) The complex relationships between people and the environment, meaning not merely the impact of hunting, logging, mining, and city-building, but also the profound influence of the natural world on the people who lived and worked there; and 3) The cultural symbolism of the West and the Frontier, both as an enduring national icons in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, and as ideologies that shaped the colonization of the region.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis

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