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2019-2020 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2019-2020 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

HS 3660 - History of the American West


(3)
This course will investigate the history of the American West through a variety of interpretive lenses. Prominent topics may include: relations between American Indian peoples and the Europeans and Americans who colonized their lands; sociocultural adaptation and development; issues of ethnicity, gender, race, and religion; the roles of flora and fauna in the West; the utilization of natural resources and environmental impacts; political and economic trends; American imperial expansion; urbanization; and the image of the American West in the minds of Americans and the wider world.

(HSII)