The history of humanity's influence on the plants, animals, microlife, soils, water, and air of North America, and vice versa, from the arrival of the proto-Indians to the contemporary environmental crisis. Partially fulfills legislative requirement for American history. 529S, 629S, 729S, 829S, 929S. Topics in American Studies. This course is used to record credit the student earns while enrolled at another institution in a program administered by the University's Study Abroad Office. Credit is recorded as assigned by the study abroad adviser in the Department of American Studies.
Transfer credit is awarded for work in an affiliated studies program.
May be repeated for credit when the topics vary. Modernism in American Design and Architecture. A historical survey of artifacts, buildings, and urban environments, focusing on responses to machine-age civilization. Art, Photography, and Culture of the American West to 1880. The image and history of the West as seen through the eyes of early explorers, artists, and scientists.