HI 125: U.S. Environmental History

Program
Semester Hours 3
Description
This course will focus on the human impact on the environment since colonial times, the progress of the environmental ethic in American culture, from its roots in the Hudson River School and Thoreau to Rachel Carson and Aldo Leopold, and the development of legal environmental protections.
Course Learning Outcomes
  1. Knowledge of the impact of agriculture and industrialization on the environment
  2. Knowledge of the leaders of environmentalism
  3. Knowledge of the current cultural and legal state of environmental ethics environment
Semester
Special Rotation