1 credit
Spring 2025 Lecture Upper DivisionJEDI
The United States is a vast country encompassing many climates, geographies, and human histories. This course will investigate the diversity of the United States by examining a dozen locations with respect to people-and-place. How have people shaped these places, and how have these places shaped the people who have lived in them?
Learning Outcomes1Understand the different types of land use, especially agriculture, in different regions of the United States, and consider their sustainability.
2Investigate the cultures and agricultures of American Indian tribes prior to first contact with Europeans.
3Analyze the displacement and relocation of American Indian tribes in specific regions.
4Analyze the nature and legacies of slavery, and the means by which African Americans have been excluded from land ownership since reconstruction.
5Consider the contributions of Asian Americans to the cultures and agricultures of the United States.
6Investigate changes to the natural, built, and cultural landscapes of the United States through time.
7Consider how the sustainability of cultures, economies, environmental health, and agriculture can (or cannot) be sustained in different regions of the United States.
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