AMST 404 - Americans and Nature (3)

Prerequisite: AMST 201 or completion of G.E. Category D.3. Examines shifting attitudes toward the natural environment among a range of Americans over time, from native inhabitants and early colonists to rural and urban dwellers today. Topics include agrarian expansion, industrialization, transcendentalism, tourism, humans’ roles in “natural” disasters and the history of environmental activism.