| Program Detail |
: This course focuses on the American environment and the ways in which different cultural groups (including American Indians, Europeans, and African Americans) have perceived, used, managed, and conserved it from colonial times to the present. The course examines natural resource development, including gathering, hunting, fishing, farming, mining, ranching, forestry, and urbanization, and studies changes in attitudes and behaviors toward nature, as well as past and present conservation and environmental movements.
This course satisfies the American Cultures requirement at the University of California at Berkeley and is based on a course taught each fall on the UC Berkeley campus. UC Berkeley campus students (upon approval of their Dean), transfer students wanting to fulfill certain requirements before coming to the Berkeley campus, distance-learning students, and members of the general public with a personal or professional interest in American environmental and cultural studies are all invited to participate.
Students enrolling in this course should have already completed approximately two years of college-level work or the equivalent. |
