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2018-2019 Catalogue 
    
2018-2019 Catalogue [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

HIST 23800 - The American West

Course Credit: 1
THE AMERICAN WEST This course examines the development of the American West as a recognized region over the past 500 years. It focuses on several primary themes: ideologies of expansion, ethnic conflict, environmental change, technology, politics, and myth. Moreover, the course will examine how ­shifting historical interpretations of the West (including those of novelists and filmmakers) have reflected contemporary society. [HSS]