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HIST 23800 - the American West

Course Credit: 1
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]