2008-09 Catalog 
    
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2008-09 Catalog [Archived Catalog]

HIS 358 - The American West

(4 credits, alternate years, consult department)
General Education Requirement / Option: (American history)

The course focuses on the historical development of that portion of the continental United States west of the Mississippi River. Themes considered will include the frontier thesis, regionalism, Indian and white relations, social and economic patterns of western development, women, ethnic and racial minorities, religion and the West as cultural myth.

Prerequisites: HIS101 and 150 or permission of instructor.