GEOG 330 - Historical Geography of North America

Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-UD-4; Sustainability
Historical-geographic processes of exploration, settlement, urbanization, cultural integration, land use, and resource exploitation from the 16th century to the present. Geographic and economic forces driven by migrants from Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America is emphasized.

Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-UD-4 - Upper Division Social and Behavioral Sciences, Overlay - Sustainability
Prerequisites: Completion of GE Areas 1A, 1B, 1C and GE-2 with grade C- (CR) or better (GE Areas A1, A2, A3 and B4 for students on the 2024-25 or earlier catalogs).
Strongly Recommended Preparation: Upper division status (greater than 60 earned semester units) and completion of lower division GE Area 4 requirements (Area D1-2 requirements for students on the 2024-25 or earlier catalogs).
Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground, or Hybrid, or Online Asynchronous or Online Synchronous.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice).
Course Typically Offered: Spring ONLY

Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

evaluate and discuss a major world region through 500 years of settlement geography, economic and environmental history, and resource management decisions.
identify, discuss and explain the destructive exploitation of the continent’s resource-rich environments and the public policies which encouraged it.
identify and articulate the interconnections between America’s regions during the country’s most important eras of geographic expansion, population growth, and urbanization.
list and describe key elements in America’s revolutions in transportation and communication during the first half of the 20th century.

GE-UD-4. Upper-division Social and Behavioral Sciences Learning Outcomes

analyze how power and social identity affect social outcomes for different cultural and economic groups using methods of social science inquiry and vocabulary appropriate to those methods;
demonstrate an understanding of and ability to apply accurately disciplinary concepts of the social or behavioral sciences; and
demonstrate an understanding of and ability to effectively plan or conduct research using an appropriate method of the social or behavioral sciences.

Sustainability Overlay Learning Outcomes

Discuss multiple dimensions of sustainability, including the scientific, social, cultural, and/or economic.
Analyze interactions between human activities and natural systems.
Describe strategies taken by individuals, communities, organizations, or governments for mitigating and/or adapting to key threats to environmental sustainability.