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Apr 03, 2026
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HIST 380 - The American West
Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-UD-3; Diversity
Human habitation and transformation of western environments from c. 15,000 BCE to present. Contending claims of sovereignty; resource extraction and economic competition; colonization; transportation, communication, and exchange; warfare and diplomacy; community formation and nation building; race, citizenship, and belonging.
Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-UD-3 - Upper Division Arts or Humanities, Overlay - Diversity
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 Area 3 requirements (lower division Area C 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: Fall ONLY
Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:
- Analyze shifting cultural and political conceptions of the American “west” as an idea and place;
- Investigate the consequences of settler colonialism for Indigenous peoples;
- Consider practices of warfare, diplomacy, and exchange as diverse peoples sought to retain or gain sovereignty;
- Examine how diverse peoples and animals have competed for resources in a complex landscape;
- Investigate unique political movements in what is now the western United States.
GE-UD-3. Upper-division Arts or Humanities Learning Outcomes
- Demonstrate an understanding of and ability to apply principles, methodologies, values systems, and thought processes employed in the arts and humanities.
- Analyze cultural production as an expression of, or reflection upon, what it means to be human.
- Demonstrate how the perspectives of the arts or humanities are used by informed, engaged, and reflective citizens to benefit local and global communities.
Diversity Overlay Learning Outcomes
- Describe the histories, experiences or views of one or more cultural groups.
- Analyze the overlap or intersection of social identities of oneself and/or other cultural groups (e.g., culture, gender, class, sexuality, religion, disability, immigration status, and/or age).
- Examine the impact of their own identity on their experiences with and/or views of other cultural groups.
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