LEAP 1240 - Humanities LEAP: Humans and Nature

In this course we will seek to gain an appreciation of how nature has been understood in America, from the exploratory period of Lewis and Clark, through the scientific advances and social upheavals of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, all the way to the present day. Texts for the course will include scholarly articles, first-person narratives, fiction, poetry, and documentary film. The course aims to provide both a sense of historical scope and cultural breadth.