Courses As a part of the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Project, faculty and graduate students are encouraged to offer new upper-level undergraduate classes, perhaps devoted to original research, through their respective departments. These classes are designed to fall under the conceptual umbrella of the exploration, acquisition, and development of the American West. Spring 2003 - ANTH 368: Colonizations of the American West
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Frank Papovich In this course will examine a number of texts that highlight the landscapes, cultures, and modes of thinking-especially the imaginativethat were major components of the journey of the Corps of Northwest Discovery and the Journals of Lewis and Clark . While we will read broadly in the Journals , we will spend most of our time considering their resonance in modern and contemporary literature set the Great Plains, the Northern Rockies, and the Pacific Northwest. Authors will likely include Willa Cather, Wallace Stegner, A.B. Guthrie, Larry McMurtry, James Welch, Scott Momaday, and William Kittredge among others.
Janet Herman In this bicentennial year of the Lewis and Clark expedition, we will use their route to guide our exploration of the geology and hydrology of the western U.S., and, like John Wesley Powell, we will use the watershed as a unifying concept of the landscape. We will consider the geological history of North America in the context of how various terrains of the West formed: the High Plains, the Yellowstone region, the Snake River Plain, the Columbia Plateau, and the Cascade Mountains. We will look at processes that modify the landscape, including the action of glaciers and of rivers. We will investigate the environmental impact humans have had on the landscape that Lewis and Clark first described for us, especially how dams have changed rivers and watersheds. | |
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