This is a fixed-date course which is scheduled to begin on February 15, 2000. Enrollments will be accepted until March 31, 2000. Students must complete the course by September 30, 2000.   To request notification of the next section opening please complete our information form.

Winner of University of California Berkeley's Educational Initiatives Award for 2000.

The course focuses on the American environment and the ways in which different cultural groups (including American Indians, Europeans, and African Americans) have perceived, used, managed, and conserved it from colonial times to the present. The course examines natural resource development, including gathering, hunting, fishing, farming, mining, ranching, forestry, and urbanization, and studies changes in attitudes and behaviors toward nature, as well as past and present conservation and environmental movements.

• SANDRA MARBURG, Ph.D., Lecturer, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management at the University of California, Berkeley; co-author of EcoManagement (1993), Innovations-Oekologie (1992), Eco-Auditing and Ecologically Conscious Management (1992).
   
• Course Fee: $455 (edp
826040)
 
• Internet access required
   
• Online Resource Fee: $50
   
• Required Textbooks:
  
• Atlas of American History, (Rand McNally, 1999).
• Major Problems in American Environmental History, Merchant, (Houghton Mifflin, 1993).
   
• Textbooks for this course are available from Specialty Books. To order, call (800) 466-1365 or go to our Online Bookstore at http://www.specialty-books.com/ucbooks.

This upper-division course satisfies the American Cultures requirement at UC Berkeley.