2012 - 2013 Undergraduate Catalog | American Studies Minor

AM ST 390R : Topics in American Studies. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

DESCRIPTION:

Multidisciplinary study of a carefully defined problem in American culture. Topics vary.

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AM ST 392R : American Studies Lecture Series: Presentations on American Studies/Western American Studies. (1:1:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall
DESCRIPTION:	Introduce research in American Studies and Western American Studies. Speakers from BYU and other institutions share their research. Students engage with lecturers by developing questions, then evaluate and write about ideas.

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AM ST 399R : Academic Internship. (.5-6:0:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter; Spring; Summer
PREREQUISITE:	Program coordinator's consent.
DESCRIPTION:	Examining the American experience from a variety of standpoints. Honing skills in writing; literary criticism; historical research; and social, political, and economic analysis.

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ANTHR 317 : Native Peoples of North America. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

WHEN TAUGHT:	Winter Even Yrs.
DESCRIPTION:	Indian groups at the time of the European arrival; social organization, beliefs, values, economy, and adaptation to environment.

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ANTHR 530 : Great Basin Archaeology. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

WHEN TAUGHT:	Winter Even Yrs.
PREREQUISITE:	Anthr 350 or equivalent.
DESCRIPTION:	Overview of ethnography, history of research, and prehistory of the Great Basin culture area. Current issues in archaeological research emphasized.

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ANTHR 535 : Southwest Seminar. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

WHEN TAUGHT:	Winter Odd Yrs.
PREREQUISITE:	Anthr 350 or equivalent.
DESCRIPTION:	Overview of ethnography and prehistory of American Southwest. Current issues in archaeological research emphasized.

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ARTHC 345 : American Art. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall
PREREQUISITE:	ArtHC 202 or instructor's consent.
DESCRIPTION:	American painting and sculpture from colonial through modern times.

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GEOG 245 : Geography of Utah. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

WHEN TAUGHT:	On Demand
DESCRIPTION:	Exploring geography of Utah. Topics include land forms, climate, agricultural and recreational economics, historical migration, Mormon cultural landscape, ethnic patterns, and rural-urban contrasts.

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GEOG 250 : United States and Canada. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

WHEN TAUGHT:	Winter
DESCRIPTION:	Analysis of the natural environment, historical development, cultural patterns, economic systems, and political structures of geographic regions.

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GEOG 306 : Public Land Conservation. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall
PREREQUISITE:	Geog 100, 101; or instructor's consent.
DESCRIPTION:	Environmental and social geography of public lands; analyzing historical, planning, management, and ecological issues.

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HIST 363 : The Spanish Frontier in North America. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

DESCRIPTION:

Spanish exploration, occupation, and institutions of northern Mexico, the American southwest, and Florida, 1521-1821; Mexican period to 1848.

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HIST 364 : Utah. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter; Spring; Summer
DESCRIPTION:	Contributions of Native Americans, explorers, mountain men, miners, government officials, Mormons, and other groups in the nineteenth century. Impact of national movements, various peoples, politics, economics, and social and cultural change in the twentieth century.

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HIST 382 : Mormonism in the American Experience. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

WHEN TAUGHT:	Winter Odd Yrs.
DESCRIPTION:	Social, economic, political, intellectual, and religious environment in which Mormonism flourished; contributions of Mormon men and women to American culture and history.

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HIST 385 : Latinos in the United States. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall Odd Yrs.
DESCRIPTION:	The place of Latin Americans within the context of U.S. history. The growth and development of the largest Latino communities from pre-colonial times to present day and how Latinos may influence future policies within the U.S.

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HIST 386 : Nineteenth-Century American Indian History. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall Even Yrs.
DESCRIPTION:	History of various Indian tribes, their cultures, and their relationships with European nations and the United States, including military campaigns.

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HIST 387 : Twentieth-Century American Indian History. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

WHEN TAUGHT:	Winter
DESCRIPTION:	Sociocultural factors that affect twentieth-century native Americans in both urban and reservation settings, including current challenges facing Indian communities.

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PL SC 311 : State and Local Government and Politics. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

WHEN TAUGHT:	On Demand
PREREQUISITE:	PL SC 110
DESCRIPTION:	Relation of state and national governments, forms of state governments and politics, types of municipal governments and their operation.

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PL SC 317 : Public Opinion and Voting Behavior. (3-4:3:Arr.)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

WHEN TAUGHT:	On Demand
PREREQUISITE:	PL SC 200
RECOMMENDED:	Pl Sc 328.
DESCRIPTION:	Relationship between attitudes, opinion, and voting behavior in American politics and institutions.

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PWS 375 : Environmental Policies and Laws. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

WHEN TAUGHT:	Winter
DESCRIPTION:	Inception, current state, and future directions of seminal environmental policies and laws established in the US to improve environmental quality. Application of policies and laws in resource conservation and management, including a National Environmental Policy Act certification program.

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PWS 411 : Watershed Management. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

WHEN TAUGHT:	Winter Even Yrs.
PREREQUISITE:	BIO 350
DESCRIPTION:	Processes and management of the hydrologic cycle of forests and rangelands.

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REL C 342 : Pioneers and Persecution, 1846-1899. (2:2:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

OFFERED:	Honors also.
WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter; Spring; Summer
DESCRIPTION:	Exodus from Nauvoo, the experience of Mormon Pioneers crossing the plains, establishing Zion in the Great Basin, plural marriage and government persecution, the Manifesto, and events leading to Utah statehood.

: Honors Pioneers and Persecution, 1846-1899.

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REL C 343 : The Global Church, 1900 to the Present. (2:2:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

OFFERED:	Honors also.
WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter; Spring; Summer
DESCRIPTION:	The Church in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, international expansion, significant developments of Church programs and structure, the Church during wartime, the world-wide spread of temples.

: Honors The Global Church, 1900 to the Present.

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SPAN 461 : Spanish-Speaking American (Mexican-American) Literature. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall On Demand; Winter Even Yrs.; Spring On Demand; Summer On Demand
PREREQUISITE:	Span 339 or instructor's consent.
DESCRIPTION:	Spanish-English literature of the Mexican-American within the United States.

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WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter; Summer
DESCRIPTION:	Conservation and management of natural resources concurrent with increasing socioeconomic and human population demands; factors such as soil, water, and air pollution, resources management, bioremediation, nutrient cycles, and global climate changes
NOTE:	This course is part of a GE Mosaic. See ge.byu.edu/mosaic-list for more information.

Undergraduate Catalog

2012 - 2013

Minor in Western American Studies (18 hours)

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Western American Studies

Minor

WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter
DESCRIPTION:	Literature and cultural representations of the American West and the frontier.

PREREQUISITE:	ECON 110
DESCRIPTION:	Impact on households, firms, and government of America's transformation from a rural, agricultural colony to a major industrial nation.

WHEN TAUGHT:	Winter
RECOMMENDED:	PWS 115.
DESCRIPTION:	Basic principles of fish and wildlife management, their habitats, and their human users. Ecological concepts, population dynamics, nutrition, behavior, population assessment, management strategies, habitat sampling and management.

WHEN TAUGHT:	Winter Even Yrs.
DESCRIPTION:	Pivotal developments in the twentieth-century West, including urbanization, Sun Belt migration, political protest, labor history, Native American history, immigration, water policy, tourism, military-industrial complex, Hollywood.

WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall
DESCRIPTION:	Perspectives and methods for making sense of mainstream middle-class American society; American ways of being-in-the-world, of believing, behaving, and belonging; American cultural themes.

WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall
PREREQUISITE:	ENGL 251 & ENGL 295
DESCRIPTION:	Fiction, poetry, drama, folklore, personal essay, and other literature emerging from the LDS experience and expressing various perspectives on it.