NRES 289: People and the Land: Human Environmental Interactions on the Great Plains
Still looking for an ACE 5 or ACE 6 course for the Fall 2019 semester? NRES 289: People and the Land: Human Environmental Interactions on the Great Plains could be an interesting option.
The course will be particularly relevant to students who want to learn more about their home region or for those who are new to Nebraska and are interested in getting some background. The course explores human environmental interaction, sustainability, and climate change in the Great Plains as experienced by the different people who have called the region home. This course will sample a variety of Great Plains cultures and time periods to explore past use of the Great Plains environment. A key focus will be the evaluation of past social-ecological systems with reference to changing climatic conditions, human environmental impacts, and the sustainability of various indigenous and western modes of land use on the Great Plains. Through discussion, we will investigate our knowledge of these processes and how they can be of relevance to contemporary issues of Great Plains land management and resource utilization. Content covers that past 12 thousand years and finishes with modern examples.
The NRES 289 course will fulfill either your ACE 5 or your ACE 6 requirement, and it is a three credit hour course that will be taught online.
Questions? Please contact Dr. Matthew Douglass.