AM 103W-002: Intro:  Natural and Unnatural Disasters

Mary C. Lynn, TLC 329, x5025

An interdisciplinary analysis of American's natural and unnatural disasters, this course will examine floods, fires, earthquakes, epidemics, and other disasters to explore the development of American culture.  The course will emphasize writing and research, reading critically, thinking historically, practicing interdisciplinarity, acknowledging diversity, and making connections.  The class will study the Chicago Fire, the 1910 Big Burn Forest Fire, the San Francisco Earthquake, the 1918 influenza epidemic, the 1927 Mississippi Flood, the Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919, and the New England Hurricane of 1928. (Fulfills expository writing requirement.)

SPRING 2010 Syllabus (coming in January)