AM 103W-002: Intro: Natural and Unnatural Disasters (4)
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 interdiscipinarity, 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 1938. Fulfills expository writing requirement.