HTY 312: Furs, Frontiers, and Fame: North American Exploration
Instructor: Carol Blasi
Time: TTh 12:30-1:45pm
Location: BW119
Course Number: 47199
Course Description: This course examines the identities, practices, and spaces of exploration in North America from the late fifteenth to the twentieth centuries. Different political, economic, scientific, and cultural motives for the exploration of Canada and the United States over time will be compared and contrasted. The experiences of Spanish, French, English, Russian, American, and Canadian explorers and expeditions will be situated in local, national, imperial, and global contexts. The course will broadly explore the themes of cross-cultural encounter, exploration and science, textual and visual representation, and the public commemoration of explorers and exploration.
Prerequisites: Three credits of History or permission of instructor.