HSC 039 - Pacific Northwest History

Credits: 2.5
LEC hours per week: 2.500
Geography, Native tribes and their cultures, explorers, pioneer settlement, government, economy and ecology of the Pacific Northwest states of Washington, Oregon, and Idaho from earliest times to the present.
Course Outcomes:

Analyze how individuals and movements have shaped Washington State history.
Analyze factors contributing to the development of the Pacific Northwest and describe its impact on the present.
Analyze the cause and effect relationships of past human events.
Identify regional trends and diagnose issues facing the people of the Pacific Northwest today.

Course Topics:

Physical landscape.
Natural environment.
Geographic regions.
Native Americans.
Explorers by sea and land.
Fur traders.
Christian missionaries.
Oregon pioneers.
Oregon country.
Treaties and Indian wars.
From territory to statehood.
Economic growth.
20th Century: 1900-1945.
Post World War II (1946-present).
Contemporary Northwest.
Environmental issues.