Nov 22, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2024-25
CAS 1605 - Experience Ohio: Gaining a Sense of Place
Introductory course for the Ohio: Sense of Place curricular theme, involving Saturday field trips to experience different aspects of the great state of Ohio, including its history, people and culture, industry, environmental issues, landscape, and arts.
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Upon completion of this course, students will be able to collect information during fieldwork and be able to collect related information from technical and non-technical primary resources.
- Upon completion of this course, students will be able to explain the impact of landscape features on the human history, industry, and environment in Ohio.
- Upon completion of this course, students will be able to write critical analyses of field- and literature-based information they themselves have collected and in the form of essays and lessons.
- Upon completion of this course, will be able to cite or describe specific turning points in the transition from pre-Columbian landscapes to the industrial and agricultural landscapes up to the present.
- Upon completion of this course, will be able to outline the historical sequence of events that transformed the pre-Columbus Ohio landscape into the present mixed-use landscapes.
- Upon completion of this course, will be able to write and illustrate informative portfolios that bring together disparate pieces of information to describe the impact of landscape features on the human history, industry, and environment in Ohio.
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