LISS.383 ENVIRONMENT and HUMAN ADAPTATION: EUROPEAN SOUTHWEST

LISS.383: SYLLABUS

SPRING 1997

Each week consists of two sessions. For each session, a list of topics is provided together with a link to the instructor's PERSPECTIVE on these topics. Readings relevant to these topics are listed in order of priority. Recommended readings are listed in square brackets. Links to the reading list provide information about and/or direct access to the reading.

WEEK 1 (03/25-03/27)

SESSION 1 (03/25)

Topics:: Spanish Entradas
Overview of Indigenous Population at Spanish Contact; Rio Grande Basin: Hispano Homeland
PERSPECTIVE

Reading:: Bannon '74, Ch. 2, pp. 8-21; Ch. 3, pp. 28-42
Spicer '62, Introduction
Nostrand '92, Ch. 1
[ Udall and Jacka '87]

Film:: El Camino Real (20 min) (CU V26450)

SESSION 2 (03/27)

Topics:: Rio Grande Basin: Contemporary Indian Cultures
Guest Presentation:
Prof. Brenda Romero
College of Music
CU Boulder
PERSPECTIVE

Reading:: To be announced.

Films:: To be announced.

WEEK 2 (04/01-04/03)

SESSION 1 (04/01)

Topics:: Rio Grande Basin: Formative Colonization; Rio Grande Basin: Indian Articulation
PERSPECTIVE

Reading:: Nostrand '92, Chs. 2,3
Spicer '62, Ch. 11
[ Spicer '62, Ch. 6]

Film:

Los Tejedores (29 min) (CU V51992)

SESSION 2 (04/03)

Topics:: Rio Grande Basin: Contiguous Expansion
PERSPECTIVE

Reading:: Nostrand '92, Ch. 4
Spicer '62, Ch. 12
[ Brown and Ingram '87, Ch. 4]

Film:: Los Hispanos del Valle (19 min) (CSM vidio)

WEEK 3 (04/08-04/10)

SESSION 1 (04/08)

Topics:: Rio Grande Basin: Anglo Inrusion
Peripheral Areas: Apache Corridor
PERSPECTIVE

Reading:: Nostrand '92, Ch. 5
Spicer '62, Chs. 9,13

Film:: Geronimo and the Apache Resistance (60 min) (CU V34441)

SESSION 2 (04/10)

Topics:: Peripheral Areas: Colorado Plateau
PERSPECTIVE

Reading:: Spicer '62, Chs. 7,8

Films:: Hopi (18 min) (CU V39864)
Navajo (18 min) (CU V39864)

LISS 382-83 TERM PAPER FIRST DRAFTS DUE 04-10-97

WEEK 4 (04/15-04/17)

SESSION 1 (04/15)

Topics:: Environmental Change: Rio Puerco Valley Example
PERSPECTIVE

Reading:: Widdison '59
Cooke and Reeves '76, Part I, pp. 1-13
[ Bryan '28]
[ López '80]
[ López '82]

SESSION 2 (04/17)

Topics:: Environmental Changes: Inventory / Causes
PERSPECTIVE

Reading:: Bahre '91, Ch. 2; Ch. 5, pp. 114-123; Ch. 6, pp. 135-142; Ch. 7, pp. 151-154; Ch. 8, pp. 157-160; Ch. 9, pp. 161-166, Chs. 10, 11

WEEK 5 (04/22-04/24)

SESSION 1 (04/22)

Topics:: Rio Grande Basin: Mexican Immigration, Village Depopulation, Urbanization
PERSPECTIVE

Reading:: Nostrand '92, Chs. 7-9

Film:: Maria of the Pueblos (15 min) (CU B54415 16 mm film)

SESSION 2 (04/24)

Topics:: Rio Grande Basin: Water Resources
PERSPECTIVE

Reading:: Brown and Ingram '87, Chs. 5-7

Film:: When the Rivers Run Dry: Part II (20 min) (CSM vidio)

LISS 382-83
WEEK 10 (04/29-05/01)

SESSION 1 (04/29)

STUDENT PRESENTATIONS

SESSION 2 (05/01)

STUDENT PRESENTATIONS

LISS 382-83 TERM PAPER DUE 05/01 AT CLASS MEETING
Please submit corrected first draft together with final draft.

Colorado School of Mines
Division of Liberal Arts and International Studies
Dr. Joseph D. Sneed
jsneed@mines.edu