DRAFT: This module has unpublished changes.
Welcome to People and the American Landscape!
Spring 2014
This course is about the history of the relationship between people and the land in the United States, focusing on the issues of agriculture, suburbanization, and wilderness preservation. The development of the American environmental movement is also highlighted.
The culminating project for this course is independent research in which each student contributes to this ePortfolio on some aspect of Sweet Briar College environmental history. A table of contents of student work is below. To access a project, click on the student's name in the section bar above.
| Student | Project |
| Katherine Brown | Sweet Briar's Built Environment Through Time |
| Emily Dallas | The Sweet Briar Outing Cabin |
| Emily Diamond | The Gardens of Sweet Briar |
| Hayley Foraker | Sweet Briar Orchards and Pesticide Use |
| Ariel Harper | Then and Now: How the Dairy Altered Land Usage at Sweet Briar |
| Verena Joerger | The Sweet Briar Riding Center: A Land History |
| Megan Johnston | Maintenance of Turf Grasses for Sweet Briar Athletic Facilities |
| Katriana Jorgensen-Muga | Sweet Briar Athletics and Land Use |
| Savanna Klein | "What's Fair is Fair": The History of Carry Nature Sanctuary and Constitution Oaks Sanctuary at Sweet Briar College |
| Adeline Krieger | Livestock at Sweet Briar |
| Megan Link | Transportation at Sweet Briar |
| Taylor Litzenberg | The Economics and Closure of the Sweet Briar Orchard |
| Emma Merritt-Cuneo | Sweet Briar Cemeteries: A Comparison of Monument Hill and the Plantation Burial Ground |
| Nina Rezai | Power Systems at Sweet Briar College |
| Epiphany Soward | The Evolution of Sweet Briar College's Water Resources |
HNRS 312 People & Am Land - syllabus S14.pdf
DRAFT: This module has unpublished changes.
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