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COURSE SYLLABUS

HIS 225 Colorado History

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8. COURSE OUTLINE
  1.0 Physiography
    1.1 Relative Location
    1.2 Terrain
    1.3 Climate
  2.0 Prehistory:  The Cliff Dweller
    2.1 Early Beginnings
    2.2 Basketmaker Period
    2.3 Modified Basketmaker Period
    2.4 Development Pueblo Period
    2.5 Classic Pueblo Period
    2.6 The Borderlands
  3.0 Exploration and Discovery
    3.1 Exploring Louisiana
    3.2 The Fur Frontier
    3.3 The Frontier in Transition
  4.0 Mining Boom
    4.1 The Gold Rush
    4.2 Miners and Merchants
    4.3 Culture Comes To The Gold Towns
    4.4 Legal Beginnings
    4.5 Smelters and Railroads
  5.0 Statehood
    5.1 The Centennial State
    5.2 Changing Political Boundaries
    5.3 Politics and Population
  6.0 Nineteenth Century Colorado
    6.1 Carbonate Camps
    6.2 Open Range Days
    6.3 Ditchdiggers and Sodbusters
    6.4 New Frontier
    6.5 Populists and Politics
  7.0 The Twentieth Century
    7.1 Silver Crusade
    7.2 The Good Old Days
    7.3 Era Of Industrial Warfare
    7.4 Water and Sugar
    7.5 The Progressive Era
    7.6 State and Nation
    7.7 The Twenties
  8.0 Colorado in Transition:  1930-1950
    8.1 Depression Decade
    8.2 Life in Colorado Between Two Wars
    8.3 Decades of Boom, years of Bust
  9.0 Colorado:  1950 To The Present
    9.1 Colorado and the Nation
    9.2 Urban Colorado
    9.3 The Old and the New
    9.4 Decades of Change:  1980-1998
    9.5 Responding to Future Challenges