Many Peoples of the US
No one course could begin to do justice to this title. Over 400 different indigenous cultures inhabited the territory for some 20,000 years before European conquest began. Africans from all of West Africa and smaller numbers from the whole continent arrived with the Spaniards and millions as slaves for English settlers. Immigrants from every European country came in the nineteenth century. Asia began to send its people as early as the 1840s.
P- Rsrch: Electricity & Rivers
Summarize and outline existing studies and data on hydrological and geomorphic conditions and patterns around case study sites in Connecticut and Romaine Rivers; supplement with field data, and/or scientist interviews. Coordinate with other undergraduates and faculty in interdisciplinary team.
P- Rsrch: Electricity & Rivers
Assist and conduct documentary, web research, participant-observation, and interview research on development on New England energy policy and markets, dam relicensing, and community/regional economic development; and history, politics, impacts of projects and communities around Romaine River Hydropower Complex, Quebec. Additionally, help organize and lead conference on electricity and rivers. Coordinate with other undergraduates and faculty in interdisciplinary team.