HIST3950

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HIST3950 - Environmental History (DHA/CI) - 3 - Credits

History, Cultures & Ideas College of Arts & Sciences

Course Prefix

HIST

Course Number

3950

Course Title

Environmental History (DHA/CI)

General Education Attribute

CI, DHA

Grade Mode

Standard Letter

Repeat Status

NR

Course Description

Surveys writings from a relatively new genre of historical scholarship that attempts to explain the relationship between human society and the natural world. Readings focus on North America, but students also have opportunity to survey materials from the non-Western world. Course is reading and writing intensive, and requires students to conduct a research project in which they construct the history of a particular landscape.

Credit Hours Min

3