STSC 179 Down to Earth: An introduction to environmental history
Cross-listed as ENVS 179, HIST 320
Offered:Spring 2009
Greene TR 10:30-12
This course is an introduction to environmental history as a field and as a way of thinking. Environmental historians study the interactions between humans and the natural world. In this kind of study, mosquitoes and climates are actors in history as well as objects of human interest and action. This course explores these interactions through through both global and American history, covering topics that include such as energy, disease, technology, animals, politics and sprawl.
