American Environmental History

Catalog description

This course ex - plores the political, social, intellectual, cultural, and material interac - tions between humans and the natural world, the ways in which those interactions have changed over time, and the fluid constructions of the word “nature. ” Put another way, this class studies large-scale dams and natural disasters, western expansion and southern agrarianism, salmon cannons and super highways, resource development and grassroots ac- tivism, and it grounds those stories in an ongoing discussion about our place in the natural world.