Environmental History

Catalog description

This course will present a history from the eighteenth century to the present of interactions between humankind and the environment. Students will explore changing conceptions of the environment over time through lectures, discussions, readings, and research projects. This course will also emphasize major events historically, the transformed perceptions of nature, and the rise of historical phenomena such as colonization, imperialism, romanticism, industrialization, consumerism, conservation, and environmentalism.