From Oil Gushers to Fracking: A History of American Petroleum Credits: 3

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Students will consider civic engagement by studying how the history of oil production and consumption has influenced people’s relationships to their communities and environments at the local, regional, and global scale. Integrating geology and history, this interdisciplinary course explores how carbon fuel shapes life on the planet. Humans have engaged with each other and the natural world by seeking and burning fossil fuels, but this has created unintended consequences (both good and bad) throughout time and across the planet. Civic engagement offers a way of thinking that may shape humans’ actions and their carbon footprints.