Academic Calendar 2020/2021 - Environmental History
HIST 4485 Environmental History
Prerequisites:
Restricted to students in an Honours program with 84 credits completed.Hours:
Three hours of seminar per week.Credits:
6Description:
This course will focus on a selected topic(s) of contemporary importance in the field of environmental history. Possible topics include food & agriculture; health, the body, and the environment; natural resources; lakes, rivers and human society; and colonialism and the environment. The course will explore environmental history as a sub-field of history, focusing on the challenge it poses to other, human-centered subfields of history. The course will also explore environmental history as an interdisciplinary field of study, including its links to historical geography and the environmental sciences.