History (HIST) - The Environmental Era: Creating and Protecting Nature in Modern Canada
HIST 2167 The Environmental Era: Creating and Protecting Nature in Modern Canada
Prerequisites:
Six credits of History at the 1000 level or 24 credits completed.
Antirequisites:
HIST 3277, HIST 3275 and HIST 2275
Hours:
Three hours of lecture per week for one term.
Credits:
3
Description:
Students examine the cultural and political history of environmentalism. Only once industrialization removed humans and their bodies from the need to wrest daily survival from nature could nature become a source of rest and relaxation and something to be preserved. Topics will include the conservation and environmental movements; the history of parks, protected areas, and wilderness recreation as a form of healthy living; and reactions to industrial and chemical pollution.