Environmental History

3 Credits · Level: Graduate

This course is designed for PhD and MAGIC students with no prior experience in environmental or climate history. It will introduce students to the issues, concerns, debates, and methods of environmental history and one of its liveliest component fields, climate history. The course will be global in scope, with attention to multiple geographic regions, and primarily focused on the last 500 years. It will give special attention to the integration of methods and models from the humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences, as well as to the pitfalls and possibilities of making the past speak to the present.