Global Cultural Heritage: Past, Present, Future (DLCL 21N)

3–5 credits · Undergraduate

What remnants of the world's cultures will future generations be able to discover and decipher, and how will they interpret the monuments, documents, languages, and sites that remain? How will they access the technologies we have created for making our way through the world? What has been the environmental impact of human culture? Why should we preserve human cultural remains? How do encounters with the past inform our future? This IntroSem takes a humanistic perspective on sustainability, viewing the human record as a resource and exploring how it might be sustained in an ethical and meaningful way.