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Sustainability - Environmental History

Course Code
HIST 379  Credits
Title Environmental History 
Lasc Area
  • Goal 5
  • Goal 10
 
Course Outline Course Outline 
Writing Intensive Yes  
Description This course is a study of the history of humankind's interactions with the environments focusing on the past 500 years. Special attention will be paid to the non-Western world. Topics include global interconnectedness and the spread of disease, the relationship between trade, modern economics, and sustainable development, natural disasters, and the rise of the ecological movement. MnTC Goal 5 and 10.