HIST301M
New England: Environment and History
History
BC
Subject code
HIST
Course Number
301M
Department(s)
Instructor(s)
J. Hall
Course Long Title
New England: Environment and History
Cross Listed Courses
Description
This seminar examines how people relate to their environments and how those relationships have changed. It also examines how understanding of “the environment” has consequences for how people influence it, how it influences them, and even how people influence each other. Understanding these varied relationships within the human and more-than-human world highlights how canoe routes, beach towns, textile mills, apple orchards, and all other New England environments are products of human dynamics, including those of race, gender, and class. Drawing on scholarly work as well as primary sources (including paintings, newspapers, diaries, and maps), students gain an appreciation for this complex history. They then engage in the process of writing their own analysis of some part of the region’s past.
Modes of Inquiry
Analysis and Critique [AC], Historical and Social Inquiry [HS]
Writing Credit
W2
Departmental Course Attributes - Major/Minor Requirements
(History: Early Modern), (History: Modern), (History: United States)
INDS Program Relationship
IDES - ENVR Program
GEC This Course Belongs To
-
Class Restriction
Exclude First Years