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HIST301M

New England: Environment and History

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