HIST1710 · Complex Problems and Enduring Questions
Morrissey College of Arts & Sciences
How have we humans changed the environment by clearing forests, farming crops, damming rivers, inventing railways, building bombs, and other transformative activities? How have our aesthetics, values, ideologies, and knowledge shaped the ways we interact with the natural world? By comparing historical cases from Asia, Europe, and America during the past four hundred years, this course takes students onto a journey across historical space and time to observe how human relations with the environment gave birth to our modern world.
Course experience
Averages use the original five-point historical evaluation scale.
Organization
4.5 / 5
How well the course was organized
Challenge
4.7 / 5
How intellectually challenging students found it
Attendance
4.7 / 5
How necessary attendance was
Assignments
4.5 / 5
How helpful assignments were
Weekly effort
~3
hours per week
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Instructor options
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Across time
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Fall 2023
2 sectionsFall 2022
2 sectionsSpring 2020
1 section