HIST4703 · History
Morrissey College of Arts & Sciences
This course introduces students to the practice of environmental history with a thematic focus on water. While offering students a basic theoretical and methodological training of environmental history, the course guides students through intensive reading about various water bodies and water-related issues (ecological, political, social, economic, cultural, conceptual, etc.) in different parts of the world during both pre-modern and modern eras. In addition to lectures, readings, and discussion, each student will identify a specific water body or water issue as his or her research topic and carry out an individual project.
Course experience
Averages use the original five-point historical evaluation scale.
Organization
3.7 / 5
How well the course was organized
Challenge
4.3 / 5
How intellectually challenging students found it
Attendance
4.4 / 5
How necessary attendance was
Assignments
3.9 / 5
How helpful assignments were
Weekly effort
~7
hours per week
Estimated from the original workload response buckets. Individual sections may differ.
Instructor options
Ratings below reflect only recovered evaluations connected to this course.
Across time
Section-level results available in the recovered archive.
Spring 2024
1 section