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Course Info for HIST - 220 - 02, Spring 2025
Class number: 2762 Title: Possible Earths Department: History
Career: Undergraduate Component: Seminar Session: Regular
Instructor's Permission Required: No Grading Basis: Regular Units: 1.00
Enrollment limited to 19 Current enrollment: 18 Available seats: 1
Start date: Tuesday, January 21, 2025 End date: Friday, May 9, 2025 Mode of Instruction: In Person
Schedule: MWF: 12:00PM-12:50PM, MC - 307 Instructor(s): Cocco, Sean
Prerequisite(s): None
Distribution Requirement: Meets Humanities and Global Requirements
Note: Seat reservations: 5 seats reserved for first-year students, 7 for sophomores, and 3 for juniors.
Course Description:
This seminar examines environmental thinking across histories and cultures in order to retrieve sources of hope and wisdom for a planetary future. Reading and discussion will foreground current humanity's vast inheritance when it comes to ways of existing in community with and knowing a living planet. Students will look critically at how texts, images, objects, and practices are historical evidence of the many ways humans have imagined natural communities and acted within them.