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Course Info for HIST - 220 - 01, Spring 2024
Class number: 2238 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: 17 Available seats: 2
Start date: Monday, January 22, 2024 End date: Friday, May 10, 2024 Mode of Instruction: In Person
Schedule: MWF: 12:00PM-12:50PM, MC - 307 Instructor(s): Kete, Kathleen
Prerequisite(s): None
Distribution Requirement: Meets Humanities and Global Requirements
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.