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Course Info for HIST - 220 - 02, Spring 2024
Class number: 2239 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 10 Current enrollment: 10 Available seats: 0
Start date: Monday, January 22, 2024 End date: Friday, May 10, 2024 Mode of Instruction: In Person
Schedule: MWF: 12:00PM-12:50PM, SH - N215 Instructor(s): Wickman, Thomas
Prerequisite(s): None
Distribution Requirement: Meets Humanities and Global Requirements
Note: 2 seats reserved for first-year students, 6 for sophomores, and 2 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.