Seeing a Bigger Picture: Integrating Environmental History and Visual Studies
HIST 262
Fall 2019 not offered
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| Crosslisting:
SISP 255, ENVS 255, ARHA 262 |
| Certificates: Environmental Studies, Environmental Studies Minor, International Relations, International Relations Minor |
This interdisciplinary course approaches the history of environmental policy and opinion making through a frame that takes seriously the rise in power accorded to visual imagery and visual practices (including photography, digital image production, film and new media) in modern society. The course introduces students to key landmarks in the visual history of environmentalism spanning a period from colonial America to the recent past, focusing both on images of nature and on the nature of images. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS HIST |
| Course Format: Lecture / Discussion | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (ARHA)(ENVS-MN)(HIST-MN) |
Major Readings:
Mcneill and Mcneill, THE HUMAN WEB: A BIRD'S- EYE VIEW OF WORLD HISTORY
ABUNDANT BEAUTY: THE ADVENTUROUS TRAVELS OF MARIANNE NORTH, BOTANICAL ARTIST (2010)
Rachel Carson, SILENT SPRING
Bill McKibben, ed. AMERICAN EARTH: ENVIRONMENTAL WRITING SINCE THOREAU (2008)
Daniel Defoe, JOURNAL OF THE PLAGUE YEAR
Gillian Rose, VISUAL METHODOLOGIES
James Cook, JOURNALS OF CAPTAIN COOK (Penguin edition)
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Examinations and Assignments:
Two short (4-5 pp.) papers, final research project, final presentation, in-class participation and attendance. |
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