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CS92PROD
History of the End

HIST 249
Spring 2021
Section: 01   02  
Course Cluster and Certificates: Sustainability and Environmental Justice

How will it end? Scientific/political hubris, a nuclear event, an asteroid, environmental disaster, overpopulation, resource scarcity, commodity price spikes, riots, social chaos, social control? This course investigates how people have imagined apocalypse and post-apocalypse over time, on the premise that fantasies of the end provide a window into the anxieties of the societies that produce them. In spite of its orientation toward fictional scenarios, this is primarily a course about postwar American environmental and political thought, and the ways these inflect or are inflected by fantasy.
Credit: 1 Gen Ed Area Dept: SBS HIST
Course Format: LectureGrading Mode: Student Option
Level: UGRD Prerequisites: None
Fulfills a Requirement for: (HIST-MN)(HIST)(STS)
Past Enrollment Probability: 50% - 74%

Last Updated on DEC-07-2024
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