Environmental History of Europe
Examines European environmental history from antiquity to the 21st century, comparing it with modern global concerns.
Summary
Recent recorded grades — Fall 2022: 2.91 GPA, 35.7% A/AB (n=28 letter grades); Fall 2023: 3.18 GPA, 40.9% A/AB (n=22 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.07 GPA, 47.6% A/AB (n=21 letter grades).
What you’ll be able to do
Define historical questions concerning the human understanding of and impact on past environments in Europe.
Identify pertinent types of evidence to study past interactions between humans and their environments in Europe, while assessing their advantages and disadvantages.
Evaluate the evidentiary and theoretical bases, and areas for further investigation, in ongoing scholarly and public debates about Europe's environmental history.
Describe the variety of natural environments, cultures, and processes of historical change in Europe.
Analyze the causes of and solutions for the sustainability challenge of the conservation of natural resources.
Analyze the social, political, and environmental dimensions of the sustainability of natural resources, biodiversity, clean air and water, and other, larger earth systems.
Source: UW Guide 1· UW Guide 2
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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2022: 2.91 GPA, 35.7% A/AB (n=28 letter grades); Fall 2023: 3.18 GPA, 40.9% A/AB (n=22 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.07 GPA, 47.6% A/AB (n=21 letter grades).
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Topics
- Relations between Europeans and their environments
- Mediterranean and Western civilizations from an environmental viewpoint
- Sustainability of natural resources, biodiversity, and earth systems
Skills
- Defining historical questions about human impact on past European environments
- Identifying and assessing evidence for studying human-environment interactions
- Analyzing causes and solutions for sustainability challenges in resource conservation
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