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SMU-IN-TAOS: HIST 3309

This course surveys the environmental history of North America from pre-Columbian times to the present. Environmental history expands the customary framework of historical inquiry, incorporating not only human beings but also the natural worlds in our understandings of the past. Plants, animals, and diseases thus take their place as historical forces alongside humans and our culture and social institutions. We will consider how the inhabitants of this continent were shaped by nature, shaped their own very different environments, and make sense of these processes. The readings, field trips, and lectures will expose students to a variety of ways of approaching environmental history as well as major concepts in the field.

3 credit hours

Instructor: Sarah Payne