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Date posted: September 2024

Module Title Environmental History
Module Code HY344 (ITS) / HIS1063 (Banner)
Faculty Humanities & Social Sciences School History & Geography
Module Co-ordinatorJuliana Adelman
Module TeachersGránia Shanahan
NFQ level 8 Credit Rating 5
Pre-requisite Not Available
Co-requisite Not Available
Compatibles Not Available
Incompatibles Not Available
Repeat examination
Description

What does history look like when we place greater emphasis on the nonhuman environment? This module asks you to reflect on this question through lectures, readings, tutorials and a sequence of assessments. The usual approach to history is to consider how humans have shaped it and what effect historical changes have had on humans. Environmental history considers changing ideas about the nonhuman world, how the environment has affected human history and in turn how humans have shaped the environment. We live through an age dominated by a disease that has spread from animals and debates about how to avert climate catastrophe. This seems like an apt moment to consider the interrelationship between humans and environment throughout history.

Learning Outcomes

1. Identify the key components of, and questions asked by, an environmental history approach to the past.
2. Analyse episodes in human history from an environmental history viewpoint.
3. Argue for the importance of including nonhuman factors in historical causation.
4. Identify and analyse primary sources used in environmental history.
5. Use your knowledge of the past to think critically about our relationship with the nonhuman world in the present.



Workload Full-time hours per semester
Type Hours Description
Lecture24No Description
Assignment Completion92No Description
Independent Study24No Description
Total Workload: 140

All module information is indicative and subject to change. For further information,students are advised to refer to the University's Marks and Standards and Programme Specific Regulations at: http://www.dcu.ie/registry/examinations/index.shtml

Indicative Content and Learning Activities

Assessment Breakdown
Continuous Assessment40% Examination Weight60%
Course Work Breakdown
TypeDescription% of totalAssessment Date
AssignmentThere will be a combination of summative and formative assessment.40%n/a
Reassessment Requirement Type
Resit arrangements are explained by the following categories:
Resit category 1: A resit is available for both* components of the module.
Resit category 2: No resit is available for a 100% continuous assessment module.
Resit category 3: No resit is available for the continuous assessment component where there is a continuous assessment and examination element.
* ‘Both’ is used in the context of the module having a Continuous Assessment/Examination split; where the module is 100% continuous assessment, there will also be a resit of the assessment
This module is category 1
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