Module Specifications.
Current Academic Year 2024 - 2025
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Date posted: September 2024
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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. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 |
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