Lead Faculty: Dr. Daniel R. Thorburn
Prerequisite
ENG 240
Course Description
This course places contemporary ecological concerns in a global and historical context revealing how humans have fundamentally altered their relationship to the natural environment in the last 500 years. Topics include cultural conceptions of nature and non-human species, the value and use of resources in different societies, the consequences of various kinds of economic organization (particularly capitalism) on the environment and the impact of technological revolutions on the world's ecology.