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    Mar 29, 2024  
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HIST186 PO - Climate in History

When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered fall 2022
Instructor(s): P. Chu
Credit: 1

This seminar explores the role of climate and climate change in history since the first cold phase of the Little Ice Age in the fifteenth century. By engaging with the growing field of “climate history,” we approach climate in three ways: as physical reality, scientific idea, and cultural perception. We examine interactions between climatic and political and social change; colonial histories of acclimatization, geoengineering, and climatology; connections between climate and ideas about race; the discovery of global warming; and the concept of the Anthropocene. By investigating historical relationships between climate and society, we uncover how the past can inform our understanding of climate change in the present and future.
Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
PO Area 3 Requirement;PO Speaking Intensive



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