Fall 2019 - GEOG 377 D100
Environmental History (4)
Class Number: 4330
Delivery Method: In Person
Overview
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Course Times + Location:
Sep 3 – Dec 2, 2019: Wed, 9:30 a.m.–12:20 p.m.
Burnaby -
Exam Times + Location:
Dec 6, 2019
Fri, 8:30–11:30 a.m.
Burnaby
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Instructor:
Joseph Taylor
taylorj@sfu.ca
778.782.4400
Office: AQ 6012
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Prerequisites:
At least 45 units, including GEOG 100 or REM 100.
Description
CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:
Examines the reciprocal influences between humans and nature through time. Topics may include settlement, agriculture, technology, politics, urbanization, science, and conservation. Students with credit for HIST 377 may not take this course for further credit.
COURSE DETAILS:
This course studies the reciprocal influence of humans and nature in North America from contact to the present. It explores the impacts of pathogens, evolution, settlement, and technology on life. Lectures also trace North Americans’ evolving environmental imaginaries, charting many shifts in thought over the last 400 years. As an upper-division course, GEOG 377 contributes to student comprehension of the social, cultural, and ecological factors shaping human events across time.
Topics: class, colonialism, culture, markets, urbanization, technology, energy, and consumption
Grading
- Midterm 30%
- Paper 30%
- Tutorial 10%
- Final 30%
Materials
REQUIRED READING:
James Webb, Tropical Pioneers: Human Agency and Ecological Change in the Highlands of Sri Lanka, 1800-1900 (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2002).
Roderick P. Neumann, Imposing Wilderness: Struggles over Livelihood and Nature Preservation in Africa (Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 2002).
Eric D. Carter, Enemy in the Blood: Malaria, Environment, and Development in Argentina (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2012)
Gregory Cushman, Guano and the Opening of the Pacific World (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013)
Primary docs available online via urls, SFU’s Electronic Journals, and Canvas
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