HIST490 EXPLORING ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY
| Course Code: | 2400490 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (3.00 - 0.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 6.0 |
| Department: | History |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Undergraduate |
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| Offered Semester: | Fall Semesters. |
Course Objectives
This course has three goals:
- To pursuit a critical study of scholarly and literary works documenting and analyzing environmental, economic, political, social, and cultural transformations in the world
- To discuss how different approaches are put to work to study the role of nature and environment in statemaking, economic, political, social, and cultural transformations.
- To examine primary, secondary, and tertiary historical sources to question various methodologies and theoretical approaches of environmental and economic history, political economy and ecology, historical geography, environmental archaeology and anthropology
Course Content
The study of human interactions with the wider natural world in a comparative historical perspective. Historical patterns in human societies caused by environmental changes; the effects of historical geography and anthropology on economic and political institutions; and the consequences of historical processes of various property regimes on economic, social, and environmental change.
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:
- learn reading environmental texts critically and to make connections between key concepts, main themes, approaches, and methods of environmental history
- develop research skills and evaluate critically a range of primary, secondary and tertiary sources through individual and group work
- understand how the world is environmentally intertwined
Program Outcomes Matrix
| Level of Contribution | |||||
| # | Program Outcomes | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 1 | are familiar with general world historical periods and trends; demonstrate knowledge of key facts, ideas, societies, organizations, cultures, structures and processes related to a variety of historical contexts. | ✔ | |||
| 2 | are familiar with existing scholarly literature, historiography and historical methodology; and have developed the ability to approach them critically. | ✔ | |||
| 3 | are acquainted with interdisciplinary approaches. | ✔ | |||
| 4 | are able to generate research questions and conduct independent historical research by locating and analyzing primary and/or secondary sources; can construct viable arguments based on source interpretation. | ✔ | |||
| 5 | have developed sufficient English language skills; additionally, they have acquired the skill to read both printed texts and manuscripts in Ottoman Turkish. | ✔ | |||
| 6 | are able to present research results both in oral and written form. | ✔ | |||
| 7 | are able to work individually or as part of a team. | ✔ | |||
| 8 | are equipped with academic ethics. | ✔ | |||
| 9 | are aware of modern day issues and current events; have the skills and knowledge to generate informed opinions. | ✔ | |||
0: No Contribution 1: Little Contribution 2: Partial Contribution 3: Full Contribution