HI 379 - Climate and Human History

Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
Credit Hours: 3

This methodologically intensive course surveys the relationship between humans and climate over the last millennium with an emphasis on the Global Crisis of the seventeenth century. Cadets will examine how human-climate interactions influenced the cultural, political, social, economic, and environmental changes over time, and how this changed temporally and spatially. In addition to the more traditional text-based sources, cadets will become familiar with “non-traditional” sources utilized by the humanities including experiential techniques from the natural sciences, like coring trees, reading pollen slides, or examining ice cores. Region: Europe or Asia/Africa/Latin America, but not both. Note: Methodologically intensive. Prerequisite(s): HI majors must complete HI 201W or HI 202W with a minimum grade of C. Non-HI majors require permission of the instructor.