HISTORY 345 · also ICS 340, PUBPOL 278
North American Environmental History
Justin F. Shapiro
Description from DukeHub
Environmental history examines how human and non-human communities have lived in constant negotiation with each other. This course covers environmental changes in North America from deep geological time to the present with focus on the US South. Topics of study will include Indigenous peoples from the early Mississippian era to present day Southeastern Native Nations, impacts of settler colonialism and plantation economies, development of national parks and modern environmentalism, Black geographies and ecologies, resource extraction, and exploitation, labor movements, the emergence of the environmental justice movement, and the ongoing climate crisis.
Skills
No skill passed the confidence bar. Weak matches go to review instead of this page: an AI pass that has to quote the description, then a person.
AI-resilient: 2 of 5
- No: Physical, lab or field work
- Yes: Live work with people · "negotiation"
- Yes: Judgment someone is accountable for · "negotiation"
- No: A craft you practice with your hands or body
- No: Small, in-person format
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