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Global Environmental History (HIST90036)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 6.25On Campus (Parkville)
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In the past decade the field of environmental history has seen great analytical and conceptual developments across all topics. This subject will examine recent major works in environmental history to assess the state of the field and to illuminate contemporary environmental issues and questions. In particular, we will read in some major monographs concerning topics including global environments and commodities, environmental management, climate (including climate change), technologies and environmental control, state-building, and environmental narratives and discourses. We will discuss the difficulties and tensions of research that straddles many spatial and temporal scales and human and non-human actors. Although focussed on the work of historians, this course will also actively consider the interdisciplinary frameworks in which these works sit and the concepts with which they engage, particularly noting work in geography, anthropology, and the emerging environmental humanities.
Intended learning outcomes
Students who successfully complete this subject should have:
- Enhanced knowledge of central themes and concerns of global environmental history
- The capacity to engage with and clearly communicate major scholarship in the field
- An advanced understanding of key disciplinary and multi-disciplinary norms and perspectives relevant to the field
Generic skills
The subject will contribute, through teaching and discussion with academic staff and peers, to developing skills and capacities including those identified in the University-defined Graduate Attributes for the PhD, in particular:
- The capacity to contextualise research within an international corpus of specialist knowledge,
- An advanced ability to engage in critical reflection, synthesis and evaluation of research-based and scholarly literature
- An advanced understanding of key disciplinary and multi-disciplinary norms and perspectives relevant to the field
Last updated: 3 November 2022