6111 - Environmental History
Course information
- Title
- Environmental History
- Course number
- 6111.24
- Academic year
- 2024-2025
- ECTS
- 10.00
- Level
- Master
- Faculties
- History and Social Sciences
- Educations
- MSSc in Social Science and Political Science, M.A. in History
- Prerequisites
- BA in History, Social Science, Politics and Administration or equivalent
- Language of instruction
- Faroese
- Registration
- Students in a program are automatically enrolled. Students of a single subject, apply through the student affairs office lss@setur.fo
- Beginning date
- Tuesday, January 28, 2025
- End date
- Tuesday, April 1, 2025
Academic content
- Purpose
- The purpose of the course is to provide students with basic knowledge, concepts, and analytical tools to understand the historical roots to contemporary environmental problems, as well as tools to describe and analyze changes in nature, culture, society, and politics from the perspective of environmental history, and their implications for long-term sustainability and human well-being.
- Learning outcomes
- Upon completion of the course, students must demonstrate that they are able to: • Describe how environmental history developed as a transdisciplinary field, mainly during the past half century. • Describe main approaches in environmental history. • Explain the role and significance of culture and perceptions of nature on economic practices and ways to exploit nature. • Describe and analyze how environmental change has impacted society, politics, and culture and vice versa. • Describe and analyze the interrelations between sustainability, human well-being, and the environment in a long-term perspective. • Describe and analyze a chosen topic from an environmental historical approach.
- Content
- • Basic concepts and approaches in environmental history. • The development of the field of environmental history. • Global environmental history. • Environmental and cultural determinism in historical understanding. • Perceptions of nature, economy, and environmental change through time. • Sustainability, human well-being, and environmental change in a long-term perspective. • Modernity, energy, consumption, and climate change. • Agriculture/fisheries and the environment. • Ecological imperialism/ecologies of empire.
- Learning and teaching approaches
- Learning and teaching in the course is facilitated through lectures, student presentations and smaller group exercises.
Assessment
- Assessment method
- Oral examination of written home assignment/paper.
- Examination (internal/external)
- External
- Grading scale
- 7-scale
- Exam date/dates
- The submission date for the assignment is set at the 11th of April. Oral defence will be held the 23rd of April.
- Deadline for withdrawal from exam
- Saturday, February 15, 2025
Academic responsibility and teachers
- Academic responsibility
- Ragnheiður Bogadóttir
- Teachers
- Ragnheiður Bogadóttir, Tráin Petursson Nónklett