HIST 023B. Climate Enlightenments

This course is a comparative intellectual history of climate change. The first half of the course will trace a genealogy of “climate science” starting with the Enlightenment. The second half of the course will explore alternative frameworks - Indigenous, subaltern, theological, theosophic and poetic - for thinking about climate as a site of human action.
Concentrations: Science, Medicine, and Environment
Prerequisite: Previous course in the department or social sciences, AP/IB credit, or permission of the instructor.
Eligible for Method/Theory. Concentrations: Science, Medicine, and Environment
Spring 2025. Azfar.

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