Description
To contextualize and understand fully the present-day threat of climate change, the course explores how past societies were affected by a changing climate. Using a series of case studies and cutting-edge research about the history of climate, the course shows that changes in climate have, in the past, not only destabilized governments and economies, but they have even caused the complete collapse of societies amid wars and mass death. Meets General Education Distribution Area III.A., or III.D.