Topic: Curriculum

In this case study, we narrate the story of one exercise deployed in this course, a night class in the forest, which has proven valuable for helping our students develop an affective connection with the natural surroundings.

This course analyzes the transformation of the North American environment from the sixteenth through the twentieth centuries, paying special attention to the effects of human practices and attitudes, including different notions of nature.

This course takes a human-environment geographer’s perspective, posing the following questions: What role does land play in particular cultures in particular places? How do biophysical processes shape landscapes? How do social processes determine land use?