The Feinberg Course
“New Approaches to the Study of History: The Climate Emergency”
History 200, UMass Amherst,
Professor Heidi V. Scott
The contemporary world faces an accelerating climate emergency and a no less critical ecological catastrophe. Take this course to study the deeper history of this contemporary predicament and explore the following questions: how should we study the past in a time of climate and environmental crisis? How can historical inquiry help us face these challenges? What new forms of storytelling can historians adopt to help work towards a livable future?
Additional Affiliated Courses
Fall 2020
Anthropos in the Anthropocene: Human-Environment Relations in a Time of Ecological Crisis
Environmental Science and Policy 224 / Anthropology 224, Smith College, Professor Colin Hoag
Capitalism and Alternatives in Latin America
History 200, UMass Amherst, Professor Kevin Young
Environmental Justice
Environmental Studies 330, Amherst College, Professor Ashwin Ravikumar
Environments and Change: Addressing Climate Change in a Changing Social, Political, and Environmental World
LCSEM-101, Team Taught Course, Hampshire College
Evolution and Intellectual Revolution
First Year Seminar 117, Amherst College, Professors Anna Martini and David Jones
Literature and Climate Change
English 891, UMass Amherst, Professor Malcolm Sen
History of American Capitalism
History 351, UMass Amherst, Professor Asheesh Siddique
Ideas that Changed the World
History 394CI, UMass Amherst, Professor Emily Hamilton
Indigenous Feminisms
American Studies 370/Sexuality Women & Gender Studies 372, Amherst College, Professor Jennifer Hamilton
Introduction to World Religions
History 112, UMass Amherst, Professor Mark Roblee
Protest!
Sociology 325 / Anthropology 325, Amherst College, Professor Hannah Holleman
Rape Law: Gender, Race, Justice
History 397RL, UMass Amherst, Professor Jennifer Nye
Sedimentary Geology
Geology 232, Smith College, Professor Bosiljka Glumac
Science and Society in Modern China
History 117, UMass Amherst, Professor Sigrid Schmalzer
Strategies for Liberation
Social Thought and Political Economy Program 491H, UMass Amherst, Professor Kevin Young
Unequal Footprints on the Earth: Understanding the Social Drivers of Ecological Crises and Environmental Inequality
Sociology 226 / Environmental Studies 226, Amherst College, Professor Hannah Holleman
U.S. Environmental Policy
Environmental Studies 250, Amherst College, Professor Ashwin Ravikumar
The Value of Nature
First Year Seminar 108, Amherst College, Professor Rachel Levin
Women and the Law
History 297WL / Legal 297WL, UMass Amherst, Professor Jennifer Nye
Spring 2020
American Environmental History
History 383, UMass Amherst, Professor David Glassberg
Art in the Anthropocene
English, UMass Amherst, Professor Noy Holland
Drawing Social Justice
Art Studio 153, Smith College, Professor Alex Callender
From Empires to Nations: The Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800
History 155, UMass Amherst, Professor Asheesh Siddique
From Here to Career for Humanities and Fine Arts Majors
Humanities and Fine Arts 292, UMass Amherst, Professor Mark Roblee
History and Its Publics
History 394, UMass Amherst, Professor Mark Roblee
History of Mexico
History 354, UMass Amherst, Professor Kevin Young
Latin America: The Colonial Period
History 120, UMass Amherst, Professor Heidi V. Scott
U.S. History since 1867
History 151, UMass Amherst, Professor David Glassberg
The U.S. in Latin America
History 392, UMass Amherst, Professor Kevin Young
Western Thought to 1600
History 100, UMass Amherst, Professor Mark Roblee