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Dec 04, 2025
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HIST 323 - History of Sustainability
Units: 4 ; Breadth Area: GE-UD-3; Sustainability
Seminar discussing the historical roots of global contemporary issues in environmental politics, health and sustainability. Focus on the human relationship to the natural world and how diverse cultures have lived within their environments.
Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-UD-3 - Upper-Division Arts or Humanities (Humanities); Sustainability
Prerequisites: Completion of GE Areas 1A, 1B, 1C and GE-2 with grade C- (CR) or better (GE Areas A1, A2, A3 and B4 for students on the 2024-25 or earlier catalogs).
Strongly Recommended Preparation: Upper division status (greater than 60 earned semester units) and completion of lower division Area 3 requirements (lower division Area C requirements for students on the 2024-25 or earlier catalogs).
Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground, or Hybrid, or Online-Asynchronous.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice).
Course Typically Offered: Variable Intermittently
Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:
- Understand the human relationship to the natural world as a historically evolving one and use a humanist approach to more deeply explain environmental issues;
- Analyze the evolution of environmental thought and policy through the use of historical evidence;
- Identify culture and historical context as integral pieces of humans’ relationship to the environment;
- apply knowledge of environmental history to understand the notion of sustainability across time on local and global levels.
GE-UD-3. Upper-division Arts or Humanities Learning Outcomes
- Demonstrate an understanding of and ability to apply principles, methodologies, values systems, and thought processes employed in the arts and humanities.
- Analyze cultural production as an expression of, or reflection upon, what it means to be human.
- Demonstrate how the perspectives of the arts or humanities are used by informed, engaged, and reflective citizens to benefit local and global communities.
Sustainability Overlay Learning Outcomes
- Discuss multiple dimensions of sustainability, including the scientific, social, cultural, and/or economic.
- Analyze interactions between human activities and natural systems.
- Describe strategies taken by individuals, communities, organizations, or governments for mitigating and/or adapting to key threats to environmental sustainability.
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