ENGL 293

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The Anthropocene

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Credit: 3 hours.

Focuses on the current historical period of humans' relative dominance over major Earth systems. Introduces students to debates surrounding the scientific basis for the Anthropocene, followed by a survey of its major historical periodizations, from the so-called "Paleo-Anthropocene" of human agriculture, to industrialization, to the post-1950 "Great Acceleration" in economic development and resource consumption whose consequences we now face in crisis phenomena such as climate change, water scarcity, resource wars, and environmental refugeeism.

Same as ESE 293.

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ENGL 293 class schedule data for fall 2017
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	67748	Lecture-Discussion	S	2:00PM -3:15PM	TR	144 Armory	Wood, G	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/28/17-12/13/17 Section Info: The term “Anthropocene” translates as “The Age of Humans” and has been widely adopted in academia and the media to describe the increasing dominance of human civilizations over Earth’s natural systems since the Industrial Revolution, and most dramatically since 1950. This most recent period, when the corrosive human impact on our planet’s water, land, and climate systems, and its animal species, has multiplied exponentially, is only the latest, most dramatic chapter in a history of human planetary engineering that reaches back at least to the invention of agriculture 8000 years ago. This course introduces students to the essential political, cultural and technological history of ever-expanding human footprint of the Anthropocene, and to its urgent ramifications for us today. We, as citizens of the Anthropocene Age, face decisions on issues ranging from energy to agriculture to urban design that will directly impact the quality—even viability—of life for future human generations.