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ES427 - Colonization, Nature, and the Making of British Columbia

Description

Introduces students to the essential concepts and methods used by historians, archaeologists, anthropologists, geographers and others to analyze environmental change from prehistoric to modern times. Explores how cultural encounters between Euro-American and the Indigenous peoples of British Columbia played out on the physical landscape, focusing on the processes of dispossession and repossession that led to the creation of the space that became British Columbia.

Units

1.5

Hours: lecture-lab-tutorial

3-0-0

Note(s)

  • Credit will be granted for only one of ES 427, ES 481 (if taken in Jan-Apr 2005, Jan-Apr 2006, Sep-Dec 2007, Sep-Dec 2009, or Sep-Dec 2010).

Prerequisites

  • Complete all of:
    • ES200 - Introduction to Environmental Studies (1.5)
    • ES321 - Ethnoecology (1.5)

Course offered by

School of Environmental Studies

Course schedules

Summer timetable available: February 15. Fall and Spring timetables available: May 15.

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