HIST 101
Global Environmental Change

Credit:  3 hours.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria for a
Non-Western Cultures, UIUC Social Sciences, and Western Compartv Cult course.

History of the twentieth century emphasizing globalization and environmental change. It pays particular attention to petroleum, to struggles, both international and popular, to control its sources, and to the impact of its multiple applications on agriculture and on the global commons-oceans and atmosphere. Examples will include both states who command the centers of globalization and the responses of non-Western states whose relationship with the process is more ambiguous and problematic. Same as ENVS 161 and NRES 161. This course can be used to fulfill either Western or Nonwestern general education categories, but not both.