ENV 278 - Natural History

Natural history is the close observation and detailed recording of the natural world.  This course explores the history, culture, and artistic productions of natural history, with an emphasis on the United States.  In addition to studying natural history, students will also become natural historians by developing their own skills of close observation and detailed recording of a local natural environment, in writing, sketching, and specimen collecting.

Satisfies a requirement in the Humanities track of the Environmental Studies major and interdisciplinary minor.