Courses

This provides a list of university-level courses in environmental history and the history of environmental change in the United Kingdom, 2008-9. We would like the list to be exhaustive but are sure that it is not! As with all areas of the site, we would be very happy to receive updates.

Undergraduate courses

University of Birmingham
Transforming Britain’s Environment: Nature, Landscape and Society 1700-1939.

 

University of Cambridge
Population, Development and Environment

 

University of Dundee
 An Environmental History of the American West: Land, Water, Forest and Wilderness

 

University of East Anglia
Introduction to Environmental and Landscape History (One semester First Year course based on lectures and field trips)

‘Empires of Nature. Nature and society in Britain and Germany, 1500-1945’.
Second Year lecture and seminar based course. 

Landscape History Minor (Three year degree course covering ancient, medieval and modern landscape history).

 

University of Edinburgh

MSc in Landscape, Environment and History

 

University of Exeter at Penryn
The ‘Greening’ of the West: The Idea of Environment, 1945-1980. First Year source-based course. 

Nature, Politics and the Environment in Britain, 1800-2000.
Third Year special subject.

 

University of Hertfordshire
History of the English Landscape (Third Year course)

 

University of Lincoln
Environmental History (2nd year course)

 

University of Newcastle
Encounters in World History, HIS 1023 (2006-07)

Environmental History of Northwestern Europe

 

University of Nottingham
Lecture: ‘Use and Delight: the nineteenth century environment’, to Roads to Modernity, 1789-1945 (first year survey module)

Lecture: ‘The rise of global environmentalism since 1945’, to The Contemporary World since 1945 (compulsory second year module)

Environmental History: Nature and the Western World, 1800-2000 (second year optional module)

Managing Tourism and the Environment: conflict or consensus?

Tourism and Sustainability

 

University of St. Andrews
Environmental History: Nature and the Western World, 1800-2000

Ideas on nature and animals in the middle ages

Disease and the Environment, c.1500-2000

 

University of Stirling
Introduction to Tourism History: The Development of European Tourism, 1750-1914

War, Famine, Disease and Death, c.1250-c.1650

Gaels, Vikings and Normans: People and Environment in the North Atlantic World, c.850-c.1250

Social History of the Victorian City:  Computer Approaches

Environment, politics and people in colonial Africa

The Development of Tourism in Scotland, c.1770-1914

 

University of Sussex
Nature and History