Daniel Speich Chassé: Catalogue data in Autumn Semester 2018 |
Name | Prof. Dr. Daniel Speich Chassé (Professor Universität Luzern) |
Address | Universität Luzern Frohburgstrasse 3 Postfach 4466 6002 Luzern SWITZERLAND |
Telephone | 041 229 59 54 |
Department | Environmental Systems Science |
Relationship | Lecturer |
Number | Title | ECTS | Hours | Lecturers | |
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701-0791-00L | Environmental History - Introduction and Overview Number of participants limited to 100. | 2 credits | 2V | D. Speich Chassé | |
Abstract | Our society faces a serious ecological crisis. Of what historical dimension is this crisis? How have human societies already in earlier times changed their environment, and, consequently, perhaps also ours? What were the main ecological challenges for societies and how did they change over time? And how did societies adapt to changing environmental conditions? | ||||
Learning objective | Introduction into environmental history; survey of long-term development of human-nature-interrelations; discussion of selected problems. Improved ability to assess current problems from a historical perspective and to critically interrogate one's own standpoint. | ||||
Lecture notes | Course material is provided in digital form. | ||||
Literature | McNeill, John R. 2000. Something new under the sun: An environmental history of the twentieth-century world, New York: Norton. Uekötter, Frank (Ed.) 2010. The turning points of environmental history, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. Winiwarter, Verena und Martin Knoll 2007. Umweltgeschichte: Eine Einführung, Köln: Böhlau. | ||||
Prerequisites / Notice | Students are asked to write an exam during the last session | ||||
853-0725-00L | History Part One: Europe (Modernization in the 'Old Continent' 1815-1992) | 3 credits | 2V | D. Speich Chassé | |
Abstract | A range of fundamental processes have transformed European societies in the course of the 19th and the 20th centuries. This lecture series asks whether one single model of modernization prevailed on the 'Old Continent' or whether we need to differenciate regionally. A special focus lies on the Swiss experience. | ||||
Learning objective | At the end of this lecture course, students can: (a) highlight the most important changes in the "long nineteenth century" in Europe (b) explain their long-term effects; and (c) relate these changes to global developments today. | ||||
Content | The thematic foci include: Industrialization on the British Isles, urban growth in Switzerland, the difficult road to democracy in Germany, and French individualism. | ||||
Lecture notes | Power Point Slides and references will be made available in digital form during the course of the semester. | ||||
Literature | Mandatory and further reading will be listed on the course plan that is made available as from the first session. | ||||
Prerequisites / Notice | This lecture series does not build upon specific previous knowledge by the students. |