Course Entry Form

CDL COURSE ENTRY FORM

Author: Bernice Kennedy/SUNY
Last modified by: Laura Wait/SUNY
Composed: 03/11/2003 04:17 PM
Curriculum Committee Approval Date:
Modified: 10/16/2017
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Course Number: (prefix) HIS (number) 243054 ESC 2.0 Course number:

Name: Fire and Western Civilization
Datatel Title: (30char) Fire and Western Civilization

Area Coordinator: Dana Gliserman-Kopans Department Code: 10LH Team: Humanities

Liberal Study? YES Level: UPPER Credits: 4 Prerequisite? YES
General Education Course? YES GenEd Approval Term/Year:

GenEd Area 1: 5. Western Civilization	Fully or Partially: f
GenEd Area 2:	Fully or Partially:

Pre-registration Information?

Course will be offered (for online course descriptions, proposed offerings for by term views and web views)	Course will be offered (for final term listings, online registration, online bookordering, web views)
First Term Offered: (Required Format: YearTerm - i.e., 2005SP) Last Term Offered in Print Version: Title Changes: Not being offered per Susan Fox 10/16/17 LWait AC Changes: Changed from Sheila Aird 10GL TO Dana Glisserman-Kopans 10LH effective fall '17 term. Catalog updated 6/22/17. LWait
BK Number: 25

Description: Survey the history of civilization as the story of humanity’s relationship to fire, one of the most productive and most destructive forces we live with. Learn how fire, as a tool and as a technology, shaped both the landscape and ecology of the planet and the culture and psyche of the primate who tamed it. Understand the role that domesticated fire played in pre-agrarian and agrarian societies; in ancient Greece and Rome; in Asia and in pre-contact North America; in pre-industrial Europe; in Asia and Australia; and (through the burning of coal and petroleum) in creating the modern industrial age and the largest public policy problem we face today, Global Warming. Integrate perspectives from anthropology, sociology, ecology, engineering, religious studies and social and environmental history in grasping both the similarities (all civilizations controlled fire) and differences (no other civilization systematically exploited fossil fuel on the scale that Western Civilization did) between Western and non-Western civilizations. Learn about the development and distinctive features of Western civilization and the relation of Western Civilization’s development to other regions of the world by investigating environmental history. Trace how humanity’s evolving control of fire shaped the institutions, economies, social relations, cultural characteristics and practices of human societies over time.

Prerequisite: successful completion of either World History 1 or 2; evidence of readiness for upper-level study (completion of two years' college credit).

This course fully meets the General Education requirement in Western Civilization.

Generic:

Major Course Area Community & Human Services, Historical Studies	Minor Course Area Environmental Studies, Fire Protection, History and Civilizations	SLN Disciplines History
Additional Course Requirements WWW Computer Conference		Undergrad Certificate Association:

0

Required Booknote:

Optional Booknote:

Archive Course: Yes
Archived for Development: Yes

genedcode for dpplanner: 5^f~8

genedfull area for dpplanner: Western Civilization