ENV 495-01 - Senior Seminar: Botanical Imperialism

4 credits (Spring)

This class will be a mix of history, historical ecology, ethnobotany, plant taxonomy and biogeography. It will explore how agriculture, silviculture and horticulture have created novel anthropogenic ecosystems that not only became the trophic foundations of human civilizations, but transformed entire biomes, shifted the distribution of species, inflicted widespread extinction, propagated weeds and other invasive organisms, and even changed patterns of rainfall, drought and climate.

Prerequisite: Open to Junior and Senior Environmental Studies Concentrators.
Instructor: Campbell