At the Top of the World: Arctic Histories

ARCTIC 321/ 321
  • Quarters: Winter
  • General Education Requirements: SSc, DIV

History of human understanding of and relationship to the Arctic by tracing the social, economic, political, and environmental transformations of the Earth’s northernmost region, from earliest settlements to the end of the twentieth century (the creation of the Arctic Council in 1996), as well as shifts in ideas that accompanied these changes.