Master's programme in global environmental history
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Environmental history is an interdisciplinary subject that explores the complex relationship between humans and nature throughout history. The focus is on historical changes, events, debates and analytical perspectives on the relations between human societies and natural environments. By analysing these relationships in environmental history we also have the ambition to better interpret, explain and debate contemporary issues of sustainability.
The programme provides an overview of long-term historical processes of interaction between human societies and natural conditions. You will gain a deeper insight into various aspects of how the relationship between humans and nature has changed both from a prehistoric perspective and from the perspective of the emergence of modern states and recent global power relations.
The Master's Programme in Global Environmental History intends to give you advanced theoretical and empirical knowledge of social scientific and humanistic analyses of relationships between humans and nature. The programme provides a good basis for further research studies, as well as for a labour market that increasingly demands broad and interdisciplinary skills in social analysis in the environmental and sustainability fields.
During the programme, you will critically and independently identify and analyse the key issues and debates in global environmental history and relate them to current problems of sustainability.
The programme concludes with a Master's thesis that is supervised by teachers and researchers from various disciplines.