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ERS 265Water: Environmental History and Change

Units
0.50
Faculty
Environment
Subject
Environment, Resources and Sustainability

Not in the current Undergraduate Calendar. Shown as it appeared in 2025–26.

When it runs

  1. F24
  2. W25
  3. S25
  4. F25
  5. W26
  6. S26
  7. F26
  8. W27
  9. S27

Ran in 0 of the last 7 terms. Winter 2027: not on the schedule. Spring 2027: schedule not out yet.

This course explores issues of water management from ancient to recent history. Tensions related to water supply and demand, agriculture and urbanization, health and sanitation, gender and household access to water resources, urban water and wastewater infrastructure, trans-boundary politics, and water privatization debates are considered. Readings and detailed assessments of national and international cases from Europe, Western Asia, and North America are used as a basis for in-class discussion and research projects.

Prerequisites

  • Students must be in level 2A or higher

Antirequisites

None listed.

Leads to

No course lists it as a requisite.

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  • Interesting content for sure, but prof. Wolfe is a really hard marker. She gives these super detailed but extensive instructions of what shes looking for and you could follow each point, talk to her, etc. and still only get 65%... not really sure what she was looking for but it was an interesting class nonetheless.

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Fall 2017

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