What Went Down on the Farm:
Stanford Campus as a Laboratory for Environmental History
History
53S
Sources & Methods Seminar
Winter Quarter 2007
Tuesdays and Thursdays
3:15 - 4:45 p.m.
Building 160, Room 325
Instructor:
Jon
Christensen
E-mail: jonchristensen@stanford.edu
Course Description:
Environmental history is made of earth and trees, maps and dreams, plans and problems, a world made and a world that might have been. The 8,400-acre Stanford campus and surrounding community from foothills to bay is our laboratory for digging into archives and exploring the landscape, learning hands-on techniques to uncover the past, understand the present, and think about the future in any place. Sources include archaeology, ecology, university business files, letters, photographs, trees, buildings, and the land itself, with field trips to Jasper Ridge, Stanford Shopping Mall, and points in between.
Course Materials:
Introductory Slideshow:
"What Went Down on the Farm" (18MB .mov file)
Extracurricular events of note:
University Grounds Manager Herb Fong will talk about campus grounds, trees, animals, natural habitat, and how the campus has evolved over the years at a Stanford Historical Society meeting March 14, 5p.m., at a location to be determined.
Noteworthy links:
"Eucalyptus Dreams" Bike Tour Guided by John Rawlings