MUST 22000 UNNATURAL HISTORIES: SCIENCE AND NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUMS What is natural about natural history? This course offers a historical overview of the development and evolution of natural history museums in the United States, followed by three thematic units: Whose Nature?, Public Health, and Climate Change. We begin by understanding how ideas from scholars like Charles Darwin and Carl Linnaeus influenced the development of early natural history museums and then move into analyzing the ways that todays museums situate and promote science, particularly around climate change and human equality and health. [D, HSS]
- Teacher: Beth Derderian