| Academic Year |
2024Year |
School/Graduate School |
School of Integrated Arts and Sciences Department of Integrated Arts and Sciences |
| Lecture Code |
AGA06001 |
Subject Classification |
Specialized Education |
| Subject Name |
公害史 |
Subject Name
（Katakana） |
コウガイシ |
Subject Name in
English |
History of Environmental Issues |
| Instructor |
NAKAZAWA SATOSHI |
Instructor
(Katakana) |
ナカザワ サトシ |
| Campus |
Higashi-Hiroshima |
Semester/Term |
2nd-Year, Second Semester, 4Term |
| Days, Periods, and Classrooms |
(4T) Thur5-8：IAS K305 |
| Lesson Style |
Lecture |
Lesson Style
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| Credits |
2.0 |
Class Hours/Week |
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Language of Instruction |
J
:
Japanese |
| Course Level |
2
:
Undergraduate Low-Intermediate
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| Course Area（Area） |
23
:
Arts and Humanities |
| Course Area（Discipline） |
08
:
History of Science and Technology |
| Eligible Students |
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| Keywords |
Soil erosion, flood damage, radioactivity, marine pollution, global warming |
| Special Subject for Teacher Education |
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Special Subject |
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Class Status
within Educational
Program
(Applicable only to targeted subjects for undergraduate students) | |
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Criterion referenced
Evaluation
(Applicable only to targeted subjects for undergraduate students) | Integrated Arts and Sciences
（Knowledge and Understanding）
・Knowledge and understanding of the importance and characteristics of each discipline and basic theoretical framework.
・The knowledge and understanding to fully recognize the mutual relations and their importance among individual academic diciplines.
（Abilities and Skills）
・The abilities and skills to summarize one's own research in reports or academic papers, and to deliver presentations at a seminar or research meetings, and to answer questions. |
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Class Objectives
/Class Outline |
Technological progress and environmental degradation are twins in the history of civilization, and if the innovation that increases productivity is the theme of the history of technology, the history of environmental issues complements it. This course deals with the history of environmental degradation and resource depletion that occur as a trade-off against innovation intended to improve productivity.
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| Class Schedule |
lesson1: Introduction: Kôgai and Environmental Issues
lesson2: Kôgai never disappears
lesson3: Prometheus' Fire, Demeter's Grain
lesson4: Rise and Decline of the Irrigation Civilizations
lesson5: The Ancient Mediterranean Civilization
lesson6: The Medieval European Civilization
lesson7: People and Environment in the Japanese Archipelago in the Pre-modern Era (1)
lesson8: People and Environment in the Japanese Archipelago in the Pre-modern Era (2)
lesson9: Coal and Colonization
lesson10: Japan in the Modern Times
lesson11: Electrification and Dams
lesson12: Kôgai in the Century of Petroleum
lesson13: Nuclear Pollutions
lesson14: Beyond the Technological Lock-in
lesson15: Summary |
Text/Reference
Books,etc. |
Clive Ponting, A New Green History of the World : the Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations (New York: Penguin Books, 2007). |
PC or AV used in
Class,etc. |
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| Learning techniques to be incorporated |
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Suggestions on
Preparation and
Review |
This course is conducted in Japanese. Please see the Japanese syllabus for more detail. |
| Requirements |
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| Grading Method |
Report |
| Practical Experience |
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| Summary of Practical Experience and Class Contents based on it |
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| Message |
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| Other |
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Please fill in the class improvement questionnaire which is carried out on all classes.
Instructors will reflect on your feedback and utilize the information for improving their teaching. |