ANTH 2485 — Environment, Technology, and Society

4 semester hoursUndergraduateLectureNUpath SIusually offered: springtypical days: TBostonTraditional

Focuses on the connections between the development of modern nation-states and the control of nature. Explores the role human societies play in such events as climate change, tsunamis, and droughts. Studies how industrialization and the process of science and technology development are related to our transforming environmental conditions, as well as how the social sciences, the sciences, and engineering are transforming to address these issues. Draws on social theory, environmental history, anthropology, sociology, art, design, and open-source technologies to investigate theoretically and methodologically the sources, experiences of, and solutions for environmental health questions.

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Offering history

TermSectionsEnrolledCapacityFullOpen seats/section
Spring 202411010100%0.0
Spring 2025199100%0.0
Fall 202516967%3.0
Spring 2026191090%1.0

Snapshots from scheduled scrapes — not live seat availability. "Full" can exceed 100% when sections over-enroll.

Meeting times

Share of recent sections by weekday: M 0% · T 56% · W 18% · Th 26% · F 29%

Common patterns: TF (29% of sections), T (26% of sections), R (26% of sections), W (18% of sections) — in patterns, R means Thursday

Professors

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Spring

Percentages are each professor's average share of the season's enrolled students in recent terms.

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