People, Plants, and Place: The story of human history is in many ways the story of the complex relationship between people and plants. As the basis of human diets, plants feed us, but they do so much more. Plants cure us when we’re sick, provide us building materials, make us money, give us visions, and—critically—form the basis for how we make sense of our place(s) in the world. In this course, we will investigate some of the ways human-plant relationships have shaped human societies around the world and cultivate our own relationships with the plant world on campus.
- Teacher: Dave Himmelfarb