Instructor: Sally
Steindorf
Prerequisites: None
Material
and skills covered:
This
class will look at environmental issues from the perspective of cultural anthropology.
In other words, we will be looking at how different cultures around the world
interact with their environments. Some of the questions we will examine
include: How do different societies
around the world vary in their definitions of nature? What does it mean to say
that nature is a cultural construction? How do race, social class and gender
impact the experience of ecological degradation? What are some of the
strategies societies around the world have developed to maintain their
environments?
Methods used:
Discussion, documentary films, field
trip, some lecture
Grade determined by:
Papers, exams, oral presentations,
attendance & participation, response to readings
Attendance policy:
Attendance is factored into your
participation grade
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