Course Description
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Anthropology is the study of human diversity, culturally and biologically, across time and space. Environmental Anthropology focuses on humans’ interactions with their environments. This course is an examination of many of the most important contemporary environmental issues from an anthropological perspective. We will examine population pressure, issues of economic development, loss of biodiversity, resource security, food, indigenous issues, and questions of globalization over the course of the next 15 weeks.
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This class will be taught as a seminar. As such, it requires your active participation. It is your responsibility to stay on top of the reading. Complete all reading assigned for a given day before coming to class. As the reading load is heavy, at times organize your time carefully and pace yourself — don’t do all the reading the day before class; this will affect the quality of your participation. Ten times over the course of the semester (about once a week) you will be required to submit a short (approximately 2 paragraph) response to the day’s readings, along with two questions for class discussion. These reading responses and discussion questions are due by midnight the night before class, in order that I can read and synthesize these responses for discussion in class.
- Teacher: Asya Anderson