CONS 352 - Environmental Anthropology

Credits: (3)
College Curriculum: COLL 200, COLL 350
Domain (Anchored): ALV
Additional Domain (if applicable): CSI
Environmental anthropology explores cultures, societies, and the environment. We will consider how people experience, use, know, and care for the world differently across collectives and cultures. We will assess how anthropology has approached the environment in relation to race, gender, power, materiality, relations, values, meanings, rituals, and systems of knowledge (including science and technology).
Environmental Anthropology is a COLL 200, based in ANTH and cross-listed with CONS and ENSP. Examining the environment cross-culturally, this course is rooted in Culture, Society, and the Individual (CSI). Because you will also be exposed to the multiple values, morals, and norms associated with the environment, the course is also rooted in Arts, Letters, and Values (ALV).
Environmental Anthropology is also a COLL 350 course, enhancing your knowledge and facilitating your critical analysis of the workings of power, privilege, and inequity in U.S. society and globally, past and present. Because COLL 350 require critical reflection, be ready to feel slightly uncomfortable and, above all, to engage in respectful dialogue.
Cross-listed with: ANTH 352