Curriculum
Culture & Environment
| Approved Concentration Courses: Culture & Environment Track Advisor Karen Larson & Rich Hilbert
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111.CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY(1 course)
An introduction to the discipline of anthropology and to the study of simple and complex societies. Universal aspects of human culture, including kinship, economic, political, and religious systems, are examined in cross-cultural perspective. SOSCI and NWEST, Fall and Spring semesters.
239.POPULATION PROBLEMS(1 course)
The study of world population problems. Attention is given to the fundamentals of population study with emphasis on population process and problems. SOSCI, January Term.
243. GLOBALIZATION (1 course)
Globalization has become one of the defining processes of the contemporary world, as nations, communities, and regions are being linked through the world economy. The course will familiarize students with various theoretical perspectives proposed to explain globalization. Attention will be given to the politics and economics of globalization as well as to key issues, such as global crime, information technology, and the environment. NWEST, Spring semester.
258. AFRICAN CULTURE IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
The Atlantic slave trade forced millions of Africans to Latin America and the Caribbean. This course examines the origins, character, and persistence of diverse African cultures in the New World as well as their extraordinarily colorful and creative hybridization through interactions with European and indigenous languages and traditions. This includes African dialects, religions, music, art, dance, family structures and values, folk psychologies, healing practices, and more. The goal is to understand the origins and development of Afro-Latin and Afro-Caribbean cultural experience and the dynamics of cultural change from an anthropological perspective. NWEST, Fall semester.
IIDS-213. Indigenous People Globally