Oct 28, 2024  
2024-2025 Academic Catalog 
  
2024-2025 Academic Catalog
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ANTH 2251 - Environmental Anthropology


Credits: 3

This course focuses on the study of past and present human societies and their interaction with the environment. Societies are analyzed in anthropological terms according to their modes of production, social organization, and worldview. Environmental constraints and opportunities acting on cultural development are examined. Students will learn how successful adaptation to factors of climate and geography, the conservation of species, and management of available resources have contributed to sociocultural survival or collapse in documented cases.

Recommended Skills, Abilities, or Coursework: College level mathematics, reading, and writing

MnTC Goal(s): Goals 5B and 10



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