ANTH 2251 - Environmental Anthropology

1. Identify the goals and methods employed by anthropologists in the field.
2. Illustrate basic concepts that are relevant to a discussion of environmental anthropology.
3. Interpret basic environmental principles and evaluate them as a foundation for discussing the impact of humans on the environment.
4. Analyze through case studies the different ways human cultural choices impact environments.
5. Analyze the effect of population growth on environments.
6. Investigate the interaction of historic climate change and society with respect to technology, social organization, political organization, and other aspects of culture.
7. Assess ethnographic data in light of human relationships with the environment.
8. Interpret the cultural construction of gender, reproductive patterns, and religious beliefs in environmental terms.
9. Evaluate the implications of anthropological (including archaeological) environmental research to modern global society.
10. Consider the remaining indigenous cultures today, including how successfully they maintain traditional relationships with the environment, and what those relationships can teach us.
11. Prioritize the problems of global environmental conservation.

1. Introductory Principles of Cultural Anthropology
2. Introductory Principles of Archaeology
3. Introductory Principles of Environmental Studies
4. Case Studies and Ethnographies pertaining to Environmental Anthropology
5. Population and Demographic Research
6. Climate Change
7. Indigenous Cultural Survival
8. Environmental Impacts of Modern Society