ANTH 330 - Political Ecology

Units: 3
Critical analysis of foundational texts and ethnographies in social, economic, and environmental anthropology. Examination of class, gender, ethnic, and ecological dynamics in the context of small-scale and global political economies.

Strongly Recommended Preparation: Completion of GE areas A1, A2, A3 and B4.
Possible Instructional Methods: Entirely On-ground.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice).
Course Typically Offered: Variable Intermittently

Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to;
identify, summarize, and sequence the basic schools of thought in social anthropology;
describe the basic intellectual orientations of Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, and Max Weber;
discuss the influences of historical materialism, structuralism and functionalism, and methodological individualism on contemporary social science research.