ENVS 203 - Environmental Anthropology

FC SSCI CD

4 credits
In this course, we will use the analytical tools of cultural anthropology to investigate the relationship between humans and the environment. Drawing on emergent debates in the field of environmental anthropology, we will consider how different cultural contexts understand, produce, and protect the environment. Students will learn how to use this lens to navigate an uncertain environmental future in a culturally informed and socially just manner. Specific areas of focus will include unsettling the nature/culture binary, theories of non-human agency, interspecies kinship and care, political and cultural ecology, growth and degrowth, capitalism and colonial dispossession, and environmental futures.

Sustainability
This course is appropriate for new students.