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ARCHIVED 2019-2020 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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ENVI 305 - Cultural Ecology4.00 credit hours
(Same as: ANTH 305 .) Examines human engagements with the physical environment from earlyhomo sapiensto the present. Topics include major adaptive strategies (foraging, horticulture, intensive agriculture, pastoralism and industrialism) and their social correlates and environmental consequences; factors that lead to collapse of complex societies in the archaeological past; mercantile and colonial engagements and resulting changes in resource use; and contemporary resource conflicts between small-scale societies and states and corporate interests.
Prerequisite(s): One of: ANTH 145 , ANTH 165 or ENVI 120 .
Cardinal Directions Designation(s): Social Science, Global Understanding.
iCon(s): Innovating the World, Sustaining Our World.
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