Reading and composition courses based on the anthropological literature. These courses provide an introduction to issues distinctive of anthropological texts and introduce students to distinctive forms of anthropological writing, such as ethnography and anthropological prehistory. Readings will be chosen from a variety of texts by authors whose works span the discipline, from bioanthropology to archaeology and sociocultural anthropology. Satisfies the second half of the Reading and Composition requirement.

Interactions between people and the environment is unavoidable. Throughout human history cultures have consumed caloric resources to survive, produced waste, and often altered landscapes and ecosystems to suite their own ideas of efficiency and desired aesthetics. Nonetheless there are also instances where geological, hydrological, atmospheric, and biological forces have dictated the dynamic between specific environments and the human cultures that lived within them.

Instructor: Ben Siegel

Repeat Rules

Course is not repeatable for credit.

Requirements class fulfills