Course Details
Country:
Japan
Institution:
Hosei University
Course Title:
Human and Environment
Course Number:
C3554
Course Description:
Human and Environment” is an introductory course to learn anthropological theories and discussions on the relationship between cultures and the environment.
Through reading theoretical and ethnographic works by scholars of anthropology — a discipline that has historically investigated questions about the environment — this course aims to explore the ways in which people’s lives are shaped by different cultural, political, and ecological contexts, and how anthropological theories provide tools for understanding complex human-environment relations. Through examining literatures in environmental anthropology, this course will also explore the ways in which human-environment relations have been interpreted by anthropologists and also how environmental anthropologists have contributed to broader debates about concepts like modernity, globalization, power, kinship, and science and technology.
The goal of this course is not to teach solutions to environmental problems, but to provide tools to think critically about such issues. In order to accomplish this, it will be important for students to remain engaged not only toward reading materials but also other class participants. I expect students to read and work through the arguments, debates, themes, and perspectives of the class readings; the key point here is “critical engagement.” By critical engagement, I mean that students are to carefully read and consider the texts, and to understand and discuss the intentions of the author, whether or not they agree with his/her opinions or conclusions.
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
ANTH 370
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