CULTURE AND ENVIRONMENT: ANTHROPOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
ANT3CAE
Not currently offered
Credit points: 15
Subject outline
Environmental issues such as climate change, consumption, globalisation and conserving biodiversity are of growing importance and interest to people around the world. Considering the diversity of human environmental knowledges, beliefs and behaviours, anthropology has an important contribution to make in understanding these issues in terms of theory, empirical research and proposed solutions. Drawing on a range of ethnographic case studies from industrial, rural and small scale societies to illustrate the diversity of human responses to environmental change this subject familiarises students with the main theoretical currents in environmental anthropology and provides them with a selection of anthropological frameworks for thinking about human - environment interactions.
School: School of Humanities & Social Sciences
Credit points: 15
Subject Co-ordinator: Nicholas Smith
Available to Study Abroad Students: Yes
Subject year level: Year Level 3 - UG
Exchange Students: Yes
Subject particulars
Subject rules
Prerequisites: N/A
Co-requisites: N/A
Incompatible subjects: ANT2CAE
Equivalent subjects: N/A
Special conditions: N/A
Graduate capabilities & intended learning outcomes
01. Apply an anthropological perspective in relation to local and global issues
- Activities:
- Human values and behaviours in relation to environmental issues are global phenomena and the class and tutorial discussions, as well as the essays, will explore this aspect of environmental anthropology.
02. Apply ethical and cultural awareness of issues in Anthropology
- Activities:
- Both the essays and the class and tutorial discussion will give students ample opportunity to explore the ethical dimensions of human environmental values and behaviours.
03. Critically evaluate diverse positions/arguments regarding a relevant topic in Anthropology
- Activities:
- The class and tutorial discussion including the group based presentation will encourage debate around diverse positions and arguments, which will feed into the writing of the minor and major essays.
04. Critically evaluate research and arguments on a relevant topic in Anthropology
- Activities:
- The literature reviews and secondary source research for the major and minor essay will require critical evaluation of work on a relevant topic.
05. Present a sustained complex written argument in Anthropology
- Activities:
- The major essay will give 3rd year students the opportunity to present a sustained complex written argument.
06. Produce an original, well researched response to a relevant topic in Anthropology
- Activities:
- The Major Essay will give 3rd year students the space in which to produce well resolved written research in line with this ILO.