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ENV 305 - Cultural Ecology

3.00 credit hours
(Same as: SOA 305 .) Examines human engagements with the physical environment from early homo sapiens to 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 SOA 105 , SOA 165  or ENV 120 .


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