printer friendly pageHISTORY 284F: Islamic Eurasia: Empires, Nomads and Merchants (1300-1850) (HISTORY 384F)
Focuses on political regimes, economic interactions and sociocultural formations in the early modern Balkans and Middle East to Central and South Asia. Topics include complex political systems of the Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal empires; experiences of various Muslim, Christian, Jewish and Hindu, as well as urban, rural and nomadic communities; consolidation of transregional commerce and cultural exchange; incorporation of the Islamic world in the global economy; transimperial networks of the Muslim and Non-Muslim merchants, scholars and sufis.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
HISTORY 291A: Archaeology and Modernity in Asia: The Excavation of Ancient Civilizations in Modern Times (HISTORY 391A)
The interplay in Asia between antiquity and modernity, civilization and nation state, and national versus colonial science. The recent excavation of artifacts and places associated with Asian civilization such as the terracotta warriors in China and Angkor Wat in Cambodia. How Asian states have grappled with modernity and colonialism as they simultaneously dug up their ancient pasts.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
HUMBIO 2B: Culture, Evolution, and Society
Introduction to the evolutionary study of human diversity. Hominid evolution, the origins of social complexity, social theory, and the emergence of the modern world system, emphasizing the concept of culture and its influence on human differences.
HUMBIO 2A and 2B must be taken concurrently.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-SI, WAY-SMA
HUMBIO 3B: Behavior, Health, and Development
Research and theory on human behavior, health, and life span development. How biological factors and cultural practices influence cognition, emotion, motivation, personality, and health in childhood, adolescence, and adulthood.
HUMBIO 3A and 3B must be taken concurrently.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-SI
Instructors:
Fernald, A. (PI)
;
Lyons, D. (PI)
HUMBIO 4B: Environmental and Health Policy Analysis
Connections among the life sciences, social sciences, public health, and public policy. The economic, social, and institutional factors that underlie environmental degradation, the incidence of disease, and inequalities in health status and access to health care. Public policies to address these problems. Topics include pollution regulation, climate change policy, biodiversity protection, health care reform, health disparities, and women's health policy.
HUMBIO 4A and 4B must be taken concurrently.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
HUMBIO 114: Environmental Change and Emerging Infectious Diseases (ANTHRO 177, ANTHRO 277)
The changing epidemiological environment. How human-induced environmental changes, such as global warming, deforestation and land-use conversion, urbanization, international commerce, and human migration, are altering the ecology of infectious disease transmission, and promoting their re-emergence as a global public health threat. Case studies of malaria, cholera, hantavirus, plague, and HIV.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
Instructors:
Durham, W. (PI)
;
Jones, J. (PI)
HUMBIO 117H: Human Behavioral Ecology (ANTHRO 161, ANTHRO 261)
Theory, method, and application in anthropology. How theory in behavioral ecology developed to understand animal behavior is applied to questions about human economic decision making in ecological and evolutionary contexts. Topics include decisions about foraging and subsistence, competition and cooperation, mating, and reproduction and parenting.
Last offered: Spring 2013
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-SI, WAY-SMA
HUMBIO 118: Theory of Ecological and Environmental Anthropology (ANTHRO 90C)
Dynamics of culturally inherited human behavior and its relationship to social and physical environments. Topics include a history of ecological approaches in anthropology, subsistence ecology, sharing, risk management, territoriality, warfare, and resource conservation and management. Case studies from Australia, Melanesia, Africa, and S. America.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
Instructors:
Bird, D. (PI)
;
Curran, L. (PI)
HUMBIO 122S: Social Class, Race, Ethnicity, and Health
Examines health disparities in the U.S., looking at the patterns of those disparities and their root causes. Explores the intersection of lower social class and ethnic minority status in affecting health status and access to health care. Compares social and biological conceptualizations of race and ethnicity.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
HUMBIO 148W: Women, Fertility, and Work (ANTHRO 151, ANTHRO 251)
How do choices relating to bearing, nursing, and raising children influence women's participation in the labor force? Cultural, demographic, and evolutionary explanations, using crosscultural case studies. Emphasis is on understanding fertility and work in light of the options available to women at particular times and places.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-Gender
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