printer friendly pageHUMBIO 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.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-SI, WAY-SMA
Instructors:
Bird, R. (PI)
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)
HUMBIO 119: Demography: Health, Development, Environment (BIO 102)
Demographic methods and their application to understanding and projecting changes in human infant, child, and adult mortality and health, fertility, population, sex ratios, and demographic transitions. Progress in human development, capabilities, and freedoms. Relationships between population and environment. Prerequisites: numeracy and basic statistics; Biology or Human Biology core; or consent of instructor.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
Instructors:
Tuljapurkar, S. (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
HUMBIO 149L: Longevity (NENS 202, PSYCH 102)
Interdisciplinary. Challenges to and solutions for the young from increased human life expectancy: health care, financial markets, families, work, and politics. Guest lectures from engineers, economists, geneticists, and physiologists.
Last offered: Winter 2012
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-SI
HUMBIO 177C: Culture, Narrative, and Medicine (ANTHRO 178A)
This course examines the ways in which medicine is practiced in diverse cultural contexts with narrative skills of recognizing, interpreting and being moved by the stories of illness. It is an examination of the human experience of illness and healing through narratives as presented in literature, film, and storytelling. We explore how cultural resources enable and empower healing and how narrative medicine can guide the practice of culturally competent medical care.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-CE, WAY-EDP
Instructors:
Murphy-Shigematsu, S. (PI)
HUMBIO 179S: Spirituality and Healing (ANTHRO 184)
The puzzle of symbolic healing. How have societies without the resources of modern medicine approached healing? Why do these rituals have common features around the world? Shamanism, spirit possession, prayer, and the role of placebos in modern biomedicine. Students do ethnographic work and practical explorations along with more traditional scholarly approaches to learning.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
Instructors:
Luhrmann, T. (PI)
INTNLREL 1: Introduction to International Relations (POLISCI 1)
Approaches to the study of conflict and cooperation in world affairs. Applications to war, terrorism, trade policy, the environment, and world poverty. Debates about the ethics of war and the global distribution of wealth.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-AQR, WAY-SI
Instructors:
Tomz, M. (PI)
INTNLREL 102: The History of the International System since 1914 (HISTORY 102)
After defining the characteristics of the international system at the beginning of the twentieth century, this course reviews the primary developments in its functioning in the century that followed. Topics include the major wars and peace settlements; the emergence of Nazism and Communism; the development of the Cold War and nuclear weapons; the rise of China, India, and the EU; and the impact of Islamic terrorism. The role of international institutions and international society will also be a focus as will the challenge of environment, health, poverty, and climate issues to the functioning of the system.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI, GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom
Instructors:
Naimark, N. (PI)
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