Instructor: Hsain Ilahiane
Mon & Wed | 1:00 PM - 1:50 PM | In-Person | Seven Week Two Session
This course introduces students to the orders of global culture and power that influence human living and working conditions worldwide, as well as the capacity of human beings to alter those conditions. Through an anthropological lens, it explores concepts, methods, and data from a broad range of disciplines. The course adopts an interdisciplinary perspective-ethnographic, historical and geographic--on issues of vital concern for understanding local problems in a global context. The course will probe specific issues such as sustainable development, resilience, global organizations, world trade, international debt, environment and natural resource management, poverty, global health, population growth, world hunger, migration, information and communication technologies, and indigenous peoples and human rights.