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ANTH 0700 - CLIMATE CHANGE AND CONSERVATION: LESSONS FROM THE GLOBAL SOUTHMinimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Focused on examples of environmental problems, conservation projects, and development schemes in Asia, Africa and Latin America, this course is designed to prepare students for an intensive summer study abroad program From the Himalaya to the Andes. This course has no prerequisites and is open to all students. Students enrolled in this class will be given priority admission to the summer program, but enrollment in the summer program is not a requirement for taking this class. Anthropogenic changes to the environment that have accelerated rapidly following 19th century industrialization, the colonial extraction of raw materials for infrastructure and energy production - iron, coal, oil - and intensive investments in modernization worldwide during the 20th century are directly linked to climate change, extinction, and pollution on a global scale. Formerly colonized regions of the world have been most severely affected. At the same time, some of the most important lessons for understanding the value of biodiversity, sustainable development, frugal innovation and the equitable distribution of increasingly scarce resources can be learned by studying experiments, policies and investments in conservation from Asia, Africa, and Latin America. The goal of this course is to learn from the success and failures of these efforts in order to understand the "nature" of the Anthropocene as a global problem with local solutions that involve people making radical changes that extend from their way of thinking to the social and cultural institutions they create and control. The course is innovatively interdisciplinary, reflecting contemporary anthropological methods and theory. It is creatively structured around a series of public guest lectures given by leading, internationally recognized scholars representing a spectrum of disciplines. The class will meet twice a week, once for a lecture and once for a seminar discussion focused on reading assignments chosen to highlight anthropological problems, questions and analytical perspectives that relate to the weekly guest lecture. The course will be offered every spring term with funding for the guest lectures provided by the Asian Studies Center. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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