POPULATION AND CULTURE   [Archived Catalog]
2017-2018 Undergraduate Catalog
   

ANTH 1792 - POPULATION AND CULTURE


Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course centers its attention on the complex interplay between demographic process and outcomes (such as fertility and population growth, population decline and mortality, and migration) on the one hand, and social/cultural evolution and social/ cultural forms studied by cultural anthropologists and archaeologists. We will critically review major concepts and theories in demography and demographic anthropology. Course takes the subject matter of population dynamics as the framework for examining important anthropological themes, debates and theories in the context of different societies/cultures.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PLAN: Anthropology (BA)


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