ANTH313-25S1 (C) Semester One 2025

Environment, Development and Sustainability: Anthropological Perspectives

30 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 17 February 2025
End Date: Sunday, 22 June 2025
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 2 March 2025
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 11 May 2025

Description

This course is concerned with the social and ecological impacts of human activity in the context of a global fossil fuel civilization. Investigating problems of climate change, declining biodiversity, and environmental degradation, it provides an anthropologically informed perspective on crucial issues at the intersection of ecology, sustainable development, and social activism.

Learning Outcomes

After taking this course, students are expected to:

a) Understand the ways how anthropologists have understood kinship and family historically, and how these understandings have shifted in line with broader theoretical and methodological changes in the discipline.

b) Appreciate the cross-cultural variation in how kinship and the family are conceptualized and practiced, and the role of these conceptualizations and practices in the structuring and conduct of social relations.

c) Understand how conceptions and practice of family and kinship are shaped by the broader socio-cultural, economic and political contexts.

d) Be able to apply the theories and methods learned to the analysis of kinship and family systems.

e) To have a better appreciation of cultural variations in New Zealand and the world

Prerequisites

Any 30 points at 200 level from ANTH, GEOG, or
SOCI, or
any 60 points at 200 level from the Schedule V of the BA.

Restrictions

Timetable 2025

Students must attend one activity from each section.

Lecture A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Monday 14:00 - 16:00 E14 Lecture Theatre
17 Feb - 6 Apr
28 Apr - 1 Jun
Tutorial A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Tuesday 13:00 - 14:00 Ernest Rutherford 141
24 Feb - 6 Apr
28 Apr - 1 Jun
02 Tuesday 14:00 - 15:00 Ernest Rutherford 460
24 Feb - 6 Apr
28 Apr - 1 Jun

Lecturer

Amba Sepie

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,788.00

International fee $8,200.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

Minimum enrolments

This course will not be offered if fewer than 15 people apply to enrol.

For further information see Language, Social and Political Sciences .

All ANTH313 Occurrences

  • ANTH313-25S1 (C) Semester One 2025