This course will introduce students to the subdisciplines of cultural and linguistic anthropology, focusing on the social aspects of human existence. It will explore the importance of language and culture in understanding such topics as social organization, kinship, religion, environment, and technology. It will also introduce the anthropological themes of holism, comparison, integration, adaptation, universals, and cultural relativism. Case studies of Western and non-Western people will be discussed. An examination of how biological anthropologists and archaeologists go about their work.
Emphasis is on biocultural interactions.
An interdisciplinary course based on history, culture, and water issues. It will explore the cultural heritage and creativity of groups whose historical experience has been shaped by the Rio Grande basin from its origin in Colorado to its mouth in the Gulf of Mexico. The course will engage a broad American and international public in the exploration of how the river basin and the people who live within it change, evolve, and develop together, and can affect each other. Dr. Mario Monta o Environmental Ethics Study of values underlying human relations to the natural environment. Conflicts between values.