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Course Name	Turkish	Antropoloji
	English	Anthropology
Course Code	ITB 233E	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	1	2	3	-	-
Course Language		English
Course Coordinator		Bülent Arıkan
Course Objectives		(1) Teaching the complex and dynamic relationships between human societies and their environment throughout the evolutionary history, (2)Teaching the similarities and disparities in human-environment relationships from the beginning of farming to the Industrial Revolution, (3)Teaching how Cultural Ecology may shed light on vital issues for both the past and the future human societies.
Course Description		This course will focus on two separate yet complementary aspects of environmental studies within the general framework of anthropology. The first aspect to be covered is the ecological-evolutionary perspective, which correlates to the theme of change and stability in social systems. Consequently, the course will also cover the anthropological methods of research. The second aspect of this course is a historical survey of how human-environment relationships evolved through time, in terms of the use of natural resources, socio-political development, the emergence of resource management methods and techniques, and the sustainability of cultural practices of resource exploitation.
Course Outcomes		This course will cover theories and concepts in Cultural Ecology (e.g., Human Behavioral Ecology, Cultural Materialism, Political Ecology, Ecological Anthropology, and Historical Ecology), methods of research (i.e., field work, literary research, calculating flow of energy, and analyses of environmental change), and case studies from around the world. As a whole, the discussions on concepts-methods-case studies aim to expose students to various perspectives, which are rooted in behavioral science, about the history and evolution of human-nature interactions.
Pre-requisite(s)		None
Required Facilities		None
Other		None
Textbook		[1] Haenn, Nora and Richard R. Wilk (ed.s). 2005. The Environment in Anthropology. A Reader in Ecology, Culture, and Sustainable Living. New york University Press, New York.
Other References		[2] Butzer, Karl W. 1982. Archaeology as human Ecology: Method and Theory for a Contextual Approach. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [3] Hornborg, Alf and Carole L. Crumley (ed.s) 2006. The World System and the Earth System. Left Coast Press, Walnut Creek.

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