Ecology of Crime

Catalog description

This class presents the dynamic relationship between humans their natural and cultural environment. We will look at human-human relationships and crime, and how technological advancement may be the reason behind the decline of species. Stemming from cultural ecology concepts, this class teaches the students how human populations, through their culturally-patterned behaviors and interactions with their environment, have evolved. This class will explore behaviors and associated beliefs, how humans adjust strategically to their environments and of how such adjustments make human groups an active part of those environments whether enhance, modify or destroy it. The class will address environmental crime and catastrophes induced from human actions.