SOC 364 - Population & Environment ?

Institution:

University of Maine at Fort Kent

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Description:

Prerequisites: Soc 100 Ant 100 Soc 101 or permission of instructor. This course will cover demographic concepts such as fertility and mortality rates and the effects of migration. global cultural patterns: foragers subsistence farmers peasant farmers urbanites and industrialism with relation to population pressures and resource use. family value systems cross-culturally and historically that affect family size. the effects of economic change and colonialism on world populations. the effects of 20th century population growth on natural resources such as clean air and water. and the effects of contemporary industrial over-consumption on allocation of resources. We will take a cross-cultural and global approach. Students will be expected to design a research project that identifies a population problem impacting a localized environment and propose a culturally useable solution to it.

Credits:

3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.umfk.maine.edu

Phone Number:

(207) 834-7500

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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