Importance, identification, dissemination and biology of weeds; preventive, cultural, biological and chemical methods of control.

How environmental factors and landpeople relationships control the distribution of soil types in the landscape and the changes of soil properties in space and time. Prerequisite: APBI_V 200.

An anthropological perspective on the historical origins and theoretical explanations of social inequality.

Anthropological approaches to foodways and agricultural sustainability, particularly small-scale producers and communities. Includes ethnographic analysis of food movements, food systems and the socio-economic contexts of food provisioning and food production. Recommended: Third year status.

Anthropological perspectives on health, illness, and disability as represented by classic and contemporary research in selected topics in medical anthropology including disease and human evolution, illness and human ecology, culture and epidemiology, ethnomedical systems, the relationship between folk and biomedicine and the cultural construction and social organization of health care, illness and disability. Specific content will vary from year to year. Consult the Department brochure.