ANTH 129: Disasters!
San Jose State University
Anthropological exploration of disasters as historically produced processes across sociocultural contexts and through time. Students will learn how to critically interrogate the concept of ¿nature¿ and how disasters are produced. The course centers on everyday social relations, political¿economic histories, and human relationships with other species and material environments to show how risk, hazards, and vulnerability are made¿and remade¿in place. Topics include nature, resource use, climate change, biodiversity, waste, disaster governance and humanitarian response, displacement and recovery, and cooperation and social support. Through comparative ethnographic cases, students gain tools to critically assess media and policy claims and to envision sustainable, community¿grounded approaches to disaster risk reduction. Prerequisite(s): ANTH 11. High Impact Practice: Diversity/Global Learning.
Average GPA: 3.09
Grade distribution records: 93 students across 5 terms.
Grade distribution
| Grade | Students | Percent |
|---|---|---|
| A+ | 9 | 9.7% |
| A | 16 | 17.2% |
| A- | 22 | 23.7% |
| B+ | 2 | 2.2% |
| B | 18 | 19.4% |
| B- | 10 | 10.8% |
| C+ | 2 | 2.2% |
| C | 5 | 5.4% |
| D+ | 2 | 2.2% |
| D | 1 | 1.1% |
| F | 6 | 6.5% |
Based on 93 student grade records across 5 terms and 1 professor.
Instructors
- Albert J Faas 93 students, Average GPA 3.09