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SSCI 125 - Pacific Island Peoples

Course Description

  • Recommended Prep: ENG 22/60 OR placement in ENG 100

This course is a survey of Pacific Island societies, using social science perspectives to analyze the effects of environmental constraints, cultural tradition, historical experience, political and economic development, and social change upon the peoples of Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. It will give students an understanding of the major problems and alternative futures which Pacific island communities now face. Cross-listed as ANTH 135.