The course promotes the ability to understand the contemporary human behavior in relation to the natural and anthropic environment and to non-human species. This will occur through the analysis and reconstruction of the evolution of human-nature relationship in biological and cultural terms, with particular attention to the key points of human evolutionary history. The student will learn the main theories of the co-evolutionary process of the biological and cultural human structure. The student will also acquire the necessary skills for the preparation of critical analysis texts on the main issues related to man-nature relationship, as well as the basic knowledge essential for formulating judgments on textual works on the sphere of human ecology. The course topics are functional to the scientific-historical learning area.
Course Prerequisites
The course does not require educational prerequisites.
Teaching Methods
The training objectives of the course will be achieved through lectures for a total of 48 hours. Classroom lessons will be carried out with the help of slides and videos that will be made available to students on the E-learning platform. To promote the skills of critical analysis of the knowledge acquired, international scientific publications on human ecology will be presented and discussed collegially. To improve the interdisciplinarity of the subject, lessons can be integrated by specific workshops.
Assessment Methods
The exam will be oral for a duration of 20 minutes. The knowledge acquired will be evaluated through 4 specific questions that will concern the topics presented in class: • the knowledge related to the topics presented during the course (70%) • the critical analysis skills of the main theories of the co-evolutionary processes of the biological and cultural traits of the human species (30%). The answers will be evaluated with regard to both the real acquisition of the notions provided in class and the ability to analyze them critically.
Contents
Through an interdisciplinary approach the main biological, cultural, social and environmental processes affecting the current man-environment relationship will be investigated. Specific contents will be: the essential characters of the biological and demographic evolution of the human species, the characteristic elements of the human biological nature, the co-evolutionary path of the biological and cultural traits of the human species, the development of critical attitudes to the analysis of current perception patterns of the external reality, the genesis and evolution of the scientific basis of the theories related to the position of mankind in the natural context.
Course Language
Italian
More information
The teacher is available for interview with the students by e-mail appointment (silvia.quadroni@uninsubria.it).
