SHUM 2437

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  • Schedule of Classes - June 11, 2025 2:48PM EDT

SHUM 2437
Economy, Power, and Inequality

Course information provided by the 2025-2026 Catalog.

How do humans organize production, distribution, exchange, and consumption? What social, political, environmental, and religious values underlie different forms of economic organization? And how do they produce racial, ethnic, class, gender, and sexual inequalities? This course uses a range of historical and contemporary case studies to address these questions, in the process introducing a range of analytic approaches including formalism, substantivism, Marxist and feminist theory, critical race studies, and science and technology studies. Course themes include gifts and commodities; the nature of money, markets, and finance; credit and debt relations; labor, property, and value; licit and illicit economies; capitalism and socialism; development and underdevelopment.


Distribution Requirements (D-AG, SBA-AG), (SCD-AS, SSC-AS), (OCE-IL)

Exploratory Studies (CU-SBY)

Last 3 terms offered 2024FA, 2024SP, 2022FA

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ANTHR 2437

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9035 SHUM 2437   LEC 001

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    • TR
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025

    • Welker, M

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9036 SHUM 2437   DIS 201

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    • F
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025

    • Welker, M

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9037 SHUM 2437   DIS 202

  •  
    • F
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025

    • Welker, M

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 20436 SHUM 2437   DIS 203

  •  
    • F
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025

    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 20437 SHUM 2437   DIS 204

  •  
    • F
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025

    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person