SHUM 2437

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  • Schedule of Classes - March 20, 2026 3:39PM EDT

SHUM 2437
Economy, Power, and Inequality

Course information provided by the 2026-2027 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 4 Terms Offered 2025FA, 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

  • 13201 SHUM 2437   LEC 001

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    • TR
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026

    • Welker, M

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 13202 SHUM 2437   DIS 201

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    • F
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026

    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 13203 SHUM 2437   DIS 202

  •  
    • F
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026

    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 13204 SHUM 2437   DIS 203

  •  
    • F
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026

    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 13205 SHUM 2437   DIS 204

  •  
    • F
    • Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026

    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: In Person