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I'm not teaching right now, but considering past and hopefully future students, I think Financial Literacy would work well with Anthropology. My past students compared housing, religion, communication, and so forth, and basic economic foundations (communism, capitalism, socialism, etc.) in our government discussions. But now I'm already seeing new directions, incorporating financial literacy into the classroom learning. USA screams of student debt. How does this compare with students in other countries? This would include tuition concerns. How do numbers of students with cars compare among countries? When I was in Germany, students rode bicycles. The school had a small parking lot for cars, and a huge parking lot in the school at its basement level, for bicycles. Amazing. Good exercise, saves on oil pollution, and saves on cash. I appreciate an intercultural perspective. I'm also picturing Russia and its historic economic changes. Students didn't have cars or bicycles. Most people throughout Eastern Europe walked places. How many of today's youth walk places? Drawing financial concerns into classroom discussion would/will definitely be interesting. Do students realize how much money they could save if they stopped "x" or "y" activity? I think that's where I'd start the discussion.
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