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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
The cultural conceptions of supernatural reality with an emphasis upon comparative understanding of myth and ritual, the religious experiences and revitalization movements.
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3.00 Credits
An anthropological examination of politics, including a cross-cultural comparison of political structures, leadership, factions, the politics of ethnicity and political change.
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3.00 Credits
This course is a survey of selected peoples and cultures of Africa. Topics covered include a reflection on cultural images of Africa in the West, basic information about the geography and history of Africa, and the study of specific African socio-cultural institutions such as political economy, religion, kinship, gender, art, and aesthetics.
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3.00 Credits
This course acquaints the student with some of the peoples and cultures of Southeast Asia including foragers, farmers and urban populations. It examines prehistory of the region, the development of complex state societies, and the impact of world religions (Buddhism, Hinduism, and Islam) as well as European colonialism. It examines a number of key contemporary social and economic issues in the region, including deforestation, agrarian transformation, religious revitalization, and the changing status of women.
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3.00 Credits
This class introduces students to the study of urban life and the effects of globalization upon it in a variety of political and historical contexts. It focuses on cities and tumultuous sites in which new political, economic, and social identities are forged. Topics include but are not limited to global cities, transnational labor, diasporic communities, immigration citizenship, and cosmopolitanism. Students will be exposed and familiarize themselves with some of the qualitative research techniques used in urban anthropology such as participant observation, formal and informal interviews, the collection of life histories , and textual analysis.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to introduce students in cross-cultural qualitative research. Students will gain the skills to critically evaluate and to conduct qualitative research. They will learn how to carry out research on their own and in a group setting. Students will gain an understanding of the relationship between data collection and theory. They will learn how to select an object of anthropological enquiry, which methodology to use, how to address ethical issues in field research, and the basics of research design and data analysis.
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3.00 Credits
Students pursue under faculty supervision a research topic of the student's own choice. May be repeated for 12 credits under different topics.
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3.00 Credits
Study of relevant issues in cultural anthropology. May be repeated for 12 credits under different topics.
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3.00 - 6.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Acceptance to the Honors in the Major in Anthropology and permission of instructor. This course provides Anthropology Honors students with the opportunity to work with one or more Anthropology faculty on an advanced thesis/research project. This course leads to completing an Honors Thesis and fulfills part of the requirements for graduating with the designation of Honors in Anthropology. Course can be repeated once up to a maximum of 6 credit hours.
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0.00 - 12.00 Credits
This course is a survey of selected peoples and cultures of Mexico, including the historical and contemporary Aztec and Maya speaking peoples. Topics to be covered include cross-cultural images of Mexico society, the geography and history of Mexico, and the socio-cultural dimensions of political economy, cultural survival, art and change
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