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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an overview of anthropology's approach to understanding humanity and the human condition from a holistic perspective. Students examine the four subfields of anthropology: archaeology, biological anthropology, linguistic anthropology, and sociocultural anthropology. Students learn how anthropology provides useful knowledge, perspectives, and skills to better understand and meet contemporary challenges facing humanity. This course satisfies the Core Curriculum requirement in Social Sciences.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
This course consists of an independent creative or research project designed by the student and supervised by an anthropology faculty member. The nature of the project, the schedule for completion, and the means of evaluation must be formalized in a learning contract prior to registration. (See "Independent Study" under"Academic Policies" section.)
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an introduction to the basic anthropological concepts and tools necessary to collect, analyze and interpret data; and to report findings in written, verbal, and multimedia formats. Students learn to think critically about information found in maps, archival records, archaeological collections, Internet sources, on-line databases, and peerreviewed articles. Students are introduced to software programs such as the Statistical Program for the Social Sciences, PowerPoint, and GIS. Issues such as research ethics and the politics of representation are addressed.
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4.00 Credits
This course provides an introduction to the ways societies use culture to structure behavior and interpret experience. Students learn methods and theories anthropologists use to study culture; examine aspects of culture such as language, social organization, gender, marriage, family, and religion; and analyze historical, biological, and social determinants of cultural institutions. This course fulfills the Core Curriculum requirement in Cultural Persectives.
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3.00 Credits
This course addresses the relationships between culture and human biology. Topics include primate classification and behavior, human origins and evolution, and human variation and genetics. Students work with fossils, as well as geological and other data, to understand the biological dimensions of human populations.
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4.00 Credits
This course provides a broad introduction to linguistic anthropology. Students learn how anthropologists study the relationships between language and culture and society; and how language both reflects and shapes human behavior. Topics addressed include historical and comparative linguistics, descriptive linguistics, and sociolinguistics. This course fulfills the Core Curriculum requirement in Cultural Persectives.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the role of food in human evolution and the cultural dimensions of food practices. Students learn what people eat across cultures and why; how groups get, process, and prepare food; how food is used to build and maintain social, economic, and political relationships; and how food is linked to gender, age, social class, and ethnicity.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to provide participants with first-hand learning experiences in The Gambia. Over the course of seven weeks, participants study various aspects of Gambian language, social life, and history to gain the requisite knowledge and skills to pursue research on a topic selected with the instructor. The combination of directed research and other personal experiences provides the basis for participants to better understand and appreciate the achievements of African people in general and The Gambia's civilizations in particular.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides a survey of media as powerful cultural agents. Students will acquire a broad understanding of media (primarily electronic) and the theoretical tools necessary to critically investigate cultural and social effects. The course will focus on ethnographic issues at the intersection of people and media technologies, and anthropological critiques of how mass media are employed to represent and construct culture.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an overview of applied anthropology and the work of practitioners from a historical perspective. The course examines the contexts in which practitioners work, the types of problems they face, and the political and ethical challenges associated with their work. Students become familiar with and begin to develop requisite skills to undertake applied work by carrying out a service-learning project in the local community.
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