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4.00 Credits
Offers elective credit for courses taken at consortium institutions.
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4.00 Credits
Retired August 31, 2008. Familiarizes students with Middle East culture and society by way of an anthropological tour of the region. Urban, rural, and pastoral communities are examined, particularly focusing on their response to social change both from within and outside the region. Topics within these three broad spatial divisions include family, kinship, and gender; tourism, business, and livelihoods; and popular culture, religion, and social movement.
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4.00 Credits
Retired August 31, 2008. Considers a number of prominent, headline-grabbing issues that currently preoccupy the Middle East. Topics include Orientalism, gender, Islamic fundamentalism, and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Each topic will be approached from a macroscopic perspective, looking at its history and general trends. Then it will be viewed by examining the issue from the microscopic level including biographies, short stories, films, and ethnographies. Classroom discussions and outside assignments concentrate on connecting these different levels and understanding how they mutually affect each other.
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4.00 Credits
Offers an interdisciplinary introduction to Latinos and people of Latin American and Caribbean origin in the United States as well as to the regions of Latin America and the Caribbean. Dispels a series of powerful myths associated with U.S. Latinos and in Latin American and Caribbean society, such as racial inferiority, poverty, machismo, and violence. Introduces the construction of Latino, Latin American, and Caribbean identities as well as the politics, economics, history, and culture.
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1.00 Credits
Retired August 31, 2006. Offers additional introductory academic experience by exploring course-related topics in greater depth with the professor. Available only to courses approved by the University Honors Program.
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1.00 Credits
Retired August 31, 2006. Offers additional introductory academic experience by exploring course-related topics in greater depth with the professor. Available only to courses approved by the University Honors Program.
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1.00 Credits
Retired August 31, 2006. Offers additional introductory academic experience by exploring course-related topics in greater depth with the professor. Available only to courses approved by the University Honors Program.
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4.00 Credits
Examines cultures through some of the discipline's best-known ethnographic works, as well as the anthropologists who did the studies. Major emphasis is on getting students to understand how ethnographies are put together, and how anthropologists bring their perspectives to bear upon the cultural study. Required for anthropology majors.
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4.00 Credits
Examines popular and scientific notions about sex, gender relations, family, and kinship. Examines why our images of family, masculinity, and femininity are not universal by analyzing the patterns of sex roles, sexual practices, and kinship in other cultures. Discusses how and why relations between men and women change during times of socioeconomic and political change.
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4.00 Credits
Discusses selected topics in the socioeconomic transformation of other cultures including urbanization, industrialization, commodity production, and international labor migration. Focuses on the impact of capitalist development on contemporary Third World and postcolonial societies; examines local responses to those changes.
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