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3.00 Credits
This course explores marriage as a social and symbolic system, analyzing marriage practices in several ethnographic areas including Africa, Asia, Latin America, Oceania, Europe, and the contemporary United States.The course exposes students to a range of theoretical perspectives used in anthropology and guides students to an appreciation of how marriage systems participate in the construction and reproduction of kinship and gender identities, and relations of power, authority, and inequality. This course meets the world diversity requirement. Three credits.
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This introduction to the cultural mosaic and social dynamics of Asia offers an ethnographic and cultural ecological survey of geographical Asia, focusing mainly on three regions: South Asia, mainland and insular Southeast Asia, and East Asia.In each region students explore the historical development of high civilizations, the transformation of society and culture through the era of colonial domination, and the rapid and profound changes affecting the regions as they modernize and articulate with a global economy. This course meets the world diversity requirement. Three credits.
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This anthropological inquiry into a number of "Muslim societies," from Africa and the Middle East to Asia and the Pacific, investigates the cultural, ethnic, and linguistic diversity within these societies, while seeking to understand what they have in common with each other and with their non-Muslim neighbor s.This course meets the world diversity requirement . Three credits.
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This course explores the social and cultural dimensions of illness, disease, healing, and health from a cross-cultural perspective.Topics include the relationship between biology and culture; the sociocultural causes and consequences of epidemics and pandemics; social inequality and health-related issues; how different cultures conceive of the body, health, and illness; shamanism and ethnopsychiatry; culture-bound syndromes; birth and reproduction cross-culturally; health and the life cycle; the cultural dimensions of the clinical encounter, especially in pluralistic societies; and aspects of the political economy of medicine in the United States.Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the concepts of "culture" and "inequality" - two terms employed to deal with "difference" in a range of intriguingly different, and morally charged, ways.The course explores recent work in anthropology, economics, and sociology using culture and/or inequality as a lens through which to view various issues in contemporary social theory.In the process, students work to discover what kind of lens culture and/or inequality provides, how our implicit understandings of these ideas shape how we think about the world, and how we might better use such ideas to do our thinking.Three cre
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Through a comparison of selected Asian, Middle Eastern, African, and Native American societies, this course explores the ways that culture can mold the biological facts of sexual difference into socially accepted behavior, creating two, and sometimes more, genders.Topics include the allocation of work, power, and prestige between men and women; the belief systems that legitimate gender roles; and some possible causes for the wide variation that exists among cultures. This course meets the world diversity requirement. Three credits.
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This will introduce students to the practicalities of international research, with particular emphasis on qualitative social science methods and the eventual aim of producing a viable grant proposal.The course will be taught from an anthropological perspective, but the skills developed should be broadly applicable to the social sciences and humanities.Three credits.
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This course focuses on the history and practice of ethnographic writing, a form of intellectual production at once art and science, evocation and explication.Emerging in the 20th century as the preeminent form of anthropological expression, ethnographies are one of the few scholarly means of understanding other cultures and societies in meaningful depth.At the same time, ethnographies reveal as much about the disciplines and societies in which they are produced as they do about distant "others." Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This course, recommended for nursing majors, gives students a familiarity with the anatomy and physiology of body processes with special emphasis on the practical aspects of circulation, respiration, digestion, reproduction, and the glands of internal secretion.Techniques include measuring blood pressure, blood typing, and others.Note: This course is not open to biology majors except where required for allied health sciences (chair approval required).
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3.00 Credits
This course, an introductory study of biology for the non-science major, familiarizes students with the general biological principles that govern the activities of all living systems.Concepts include the biochemical origin of life, cellular morphology and physiology, and human genetics.Note: This course counts as a science core course but does not satisfy requirements for the biology major or minor.Three lectures.Three credits.
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