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3.00 Credits
Course Level: Undergraduate Examines connections between language, culture and society. Includes grammars as systems of knowledge; language and cognition; structure of everyday discourse; language diversity; speech communities; language change; literacy and language planning. Usually offered every spring.
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3.00 Credits
Course Level: Undergraduate
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1.00 - 6.00 Credits
Course Level: Undergraduate Topics vary by section, may be repeated for credit with different topic.
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3.00 Credits
Course Level: Undergraduate Focuses on issues of inequalities attending the destruction of resources, the siting of dangerous facilities, dumping of toxic wastes, and the development of technologies that harm some people while benefiting others. Case studies from North America, Latin America, Africa, the Arctic, Pacific, and Caribbean examine questions about history, social relations, power, connections among the world's societies, and competing values. Usually offered alternate springs.
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3.00 Credits
Course Level: Undergraduate Examines questions concerning how individuals, groups, and social institutions legitimize the power to repress, coerce, and kill, how victims experience and interpret their suffering, how "ordinary people" come to accept and justify violent regimes, and the possibility of constructing an understanding of genocide that extends across cultures and from individual impulse to global conflict. Case studies include genocide in the Americas, the Nazi Holocaust, and ethnic cleansing in Central Africa and Eastern Europe.
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3.00 Credits
Course Level: Undergraduate Topics vary by section, may be repeated for credit with different topic. Examination of a particular culture area to provide insight into the conditions that produced distinctive cultures in certain geographical regions. Rotating cultural areas include North American Indians, Latin America, Mexico and Central America, North American ethnic groups, Europe, India, Africa, China, and Japan. Meets with ANTH-639. Usually offered every term.
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3.00 Credits
Course Level: Undergraduate Surveys theory through the original writings of anthropologists. Contemporary perspectives and debates in anthropology examined through close, critical readings of cutting-edge studies. These readings reflect current approaches in the field such as culture and political economy, postmodern multi-vocal texts, feminist ethnographies, and post-colonial writing. How ethnographies are crafted, including how authors contextualize their subject and their own involvement, uses of evidence, and literary devices. Usually offered every spring.
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3.00 Credits
Course Level: Undergraduate Topics vary by section, may be repeated for credit with different topic. Cross-cultural comparison and analysis within selected culture areas. Rotating topics include cultural perspectives on sports, war and aggression, rites of passage, food and culture, rise of civilization, archaeology of the Chesapeake Bay region, North American prehistory, and historical archaeology.
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1.00 - 6.00 Credits
Course Level: Undergraduate Prerequisite: permission of instructor and department chair.
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3.00 - 9.00 Credits
Course Level: Undergraduate Prerequisite: permission of department chair and Cooperative Education office.
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