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3.00 Credits
This course will investigate the relative status of women cross-culturally in a range of non-Western settings, including hunter-gatherer bands, horticultural societies, peasantry, nomadic pastoralists and contemporary industrial societies. Women will be examined as they relate to economic resources, political power and authority, kin and non-kin and in religion, myth and lore. Students will analyze conceptually and through cross-cultural data what is meant by sex roles, how they vary cross-culturally and how they are negotiated and maintained. Either semester. (CGCL; CMCL; CSOC)
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3.00 Credits
A survey of the multiplicity of ways in which contemporary societies, rural and urban, arrange their ways of life in a rapidly changing Africa. Either semester. (CGCL; CMCL; CSOC)
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3.00 Credits
This course will investigate the culture, history and development of selected Latin American regions and their contemporary relations with the United States. Mexico/Guatemala and Central and South America will be studied by means of ethnographic and cross-cultural documents of the past and present which reveal changing conditions of society, land ownership, ethnicity and political allegiance. Either semester. (CGCL; CMCL; CSOC)
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the creation of Caribbean cultures and societies over 500 years of European conquest and colonization, the impact of the slave trade, emancipation, independence movements and postcolonial state formation. The course explores everyday life in contemporary Caribbean societies considering the intersections of nationality, class, ethnicity, race, gender and religion on the formation of diverse and complex cultures. Fall semester. (CGCL; CMCL; CSOC; CWRT)
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3.00 Credits
The Middle East was the cradle of the world’s earliest civilizations and has made immense contributions to the development of agriculture, pastoralism, urbanization and organized religion. Today it remains an extraordinarily important and volatile crossroads for world culture. The course will examine both ancient and modern cultures within this diverse region from a cross-cultural perspective. The study will include kinship patterns, social organization, political structures, subsistence strategies and belief systems. The course will pay particular attention to the role of modern peoples in shaping the world stage, both in reaction to and in harmony with the introduction of Western ideologies and economics. Either semester. (CGCL; CMCL; CSOC; CSPI)
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3.00 Credits
Anthropology of South Asia is a general introductory course that is designed for both anthropology majors and non-majors. This course introduces students to the physical geography of South Asia, and explores the various key aspects of South Asian traditional culture, social systems and transformations, including the Diaspora, and the spread of popular culture outside South Asia. (CGCL; CSOC)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: _ _ _ _ 199; Open to all sophomores and juniors who have completed ENGL 101, and the speaking skills requirement. Students with 54 or more transfer credits will have this requirement waived. Cannot be taken if _ _ _ _ 299 is taken for credit. Second Year Seminars (SYS) are speaking-intensive topic courses that build on the academic skills and habits introduced in the First Year Seminar. SYS courses engage students in a specific academic area of interest and provide them with the opportunity to reinforce, share and interpret knowledge. Students will improve their speaking, reading, research and basic information and technology skills while building the connections between scholarship and action that are required for lifelong learning. These courses will fulfill the Second Year Seminar requirement and may fulfill other requirements for the core curriculum. Each course may fulfill different requirements and topics may change each semester. Only one SYS course may be taken for credit. (CSYS)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: _ _ _ _ 199; Open to all sophomores and juniors who have completed ENGL 101 and ENGL 102. Students with 54 or more transfer credits will have this requirement waived. Cannot be taken if _ _ _ _ 298 is taken for credit. Second Year Seminars (SYS) are writing-intensive topic courses that build on the academic skills and habits introduced in the First Year Seminar. SYS courses engage students in a specific academic area of interest and provide them with the opportunity to reinforce, share and interpret knowledge. Students will improve their writing, reading, research and basic information and technology skills while building the connections between scholarship and action that are required for lifelong learning. These courses will fulfill the Second Year Seminar requirement and may fulfill other requirements for the core curriculum. Each course may fulfill different requirements and topics may change each semester. Only one SYS course may be taken for credit. (CSYS)
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3.00 - 6.00 Credits
This course provides intensive training in the practical skills of field archaeology. Direction in site survey, excavation tactics and strategy, fieldwork supervision, methods of sampling and on-site analysis is given. The course includes an introduction to laboratory work, covering topics such as cataloging, recognizing lithic materials, metric measurement and flotation of organic samples. This course may be repeated up to nine credits. Offered every summer. (Formerly ANTH 403)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ANTH 100 or ANTH 101 or ANTH 103 or consent of instructor This course focuses on the processes of culture change, intentioned and unintentioned, internal and external. It will explore reaction strategies of cultures toward imminent change. The course concludes with a consideration of how models can be applied to producing non-destructive, non-exploitative culture change. Offered once every three years. (Formerly ANTH 205) (CGCL; CSOC; CWRT)
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