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4.00 Credits
This is the same course as Botany/Environmental Studies 213. Refer to the Botany listing for a course description.
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4.00 Credits
The consequences of linguistic competence for social and individual experience and the relationship between natural languages and systems of symbolic classification. Prerequisite: Courses 102 and 104 and one 200-level course or permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 30 students. J. Burton
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4.00 Credits
Anthropological interpretation of the role of religion in social and individual experiences. Ethnographic readings focusing on non-western cosmologies and world views are considered. Prerequisite: Courses 102 and 104 and one 200-level course or permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 30 students. J. Burton
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4.00 Credits
How anthropologists study the relationship between human behavior and biophysical environment. Theoretical models and research strategies emphasized in discussion of major issues of interest to cultural ecologists, growth, and demographic and organizational effects of subsistence change. Prerequisite: Course 102 or 104 and at least one course at the 200-level or permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 30 students. M. Lizarralde
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4.00 Credits
Conceptions of wellbeing, disease, and healing in a social and historical context. Examination of crosscultural ethnographic research, including research on Western biomedicine. Representations and experiences of illness and sickness will also be understood in the context of access to health care, politics, and globalization. Prerequisite: Course 104 and one course at the 200-level in either Anthropology, Human Development, Psychology or Sociology. Open to sophomores, juniors and seniors. Enrollment limited to 30 students. C. Beno?
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4.00 Credits
Theories of human sexuality as well as gender stereotypes have undergone dramatic transformation in recent decades. This course surveys concepts of sexuality and gender through the comparative study of Melanesian, Asian, African, Native American and Western definitions and usages. This is the same course as Gender and Women's Studies 320. Prerequisite: Either Anthropology 102 or 104 or Gender and Women's Studies 103 and at least one course at the 200-level in Anthropology or Gender and Women's Studies or permission of the instructor. Staff
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4.00 Credits
This course examines anthropological perspectives and ethnographic writing on contemporary issues of migration, refugees, urbanization and globalization. It looks at the intersection of the poles of human mobility and cities in specific contexts-New York, Paris, Singapore, Dubai, Bombay/Mumbai, Mexico City. Prerequisite: Course 104. Enrollment limited to 30 students. S. Mathur
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4.00 Credits
This course will examine the history and culture of people of color in this region. A multidimensional approach incorporates archaeological research, interpreting documentary sources, oral histories, maps, and photographs. Themes will address dispossession, adaptation, ethnogenesis, changing gender roles, and labor on land and at sea. This is the same course as American Studies 325/History 326. Prerequisite: Course 104 and one of the following: History 105, 201, or 203. Enrollment limited to 30 students. J. Mancini
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3.00 Credits
The relationships between plants and people. Special emphasis on important food, fiber, medicinal and psychoactive plants and plant products. Laboratory topics cover the identification of important plant species worldwide. This is the same course as Botany/Environmental Studies 228. Three hours total lecture and laboratory. Not open to freshmen. This course does not meet the General Education Area 1 requirement. M. Lizarralde
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4.00 Credits
Instruction in how to read ethnographies from a critically informed perspective, to understand them both as attempts at objective description and as works that reflect the interests and theoretical focus of their authors. Prerequisite: Course 104 or permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 20 students. J. Burton
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