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3.00 Credits
What is the reality of the "information age?" We will look at technological and information cultures constructed in science, media and politics, at attempts to generalize their features into concepts about personal, biological, psychosocial identities and at their relation to issues of "globalization" and transnational cultures that are thrown up by shrinking the contemporary world. Students may anticipate a multidisciplinary set of readings about information and communication as social process with distinctive profiles in our time.
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3.00 Credits
Examines contemporary social settings of Islam in the Middle East, Africa, and South and Southeast Asia, through case studies of institutions of Muslim belief and practice at the local level. Considers the reception and role of Islam and its cultural significance for the analysis of authority and local communities.
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3.00 Credits
This course considers relations between environment and people. We will use examples from many different cultures, including Euro-American culture, to explore different ways of understanding, relating to, and living in the natural world. We will ask questions such as "What is 'the environment'?" "How do symbolic actions by humans affect the environment?" "What are the implications of this knowledge for biological , individual, social, and cultural sustainability?"
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3.00 Credits
This course addresses the key elements of the culture of capitalism, examines its historical emergence, and analyzes some of the social, economic, and environmental consequences of its expansion in our globalizing world.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of prehistory of eastern North American Indians.
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3.00 Credits
Among the most dramatic archaeological relics are ruins of prehistoric cities in the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Europe. This course will introduce the archeological documentation of prehistoric states and empires, focusing on changes in settlement patterns, social organization, the establishment of political office, and the evolution of primitive economic and ideological systems that help define early civilization.
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3.00 Credits
Study of the origins of the Incas and how they organized the largest prehistoric native American empire known, including: Inca social and religious life, politics, economy, architecture, the built environment, and the arts. Shows how to use archeology, ethnography, ethnoarchelogy, and sources that have survived since the Conquest.
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3.00 Credits
The study of human settlements in their cultural and environmental contexts. Uses concepts in physical geography, geomorphology, and biodiversity to understand changes in the structure of communities and their arrangement on the landscape through time. Modern case studies are included with prehistoric examples drawn from Andean South America, Central America, the Near East and the United States.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of peoples of Latin American heritage in the United States, particularly Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans and new immigrants from Central and South America, with emphasis on ethnohistory, ethnography, current trends, and projects in the Washington community. Dr. Cohen.
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3.00 Credits
What does "American" mean for the lives of people in the US, what makes these meanings "American", and how do Americans use these meanings? The course examines how meanings are organized in myths, rituals, and public discourses; settings where meanings are used, contested, and negotiated in new social movements, Congress and courts, communities, ethnicity and race, families and kinship, violence and its aftermath, and the media.
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