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  • ANTH 240: African Cultural Modernities

    3.00 Credits
    Georgetown University

    This course is designed to provide the undergraduate student with an understanding of social relations and cultural conceptions of various peoples in sub-Saharan Africa. Historical developments over the last 500 years -- including colonialism -- will be given, including how these historic processes have determined and continue to shape contemporary life in Africa. A sequence of anthropological theories regarding African societies will be presented. These will be compared with current theoretical orientations. The course will also analyze religion and cosmology, politics, economics, the organization of labor, trade and agricultural networks, family, kinship and household production, African art, medicine, and perceptions of personhood in Africa. Consideration will also be given to Africa and Africans in the modern global system.
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  • ANTH 250: Introduction to Medical Anthropology

    3.00 Credits
    Georgetown University

    The course explores the city as a site for the negotiation of cultural diversity and the re-conceptualization of community. Drawing on a variety of historical and ethnographic studies, we will examine how urban life conditions the production and reproduction of culture and the relation of such processes to larger structures of capitalism, technology, and globalization, as well as social and artistic movements. Specific topics explored will include telecommunications and city culture, museums and metropolitan culture, and global cities and financial culture. Throughout the course, methodological questions regarding the city as an object of historical and ethnographic study will be highlighted.
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  • ANTH 301: Anthropology Tutorial: Reading

    3.00 Credits
    Georgetown University

    This is an independent reading tutorial. Student must obtain permission from the department before enrolling.
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  • ANTH 310: Doing Anthropological Fieldwork

    3.00 Credits
    Georgetown University

    Overview of Course: This course offers you an opportunity that few undergraduates undertake: The chance to design and conduct your own field-research project. It also gives students a chance to get involved in communities beyond Georgetown's gates while developing research skills. In order to acquire the skills necessary for participant observation, we will read about how cultural anthropologists select a research topic, choose a field site, design the study, pose theoretical questions, carry out the research, analyze ethnographic data, and then finally, write an ethnography. As inspiration, and to help you get started on your own projects, we will read ethnographies in both rural and urban settings; a testimonial about political violence in El Salvador; an oral history of daily life under Jim Crow in the south of the U.S.; and theatre pieces written by performers who use interviews as the basis for their plays. Through these ethnographies and other assignments, we will explore some of the most challenging and contentious debates within anthropology. How valid is the anthropological project today? How "mutual" is the project? Can anyone really "speak" for anyone else? Can anthropologists go too far -- for example by shooting up drugs or participating in the sex trade -- as they try to grasp, as Malinowski described it "the native's point of view?" How does being an "insider" or an "outsider" shape one's research? Where/what constitutes the field? Can it be where one lives? Can it be research with a political or social service organization in which the researcher is an activist? Does "collaborating" with informants help to bridge any power differentials? What kind of ethical responsibilities do researchers have to the communities they research? How have communities responded to what anthropologists have written about them? How do non-anthropologists (playwrights, performers, radio journalists, and photographers) use "field research" and interviews? How do these different mediums - ethnographies, testimonials, oral histories, plays, radio journalism, and photography - communicate peoples' stories? * An ethnography is a systematic description of a culture based on firsthand observation (often called participant observation). Prerequisite:    ANTH-001
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  • ANTH 320: Ethnographic Imagination

    3.00 Credits
    Georgetown University

    Using ethnographic case studies from a wide range of regions, this course provides an overview of anthropological approaches. Cultural analysis, historical interpretation, and well-known debates in anthropology are covered by reading classics as well as more experimental contemporary monographs. Through readings and class discussion, students are encouraged to consider numerous schools of anthropological thought, and how methodology interrelates with theory. Functional analysis, life histories, collaborative 'action anthropology' projects, multi-site studies and 'auto-ethnography' are included in the range of anthropological styles. Themes critical to our understanding of current world issues are featured, including identity politics, 'race,' gender, nationalism, urban dislocation, development, ecology, violence and globalization.
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  • ANTH 410: Culture and Globalization

    3.00 Credits
    Georgetown University

    Professor Gwendolyn Mikell M 3:15 pm - 5:05 pm ICC 105 This is a seminar course that examines anthropology=s exploration of globalization, particularly the intersection between culture, power, and history. It is focused on how a few anthropological themes in the study of culture (family and gender relations, race/ethnic and religious identity, local-national-global governance, the impact of technology on culture, and conflict and violence) have undergone transformation as control over human lives expands from the local to include global influences as well. We focus on different cultural areas, including the U.S., Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean. Using contemporary ethnographies and articles, theoretical essays by anthropologists, as well as analyses from political science and other disciplines, we examine how the ethnography and anthropological discourse have been influenced by the expanding market, technology, terrorism, and policies of the 21st century.
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  • ARAB 011: Intensive First Level Modern Standard Arabic I

    6.00 Credits
    Georgetown University

    This intensive multi-media course focuses on developing proficiency in the standard written Arabic language, as well as formal spoken Arabic. It begins with learning of script and phonology, and works rapidly into a wide range of situation-based texts and topics that build vocabulary, grammar, and general communicative competence.
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  • ARAB 111: Intensive Second Level Modern Standard Arabic I

    6.00 Credits
    Georgetown University

    This intensive multi-media course covers topics and situations relating to contemporary Arabic media, literature and culture. Focus is on acquisition of more complex grammatical structures, expanding vocabulary and discourse skills, and on developing competence in a wide range of communicative situations. Prerequisite:    ARAB 011, 012
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  • ARAB 113: Formal Spoken Arabic I

    3.00 Credits
    Georgetown University

    This course is intended to increase spoken Arabic proficiency through focusing on intensive practice of interactive functional skills necessary in communicative situations, such as vocabulary retention and retrieval, listening comprehension, and fundamental conversation strategies. It assumes some knowledge of Arabic script and grammatical structure and is designed to enable nonnative speakers of Arabic to communicate actively and appropriately with educated native speakers on a wide range of topics. Prerequisite: at least one year of Modern Standard Arabic.
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  • ARAB 120: Colloquial Iraqi Arabic II

    3.00 Credits
    Georgetown University

    This course is intended to build proficiency in the Iraqi dialect, through practice of interactive functional skills such as listening comprehension, conversation strategies (linguistic and cultural), and vocabulary building. It assumes knowledge of Arabic script and Modern Standard Arabic grammatical structure. It is designed to enable students to communicate actively and appropriately on a wide range of topics. Prerequisite: at least one year of intensive Modern Standard Arabic.
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