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4.00 Credits
Not open to freshmen. Students in the course will be introduced initially to the social, cultural and political landscape of the country of South Africa today, as its citizens continue their efforts to recuperate from Apartheid. Students will focus on the formal and informal initiatives of the various cultural groups within this multi-racial society to sustain autonomy while trying to foster inter-group civility. In addition the assigned readings will include works that define and describe the processes of qualitative data collection and analysis in anthropology. These two basic categories of readings and the ensuring discussions are intended to prepare students for small-scale ethnographic research among student and/or community populations within the Pretoria-Witwatersrand and Western Cape area. Faculty: L. NELSON 4.000 Credit hours 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Fieldwork Social & Behavioral Sciences Division Sociology and Anthropology Department
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4.00 Credits
ANTH 1100 or ANTH 2134. Prehistoric, historic, and modern cultures of Arctic and Subarctic North America are explored through archaeology and ethnography. Course topics range from prehistoric cultures like coastal whalers and boreal hunters to modern accommodations to western industrial life made by Arctic native people. Faculty: STAFF 4.000 Credit hours 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Social & Behavioral Sciences Division Sociology and Anthropology Department
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4.00 Credits
The course covers life during the New Kingdom and the artistic, social, religious, political and economic developments during this pivotal period. Topics include geography and rise of cities; arts and crafts; female pharaohs and women in business; slavery and class structure; religious turmoil (Akhenaton, Tutankhamen, and Nefertiti); and war and cultural contacts with Syria, Palestine, Libya, Nubia, and the Mediterranean. Faculty: STAFF 4.000 Credit hours 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Social & Behavioral Sciences Division Sociology and Anthropology Department
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4.00 Credits
International/multicultural course (I). This course is about the theory and practice of religion in cross-cultural, historical, and evolutionary perspective. Topics include: theories of origin and function of religion, ritual, magic and witchcraft, taboo, sacrifice, healing, pilgrimage, and religious movements. Students will be required to conduct fieldwork in a religious setting. Faculty: J. RUBENSTEIN 4.000 Credit hours 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Social & Behavioral Sciences Division Sociology and Anthropology Department Course Attributes: International/Multicultural -I
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4.00 Credits
Values/ethics course (V). Distance Learning/Hybrid course. Though anthropologists respect cultural differences, they are far from apolitical. This course will examine cross-cultural research and the application of this research toward achieving social justice. This distance learning/hybrid course requires service learning hours, and a Web-CT component. Faculty: L. GREENE 4.000 Credit hours 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Social & Behavioral Sciences Division Sociology and Anthropology Department Course Attributes: Values/Ethics-V
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4.00 Credits
International/multicultural course (I). Students will examine the role of life history in ethnographic description, that is, the ways in which life narratives of one or more participants in a cultural group can be used to inform our understanding of the cultural rules, values and beliefs of the group as a whole. In addition, we will investigate the influence of the investigator on the process of data collection and on the substance of the narrative he or she collects. We will also look at other forms of the life story such as individual and group biography, as well as autobiography, outside of the social sciences, and the ways that these genres might also contribute to anthropological understanding. Faculty: L. NELSON 4.000 Credit hours 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Social & Behavioral Sciences Division Sociology and Anthropology Department Course Attributes: International/Multicultural -I
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4.00 Credits
One course in ANTH, BIOL or CRIM. (Cross-listed as CRIM 2400 and BIOL 2400.) This course is an introduction to the study of human bones with an emphasis on their use in archaeological analyses and criminal investigation. Laboratory work will focus on bone identification and the identification of information useful in these investigations (e.g., age, sex, pathology). Cultural factors affecting the spread of disease and the appearance of bones will be compared and contrasted with anthropological and biological concepts. Field techniques used by archaeologists, physical anthropologists and forensic scientists will be studied. Finally, the application of forensic osteology to human rights issues will be examined. Faculty: M. LEWIS 4.000 Credit hours 4.000 Lecture hours 3.000 Lab hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Social & Behavioral Sciences Division Sociology and Anthropology Department Course Attributes: Historical Consciousness -H
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4.00 Credits
ANTH 1100 or SOCY 1100. This course examines the relationship between language and socio-cultural identity, beginning with the observation that patterns of language use are both constructed through and reinforced within social relationships. Students will examine the way categories of identity such as gender, class and ethnicity are reflected in the language forms of individuals. In addition, studies from a range of speech communities in this country and elsewhere will help students to understand the factors that contribute to the tension between high prestige, publicly validated forms of language and low-prestige, home and community based language forms, which are valued in private domains. Faculty: L. NELSON 4.000 Credit hours 4.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Seminar Social & Behavioral Sciences Division Sociology and Anthropology Department
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
Independent Study in Anthropology 1.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Independent Study Social & Behavioral Sciences Division Sociology and Anthropology Department
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4.00 Credits
LITT 1101 and LITT 2123. Cross-listed as LITT 3122. International/multicultural course (I). This is a 20th-century course. This course will begin with readings on the aesthetic and cultural traditions constructed within the process of adaptation of West African aesthetics. It will focus on the African American novel from the middle of the 20th century to the current period. Students will explore culturally constructed themes such as the importance of communal connections, the destabilization of received notions of good and evil, beautiful and ugly. The examination of cultural images constructed out of vernacular traditions such as the blues motif and language performance stylistics, i.e., call and response and signification, will also enhance the students' understanding of the authors' intentions. In addition to the novels represented, students will read at least one collection of critical essays, including anthropological studies of African American culture, which explores black aesthetic traditions, and the ways in which postmodern theoretical analyses have helped to articulate their direction. The assigned readings will likely include the following authors: Toni Morrison, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, Ntozake Shange, and Octavia Butler. Faculty: L. NELSON 4.000 Credit hours 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Social & Behavioral Sciences Division Sociology and Anthropology Department Course Attributes: International/Multicultural -I
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