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  • 4.00 Credits

    Many of the earth's remaining wilderness areas are the homelands of the planet's surviving tribal cultures. As the earth's population increases, both these areas and their inhabitants are threatened. This course will provide an overview of the situation facing conservationists, nations and indigenous peoples as they deal with the problems of conserving our remaining wilderness. We will examine the historical, biological and socio-political intricacies of preserving cultural and biological diversity. Finally, we will look at some of the solutions that attempt to combine the needs of a developing world with those of conservation. Faculty: STAFF 4.000 Credit hours 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Social & Behavioral Sciences Division Sociology and Anthropology Department
  • 4.00 Credits

    International/multicultural course (I). This course will study the diversity of the circum-Caribbean area from a cultural-historical perspective. The art, music, language and ritual traditions of this area will all be examined. Particular attention will be paid to the problems of colonialism, ethnicity, and post-colonial development in the major island nations- Jamaica, Haiti, Puerto Rico and Cuba. 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: International/Multicultural -I
  • 4.00 Credits

    International/multicultural course (I). This course will explore the differing roles of men and women in a cross-cultural perspective. It will include an overview of cognitive, linguistic, and behavioral differences between men and women, the various theoretical perspectives which social scientists have chosen to study gender over the last 50 years. Topics will include gender and language, sexuality, gender role variation, biological foundations of sex and gender, and gender and religion, among others. Faculty: L. GREENE, 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
  • 4.00 Credits

    Open only to juniors and seniors. This course introduces the students to the study of the interrelationships between people and their environments. We will study examples of how people and environments adapt to each other successfully or unsuccessfully. Examples will be taken from prehistoric and contemporary cultures and from all over the world. Term projects required. Faculty: STAFF 4.000 Credit hours 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Social & Behavioral Sciences Division Sociology and Anthropology Department
  • 4.00 Credits

    Not open to freshmen. Most systems of human classification attempt to create hard and fast boundaries between categories. We are most familiar with black and white, and male and female. But what if some don't accept the system? This course will examine the implications of constructing a mixed identity. Faculty: J. RUBENSTEIN 4.000 Credit hours 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Social & Behavioral Sciences Division Sociology and Anthropology Department
  • 4.00 Credits

    ANTH 1100 or SOCY 1100 or Permission of Instructor. Open to juniors and seniors only. This course examines Black English Vernacular language forms and strategies and a range of other cultural practices (worship, familial structure, economic reciprocity, and expressive arts) in the context of their relationship to a West African past, the imperatives of adaptation in America after the middle passage, and the interrelatedness of all aspects of the cultural matrix. Faculty: L. NELSON 4.000 Credit hours 4.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Seminar Social & Behavioral Sciences Division Sociology and Anthropology Department
  • 4.00 Credits

    Not open to those with credit for ANTH 2110. Various qualitative (non-statistical) methods employed by the anthropologist to collect data. Students will engage in semester-long fieldwork in a cultural scene selected in consultation with the instructor. Students will conduct in-depth observations and interviews leading to descriptions of beliefs, values, and behaviors in the cultural scene, and will write about the experience of anthropological fieldwork. Faculty: J. RUBENSTEIN 4.000 Credit hours 4.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Seminar Social & Behavioral Sciences Division Sociology and Anthropology Department
  • 4.00 Credits

    SOCY 1100 or ANTH 1100. Open only to juniors and seniors. (Cross-listed as SOCY 3681.) Covers major classical theorists and theoretical schools in sociology and anthropology. These theories will be placed in an historical and political context. Faculty: L. NUTT 4.000 Credit hours 4.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Seminar Social & Behavioral Sciences Division Sociology and Anthropology Department
  • 1.00 - 4.00 Credits

    Independent Study in Anthropology 1.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Tutorial Social & Behavioral Sciences Division Sociology and Anthropology Department
  • 4.00 Credits

    Permission of instructor. This tutorial will look at the history of documentary photography and also involve taking photographs in the field. Faculty: J. RUBENSTIEIN 4.000 Credit hours 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Tutorial Social & Behavioral Sciences Division Sociology and Anthropology Department
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