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  • ANT 225S: Popular Culture and Mass Media

    4.00 Credits
    University of Maine at Farmington

    Using a sociological lens combined with anthropological influences, students examine the relationship and role of mass media and popular culture in society. Students explore the ways in which mass culture impacts society as well as how the media industry shapes our daily lives on both a micro and macro level. Areas of focus include music, television, film, books and magazines, consumerism as well as the Internet. We will explore the impact of US popular culture on other nations and their impact on our culture. (Pass/Fail option) Every three years. CCP Credit: 4
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  • ANT 230S: Linguistic Anthropology

    4.00 Credits
    University of Maine at Farmington

    Language and Culture are patently and intrinsically tied. This course will investigate issues of language and culture in cross-cultural settings focusing on a wide variety of topics affiliated with both Anthropological linguistics and sociolinguistics. We will discuss methodology, language and gender, language and power, language acquisition, and other related topics. (Pass/Fail option) Prerequisite(s): ANT 101S or ANT 103S. Every three years. CCP Credit: 4
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  • ANT 233S: Prehistory of North America

    4.00 Credits
    University of Maine at Farmington

    Using a Culture Area approach, the Prehistory of North America surveys the social history and adaptive ingenuity of First Nation societies in North American. Controversies, puzzles and particular sites are intensively examined from a post-processual perspective. Spans the earliest settlement to the proto-historical. (Pass/Fail option) Prerequisite(s): ANT 101S or ANT 102S, or ANT 103S. Every three years. CCP Credit: 4
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  • ANT 240S: Cultural Ecology

    4.00 Credits
    University of Maine at Farmington

    This course will investigate the relationship of human beings to various geographical locations on earth. We will examine adaptation and subsistence strategies of foragers, pastoralists, intensive agriculturalists, and industrial agriculturalists. We will study small scale societies in the form of ethnographies and ethnographic descriptions paying close attention to the role of kinship, technology, innovation, and acculturation in each society studied. This course will focus on the role of the ethnographer as participant observer in each society studied. (Pass/Fail option) Prerequisite(s): ANT 101S and one of the Peoples and Culture courses or permission of the instructor. Every two years. CCP Credit: 4
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  • ANT 245S: Constructing Sexualities

    4.00 Credits
    University of Maine at Farmington

    This multicultural course examines the ways in which sexualities are defined and understood in society. Students analyze the social, cultural, political and economic connections to sexuality. The course also traces some of the main events and issues connected to conceptions and practices of sexuality from the nineteenth century to present day. Areas of focus include marriage & relationships, reproductive options, sexuality and public policy, social movements and sexuality, and sexuality in the media. (Pass/Fail option) Every two years. CCP Credit: 4
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  • ANT 250S: Ethnography

    4.00 Credits
    University of Maine at Farmington

    This writing intensive course will examine the history of anthropological ethnographic tradition paying close attention to the trends and developments of anthropological theory contemporaneous with those ethnographies studied. Students will be expected to become ethnographers themselves through a host of writing assignments which sharpen methodological skills such as: observation, participant observation, and questionnaires. The goal of this course thus is two fold: the introduce students to the art and science of ethnographic writing and to help students enhance their own ethnographic writing skills. Prerequisite(s): ANT 101S and one of the Peoples and Cultures courses and SOC 101S or by permission of instructor. (Pass/Fail option) Every two years. CCP Credit: 4
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  • ANT 260S: Kinship and Family

    4.00 Credits
    University of Maine at Farmington

    This course will focus on issues of kinship and family both within the United States and in many varied cross-cultural contexts around the globe. Various types of families and kinship affiliations will be discussed such as: polyandry, polygyny, household residence patterns, marriage patterns, wedding rituals, family roles will be addressed. We will also pay particular attention to the changing family forms in the United States. (Pass/Fail option) Prerequisite(s): ANT 101S and one of the Peoples and Cultures courses, or by permission of instructor. Every three years. CCP Credit: 4
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  • ANT 277S: Special Topics in Anthropology

    4.00 Credits
    University of Maine at Farmington

    This course offers study in a specialized topic in anthropology that is not offered in the usual anthropology curriculum, at an introductory level. These topics include but are not limited to the Anthropology of Gender, Anthropology of Native North America, or Cultures in Conflict. Every two years. CCP Credit: 4
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  • ANT 300: Food and Culture

    4.00 Credits
    University of Maine at Farmington

    This course will focus on the nexus between food and culture in a variety of cross-cultural settings. We will examine the relationship between subsistence strategies and food production. We will also compare local food systems to large scale globalization of the world wide food industry. Students will also experience ethnographic methods and writing in this course. This will be a writing intensive course. (Pass/Fail option) Prerequisite(s): ANT 103S or permission of instructor. Every three years. CCP Credit: 4
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  • ANT 303: Field Work:Archaeology

    6.00 Credits
    University of Maine at Farmington

    Provides intensive training in archaeological field work and field laboratory processing. In both the preliminary class work and field work, emphasis is given to the interrelationship between human populations and environmental conditions using the perspective of ecological anthropology. (Pass/Fail option) Prerequisite(s): ANT 101S or ANT 103S or permission of instructor. Every three years. CCP Credit: 6
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