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3.00 Credits
A travel-study course that provides students the opportunity to work on global health issues in the context of a supervised internship experience. In addition to a formal internship placement or directed research opportunity, students attend formal lectures and participate in seminars devoted to addressing those health issues most relevant to the country in which the course is being taught. Prereq: HBSC/ANTH 4010/5014, HBSC/ANTH 4020/5024, HLTH 6070 or equivalent. Cross-listed with ANTH 5080, HBSC 4080 and 5080.
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3.00 Credits
Psychotropic drugs, both legal and illicit, are a predominant part of our everyday lives. This course examines their use and meaning within cultures, and the social, political and economic issues that surround their production, use and misuse. Prereq: introductory course in cultural anthropology. Cross-listed with ANTH 5090.
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3.00 Credits
Teaches the practical statistical tools social scientists use to analyze real-world problems. Split into four modules, each taught by a different instructor. The first module introduces SAS and SPSS; modules 2-4 are problem-based and cover topics such as ANOVA, multivariate regression and cluster analysis. Prereq: Any statistics course.
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3.00 Credits
Students use the skills they learned in the previous semester to analyze a social issue of their choosing and present their findings. Note: In addition to lectures, weekly one-on-one meetings between faculty and students are required. Prereq: ANTH 4101.
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3.00 Credits
A cross-cultural analysis of religious belief and behavior. Emphasis is placed on religions found among non-Western cultural groups and includes consideration of how major religions of the world are manifested on local levels. Prereq: ANTH 2102 or equivalent. Cross-listed with ANTH 5130, RLST 4010, 5010.
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3.00 Credits
Both formalist and substantivist perspectives are used to examine economic organization in a cross-cultural perspective. Special attention is focused on gift-giving in pre-stratified societies, craft specialization in middle-range societies, specialized economies in non-market-oriented ancient states and economic organization in modern world systems. Prereq: ANTH 2102 or equivalent. Cross-listed with ANTH 5140.
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3.00 Credits
The chief concern of this course is the relationship between ourselves and our surroundings and the very immediate ways the environments in which we live affect us. The view is of ourselves as a part of, not apart from, these environments. Prereq: ANTH 1303 and 2102 or equivalent. Cross-listed with ANTH 5150.
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3.00 Credits
A changing set of topics that address the nature of language in society and analysis of “Languaculture.” Topics may include: language and power, language and identity, conversational analysis, language and self, language socialization, nonverbal communication, evolution of language, ethnopoetics, language as social action, orality and literacy, linguistic hygiene, language and gender, discourse analysis, deception and truth. Prereq: ANTH 2102 or equivalent. Cross-listed with ANTH 5160.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the historical origins of Western and non-Western ideas of the environment and the place of people within it. The imposition of Western ideas on non-Western groups regarding environmental policy is also examined, with special attention given to practices of conservation, development and transnational monetary policy. Prereq: ANTH 2102 or equivalent. Cross-listed with ANTH 5170.
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3.00 Credits
Introduces the major theories of power used in contemporary anthropology, with an emphasis on cross-cultural perspectives. Explores how power is defined, determined and exercised globally and locally and how different systems of power articulate with one another. Prereq: ANTH 2102 or equivalent. Cross-listed with ANTH 5180.
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