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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
3 hours, 3 credits. Introduction to anthropological concepts that have special relevance to education. Application of these concepts through analysis of case studies.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours, 3 credits. Relationship of culture to disease: cross-cultural attitudes toward illness and the ailing, curative practices, and problems in the introduction of Western medical practices into peasant communities. The effects of culture on the state of health of the population.
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3 hours, 3 credits. Daily life in selected cities of the world from an anthropological perspective. Social and cultural aspects of relevant urban issues: urban growth and decline, migration, relations of cooperation and conflict, class and ethnicity, and city pleasures.
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3 hours, 3 credits. Comparative study of economic systems in tribal and peasant societies. The role of social and cultural factors in production, distribution, consumption, and exchange among hunters and gatherers, herders, and agriculturalists.
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3 hours, 3 credits. Analysis of the development of formal and informal political structures, government, and law in tribal and peasant societies. The nature of power, authority, and social control in selected societies.
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3 hours, 3 credits. ( May be repeated for a maximum of 6 credits.) Methods of data collection and analysis in cultural anthropology. Includes field experience. PREREQ: Instructor's permission.
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3 hours, 3 credits. The Indian art styles of North America, with special emphasis on the tribal art of the U.S. Northwest Coast and the Southwest. Also, relationships with adjacent traditions, such as that of the Eskimo in the north and of pre-Columbian Mexico in the south.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours, 3 credits. Comparative study of racial and ethnic relations in Latin America.
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4.00 Credits
7 hours (3 lecture, 4 fieldwork in the community), 4 credits. An ecological, politico-economic, sociocultural, and nutritional analysis of world hunger, drawing on anthropological and historical evidence to investigate the diverse causes of hunger, the contexts in which hunger arises, and the efforts that have been made over the centuries to end hunger. PREREQ: ANT 211 or permission of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours, 3 credits. Anthropological approaches to media production and consumption. The uses of media in the construction of local, national, and transnational identities.
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