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Course Criteria
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2.00 Credits
(The two course credits are considered pending in Part I of the thesis; they will be awarded with the completion of Part II.) 2.00 units, Independent Study
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2.00 Credits
(Continuation of American Studies 954.) 2.00 units, Independent Study
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2.00 Credits
(Completion of two course credits in one semester). 2.00 units, Independent Study
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1.00 Credits
The Connecticut Historical Society offers graduate internships to matriculate American Studies students in five key areas: Museum Collections, Library, Public Programs, Exhibitions, and Technology. Interested students should contact the Office of Graduate Studies for more information. 1.00 units, Independent Study
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0.00 Credits
In this course we will explore women's roles as performers, composers, teachers, and consumers of music from a global perspective. Through historical, ethnographic, and sociological study we will consider how various cultures construct ideas about womanhood through musical practice and reception. Topics covered will include women as composers and performers in Western classical music: women in jazz, blues, rap, punk, salsa, and other popular forms; women-centered traditions from Eastern Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Middle East; and women performers in Latin America, Africa, and India. Issues we will discuss include ideas about sexuality, misogyny, the intersection of race and gender, and the separation of musical roles by gender. While there are no prerequisites, previous courses in music, anthropology, or women's studies will be helpful. 1.00 units, Lecture
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1.00 Credits
This course explores issues of sex, gender, and power for women and men in our society and in selected cultures of Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, and the Pacific. Issues to be explored include: the cultural construction of deviance, women's and men's freedom to be sexual, reproductive rights, divorce and marriage, homosexuality, ritualized genital mutilation, the relationship between sexuality and social roles. By creating "maps" of the sex/gender systems of some exotically different societies, the course encourages a reflexive analysis of our own. 1.00 units, Lecture
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces Europe as a culturally and ecologically diverse and unevenly developed region. Students will examine the dynamics of communities located in, for example, the Scottish Lowlands, London, southern Italy, Brittany, Spain, Yugoslavia and rural Greece. Topics for reading and discussion will include: ethnicity, class, gender, economic decline, emigration, and religious conflict. 1.00 units, Lecture
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1.00 Credits
What is money What does money do Why do so many people try so hard to get it This course will look comparatively at the roles and meanings of money in different societies. We will consider whether money causes social decay or fosters social integration. We will examine money not only as a medium of exchange, but also as a means of power, resistance and expression. We will learn about lottery winners, counterfeiters, and gamblers and investigate pawn-shops and co-ops. Readings will include ethnography, theory, and news articles. 1.00 units, Lecture
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1.00 Credits
This course examines the reflexive relationship between things, i.e. material culture, and human thought and behavior. Social relations and questions of identity are analyzed via people's relationship to commodities. Beginning in the 18th century and continuing to the present, various forms of material culture, from gravestones to cars and clothes, are studied with a critical eye towards understanding ways in which they influence social life. We will focus on the rise of consumer culture and the increasing development of people's dependence on commodities to substitute for human relations. The course draws from anthropological, including archaeological, theory and method in its examination of the ways in which human experience is made sense of, mediated, and subverted by material culture. 1.00 units, Lecture
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3.00 Credits
This course covers major topics in medical anthropology, including biocultural analyses of health and disease, the social patterning of disease, cultural critiques of biomedicine, and non-Western systems of healing. We will explore the major theoretical schools in medical anthropology, and see how they have been applied to specific pathologies, life processes, and social responses. Finally we will explore and critique how medical anthropology has been applied to health care in the United States and internationally. The course will sensitize students to cultural issues in sickness and health care, and provide some critical analytic concepts and tools. 1.00 units, Lecture
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