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3.00 Credits
The study of health issues and disease within a broad cross-cultural perspective. Organization of medical beliefs and services in non-Western settings is explored as a means of better understanding aspects of our own medical system. Pre: Any introductory social science or humanities course and WRI 1200.
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This course is an ethnographic approach to social activism. It examines the ways in which activists (broadly defined) conceive of and carry out their understandings of social change. We will also interrogate the philosophical, emotional and pragmatic bases for these movements as well as the practical challenges activists face. Pre: Any introductory social science or humanities course and WRI 1200.
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3.00 Credits
This course will examine the ways in which centralized Asian and European powers interacted with and came to politically dominate nations and locations in the Pacific, Asia, the Americas, and Africa. Colonialism will be studied as a complex set of evolving power relationships that fundamentally altered both colonizers and colonized. Pre: Any introductory social science or humanities course and WRI 1200.
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This course examines the culture of Japan with particular attention to values and behavior patterns. Issues to be addressed include the role of the family, gender, popular culture, economic and political issues, historical changes in Japanese society and Japan's responses to the outside world. Pre: Any introductory social science or humanities course.
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3.00 Credits
By focusing on factors such as nationalism, kinship, gender, modernization, food, popular culture, and society and individual, this course will investigate modern Chinese society and culture in the People's Republic of China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and other locations. Materials including feature films, documentaries and ethnographic footage will be used. Pre: Any introductory social science or humanities or course.
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3.00 Credits
The study of the dynamic changes taking place in the world of work due to increasing ethnic diversity and the numbers of women entering the work place. Using the concept of culture as developed by anthropologists, the course explores such topics as wage differentials, stereotypical careers, equal employment opportunity, management styles, discrimination, communication styles, and harassment. Pre: Any introductory social science or humanities course; WRI 1200.
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3.00 Credits
The roles and relationships of women and men in modern society. The course explores such topics as marriage, love, sexuality, finance, harassment, and violence. The roles of women and men in other societies are explored, but major emphasis is placed on American culture. Pre: Any introductory social science or humanities course and WRI 1200.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the way in which men and women in Asia think about and enact ideas about gender, family, sexuality and the body. The geographical emphasis will be on East and Southeast Asia, but South Asian case studies will be used as appropriate. We will look at the interrelationship between gender and politics, economics, culture and society both in the past and the present. Pre: Any introductory social science or humanities course and WRI 1200.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the ways in which food is used as a cultural symbol, an economic asset, an ethnic marker and a way of defining your community. We will also examine cooking and cuisine, food and religion, gender and food, the art of food and food and the human body. Pre: Any introductory humanities or social science course.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the ways in which rhythm functions in the music of different cultures. By looking at the ritual, secular, economic and political functions of percussion, we will use rhythm as a lens for understanding the human condition. Guest artists and hands-on experience will be included. Pre: Any introductory humanities or social science course.
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