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3.00 Credits
Art History: Individual study of special problems in the history or theory of the visual arts. Studio: Individual upper-level work in studio areas, intended to build upon course work or to explore new areas in studio. Not meant to take the place of existing courses. Prerequisite: Art History: Permission of the instructor. Studio: A year of studio course work and permission of the instructor. One to four credit hours. FACULTY
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4.00 Credits
Drawing on the extensive collections of contemporary art in the Colby College Museum of Art, a seminar investigation of recent art, with emphasis on research methods and presentation of information in both written and oral form. Students will do intensive work with research tools in art history and criticism and will present research results in both traditional written form and in digital format. Four credit hours.
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3.00 Credits
An introductory survey of modern solar, stellar, galactic, and extragalactic astronomy for students of both science and non-science backgrounds. Basic astronomical concepts and recent discoveries will be treated from an astrophysical point of view. Three credit hours. N. CAMPBELL
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4.00 Credits
Listed as Science, Technology, and Society 213. Four credit hours. N. FLEMING
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4.00 Credits
Theoretical topics include celestial mechanics, continuous and line spectra, stellar structure and nucleosynthesis, and stellar evolution. Observational topics include planning observations, acquisition of images with a CCD electronic camera at the Collins Observatory, and fundamentals of astronomical image processing, photometry, and stellar spectroscopy using IPLab in the Mac environment and IRAF in the UNIX environment. Open to all students interested in science who have a working knowledge of calculus. Five required telescope labs are held on clear nights selected by the instructor, so students must be available Monday through Thursday evenings. Lecture and laboratory. Four credit hours. N.
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
One to four credit hours. FACULTY
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4.00 Credits
An intensive introduction to the study of different societies and cultures in the world, using a cross-cultural perspective on human behavior. Explores the diversity of human cultures from hunter-gatherers to industrialized city dwellers. Considers the implications of economic, social, political, symbolic, and religious systems for the lives of men and women. Topics include enculturation and transmitting values; group coherence and continuity; impact of material, technological, and social change; effects and culture contact. By emphasizing non-Western cultures, the course critically explores our accepted notions about human nature, society, and ideologies. Four credit hours. S, I. FACULTY
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4.00 Credits
A broad introduction to the relationship of language to cultural context and social organization, surveying basic concepts, case studies, and major theoretical perspectives in the field of anthropological linguistics. An overview of past and contemporary approaches focuses on language structure, dialectal variation, gender-based differences, linguistic relativity, language change, poetics, language universals, literacy, the evolution of human communication, language engineering, and more, to develop an appreciation for the great diversity of human languages across and within cultures, the multiple functions of language in culture and society, and the cross-disciplinary ways of understanding human communication offered by anthropological linguistics. Four credit hours. S, I.
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3.00 Credits
Examines classic utopic and dystopic literature, philosophy, anthropology, art, and film from Plato to the present. Utopian literature involves anthropological reflection about the range of possibilities for human community and related anthropological themes of human social and cultural variability, conflict, and cooperation. Critically explores different utopian and dystopian discourses as vehicles for thinking about a world in crisis and its possible futures, as well as the effects these have on contemporary debates about politics and governance, citizenship, new technologies, media, family, and more. Formerly offered as Anthropology 219. Three credit hours. S. HRISKOS
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3.00 Credits
South Africa is in the midst of transforming itself from an authoritarian, racist, nondemocratic, isolated state to a democratic state based on principles of human rights, tolerance, equity, and social justice. The challenges of managing this transformation are enormous. Taking an anthropological approach, investigates numerous dimensions of transformation in contemporary South Africa, giving particular attention to reconciliation, human rights, racism, education, inequality, crime, and tourism. Part of the three-course Integrated Studies 127, The South Africa Cluster. Prerequisite: Concurrent enrollment in English 127 and Geology 127. Four credit hours. S, I.
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