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2.00 Credits
Historical exploration of the ways that people have interacted with their closest animal relatives, for example: hunting, domestication of livestock, worship of animal gods, exploitation of animal labor, scientific study of animals, display of exotic and performing animals, and pet-keeping. Themes include changing ideas about animal agency and intelligence, our moral obligations to animals, and the limits imposed on the use of animals. Students taking the graduate version complete additional assignments.
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Prereq: None
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3.00 Credits
Interdisciplinary introduction to contemporary Latin America, drawing on films, literature, press accounts, and scholarly research. Topics include economic development, ethnic and racial identity, religion, corruption, democracy, transitional justice, and the rule of law. Examples draw on a range of countries, especially Mexico, Chile, and Brazil. Terms taught by Professor Nobles will cover the English-speaking Caribbean; terms taught by Professor Lawson will focus more on Mexico. Requirements include class presentations and written essays.
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Prereq: None
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3.00 Credits
Explores some of the forces and mechanisms through which stereotypes are built and perpetuated. In particular, examines stereotypes associated with Asian women in colonial, nationalist, state-authoritarian, and global/diasporic narratives about gender and power. Students read ethnography, fiction, and history, and view films to examine the politics and circumstances that create and perpetuate the representation of Asian women as dragon ladies, lotus blossoms, despotic tyrants, desexualized servants, and docile subordinates. Students are introduced to debates about Orientalism, gender, and power.
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Prereq: None
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3.00 Credits
Explores diverse cultures and political economies in East Asian countries, such as China, Japan, Korea, and Mongolia, with additional examples from the surrounding regions of South and South-East Asia. Examines the different ways people in these regions experience and make sense of globalization, capitalism, neoliberalism, economic development, and modernization. Readings include studies of the world?s largest seafood market in Tokyo, the effect of the Asian financial crisis on South Korea, the role of science in formulating China?s one child policy and its economic and social implications, and how mining is creating new economic and cultural dilemmas in Mongolia.
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Prereq: None
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3.00 Credits
Focuses on core issues and approaches in anthropological theory and method. Studies theoretical frameworks for the analysis and integration of material from other subjects in cultural anthropology. Reading and discussion of classics of anthropological theory and contemporary critiques. Students prepare and present analyses of texts. Preference to Anthropology majors and minors.
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Prereq: Permission of instructor
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to ethnographic practices: the study of and communicating about culture. Subject provides instruction and practice in writing, revision of fieldnotes, and a final paper. Preference to Anthropology majors and minors.
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Prereq: Permission of instructor
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0.00 - 6.00 Credits
Students writing a thesis work with an advisor to develop research topics, review relevant research and scholarship, frame research questions, choose an appropriate methodology for data collection and analysis, and draft the introductory and methodology sections of their theses. Includes substantial practice in writing (with revision) and oral presentations.
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Prereq: None
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0.00 - 6.00 Credits
Completion of work on the senior major thesis under supervision of a faculty thesis advisor. Includes oral presentation of thesis progress early in the term, assembling and revising the final text, and a final meeting with a committee of faculty evaluators to discuss the successes and limitations of the project.
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Prereq: 21A.ThT
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0.00 - 6.00 Credits
Individual participation in an ongoing research project. For students in the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program.
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Prereq: None
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0.00 - 6.00 Credits
Individual participation in an ongoing research project. For students in the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program.
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Prereq: None
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