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1.00 Credits
The Atlantic slave trade forced millions of Africans to Latin America and the Caribbean. This course examines the origins, character, and persistence of diverse African cultures in the New World as well as their extraordinarily colorful and creative hybridization through interactions with European and indigenous languages and traditions. This includes African dialects, religions, music, art, dance, family structures and values, folk psychologies, healing practices, and more. The goal is to understand the origins and development of Afro-Latin and Afro-Caribbean cultural experience and the dynamics of cultural change from an anthropological perspective. NWEST, Fall semester.
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This course reviews comparative anthropological approaches to the study of magic, witchcraft, and religion, primarily in non-Western societies. Focus is on the nature, roles, and varieties of belief and myth; ritual and symbolization; religious experience, including drug and non-drug induced trance states and their psycho-cultural dimensions; and magico-religious social organization. The course will emphasize shamanic and spirit possession religions and radical religious movements, such as nativistic and messianic cults. In relation to all of these, anthropological theories of the origins and functions of magic, witchcraft, and religion in social life and personal experience will be critically examined. NWEST, Spring semester.
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Exploration of the social context of health, illness, and the health care system in American society by examining issues related to the experience of illness, the healing professions, health policy, relations between providers and patients, and the effects of social inequality on health. Topics will include doctor-patient relationships, alternative medical practices, the sick role, variations in illness behavior, organization of the medical profession, social structure of the hospital, and politics of the health care system. A major objective is to encourage students to analyze sociologically relationships between the structure of society, the delivery of health, and the pursuit of health. Spring semester.
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This course covers four divisions of criminological study. It will address issues related to definitions of crime, the nature and extent of crime, the criminal justice process, and theories of crime causation. It will emphasize the relative nature of criminal actions, distinguish crime from sin and immorality, look at and understand official and unofficial crime data, and examine the positive and negative features of both adult and juvenile justice systems. Fall semester.
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1.00 Credits
Psychological anthropology is the study of the dynamic relationship between culture and psychology, with primary emphasis on non-Western cultures and their culture-bearers. This includes "folk models" of psychological experience (ethnopsychology). The course introduces the research, methods, and theory in the field and examines how culture interfaces with personality; mind (e.g., thinking, consciousness, and altered states, including dreams and trance); the constitution of the self and emotion; psychopathology (e.g., culture-bound syndromes); and personal experience. NWEST, Fall semester.
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3.00 Credits
Off-campus employment experience related to the student's major. See description of the Internship Program. Prerequisite: junior or senior status. Fall and Spring semesters and Summer.
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1.00 Credits
This course introduces the anthropological approach to ethnic and religious conflicts and violence. In modern times, most wars have concerned such conflicts. A majority of them have surfaced in non-Western states (e.g., between Hindu Tamils and Buddhist Sinhalese in Sri Lanka; Kurds and other Shiite and Sunni Muslims in Iraq, Turkey, and Iran; Hutu and Tutsi in Rwanda; and indigenous peoples versus Chinese immigrants throughout SE Asia), but also in Western states that include Christian groups (e.g., in Northern Ireland, Spain, and the former Yugoslavia). The cultural and religious character of several prominent cases will be examined, as well as their origins and historical development and their social, political, and economic dynamics. NWEST, Spring semester.
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A critical review of sociological literature relevant to an understanding of the functions (myths and realities) of publicly funded service bureaucracies in American society. In the spirit of profound sociological skepticism and as a matter of course policy, little will be taken for granted regarding the "benign" character of these institutions. SOSCI, Spring semester.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: junior standing and a minimum 3.0 GPA in the major.
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1.00 Credits
Major schools of sociological theory; theoretical concepts; basic controversies in the area of sociological theory. Prerequisite: S/A-112. SOSCI, Fall semester.
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