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3.00 Credits
An examination of the processes of culture contact among the peoples of Europe, Africa, Asia, and the New World, and its effect on the distribution of wealth, power, and status in the modern world system. Topics to be covered include colonialism, nationalism, and cultural revitalization with special emphasis on Africa and Latin America.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the basic research techniques used in the social sciences with an emphasis on research design, data collection, and analysis. This course will include an overview of common methods within the social sciences, including ethnography, qualitative interviews, focus groups, historical comparative methods, experiments, and survey methods. Attention will be given to the analysis of both quantitative and qualitative data using computer software. (Also listed as SOCI 3359.)
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3.00 Credits
This course provides a hands-on approach for learning how to undertake quantitative social research focused on the design and completion of a semester-long research project. A variety of statistical tools are addressed, including descriptive statistics, tests of significance, and linear regression and correlation. The course goals emphasize writing and rewriting, learning how to formulate and test research hypotheses, and understanding how to present results in an accurate and effective manner. (Also listed as SOCI 3360 and URBS 3360.) Prerequisite: ANTH 3359 or SOCI 3359 or consent of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides a hands-on approach for learning how to undertake qualitative research through fieldwork, focused on the design and completion of a semester-long research project. The course goals emphasize survey and interview techniques, writing and rewriting, and understanding how to present results in an accurate and effective manner. (Also listed as SOCI 3361.) Prerequisite: ANTH 3359 or SOCI 3359 or consent of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Students will examine the social context of food in which it is produced, distributed, and consumed among different cultures and in the contemporary global political economy. Topics include the cultural context of food choice, the political economy of world hunger, corporate challenges to food self-sufficiency, and food and nutritional politics in the contemporary United States.
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3.00 Credits
Students will analyze the impact of water resource development on peoples, the varied cultural meanings of water and water resources, as well as the political process of funding and building water resource projects. Tensions between culture and power will be analyzed as they structure perceptions and experiences of water scarcity, transforming water from a natural resource into a social construction.
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3.00 Credits
The course addresses rationality and morality in economic relations from a cross-cultural perspective. Lectures and readings will draw on neoclassical, Marxist, and cultural ecological models and look at case studies in Southeast Asia and Latin America. In addition to analyzing tribal and peasant economies, this course will study theories of global economic development.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides a hands-on approach for learning how to undertake spatial social research focused on the design and completion of a semester-long research project. Spatial tools introduced emphasize geographic information systems. The course goals include map making and the integration of information technology and cartography. (Also listed as SOCI 3365 and URBS 3365.) Prerequisite: SOCI 3359 or ANTH 3359 or consent of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
This course is a broad overview of anthropological forensics and will include a number of hands-on laboratory projects in which students will learn to catalogue human remains, as well as determine age, sex, ancestry, and stature from human bones. Additionally, there will be a focus on forensics and human rights, specific forensic case studies, as well as general techniques such as fingerprinting, hair analysis, and DNA fingerprinting. Prerequisite: ANTH 2310 or consent of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
The impact of colonialism and development on tropical forest and Andean Indian societies in South America with emphasis of the influence of native social and cultural systems in these groups' relations with national societies and international economies.
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