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Kosansky Content: Introduction to the anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa, with an emphasis on the relationship between global and local forms of social hierarchy and cultural power. Topics include tribalism, ethnicity, colonialism, nationalism, gender, religious practices, migration, the politics of identity. Prerequisite: Sociology/Anthropology 100 or 110, and sophomore standing; or consent of instructor. Taught: Annually, 4 semester credits.
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Heath Content: Political economy and social consequences of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Social and cultural forms arising from the plantation economy and from contact between Africans and Native Americans within communities of maroons, escaped slaves. The reciprocal influence of African and American cultures in music, religion, and material culture. African American cultures of Latin America and the Caribbean. Prerequisite: Sociology/Anthropology 100 or 110, and sophomore standing; or consent of instructor. Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
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Staff Content: Independent reading and/or research in an area other than the normal course offerings of the department. Prerequisite: Consent of department. Taught: Each semester, 1-4 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Goldman Content: Classical origins of general methods, theories, and critical issues in contemporary social science and social thought. Early market-based social theories of Hobbes and Locke, Enlightenment social theorists such as Rousseau and Montesquieu, Burke's critique of the Enlightenment, Hegel's dialectical critique. "Classical" social theories of Marx, Durkheim, and Weber. Twentieth-century paradigms such as symbolic interaction, structuralism, critical theory, contemporary feminist theories. Prerequisite: Sociology/Anthropology 100 or 110, one 200-level sociology/anthropology course, and sophomore standing; or consent of instructor. Enrollment preference given to departmental majors fulfilling degree requirements. Taught: Annually, 4 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Podobnik Content: Exploration of research traditions and debates in the field of environmental sociology. How contemporary patterns of industrial production, urbanization, and consumption intensify ecological problems; why harmful effects of pollution disproportionately impact disadvantaged groups; what kinds of social movements have mobilized to protect ecosystems and human communities from environmental degradation. Introduction to basic concepts from urban sociology, theories of social inequality, environmental justice topics, social movements research. Prerequisite: Sociology/Anthropology 100 or 110, and two 200-level sociology/anthropology courses; or consent of instructor. Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Kosansky Content: Religion in its social, cultural, and historical dimensions explored in light of classical theories in the sociology and anthropology of religion. Marx, Weber, Durkheim, Freud, more recent phenomenologists. How religion defines personal and group identity. How religion contributes to social stability and serves as an agent of social change. Prerequisite: Sociology/Anthropology 100 or 110, and two 200-level sociology/anthropology or Religious Studies courses; or consent of instructor. Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Goldman, Mechlinski, Podobnik Content: Social change from the social movements perspective; contradictions and crises generated between prevailing institutional forces and cultural formations; world systems models. Diasporas and migration, market forces, environmental relations, science and technology, development issues in the southern hemisphere. Prerequisite: Sociology/Anthropology 100 or 110, and two 200-level sociology/anthropology courses; or consent of instructor. Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Angst Content: An upper-level introduction to the anthropology of violence, including recent literature in the field as well as classical examples of the study of violence by anthropologists. Questions of control, responsibility/accountability, public-/private-sphere boundaries, ritual/symbolic meanings. Topics include possible biological bases of aggression; symbolic enactment of violence; nationalism and militarism; the politics of gender, race, class, and ethnic identity; state violence; human rights. Prerequisite: Sociology/Anthropology 100 or 110, and two 200-level sociology/anthropology courses; or consent of instructor. Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Podobnik Content: The structures and interrelationships of power, the state, and their relationship to civil society. Studies of state-building, community and national power, elites, the public sphere, and social movements of the left and right examined in light of classical and contemporary theories of the state. Prerequisite: Sociology/Anthropology 100 or 110, and two 200-level sociology/anthropology courses; or consent of instructor. Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
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Hubbert, Podobnik Content: Examination of contestations between social movements, corporations, and political institutions. Case studies drawn from diverse periods of history and regions of the world. Approaches include comparative-historical methods, social movements research, social network theory. Prerequisite: Sociology/Anthropology 100 or 110, and two 200-level sociology/anthropology courses; or consent of instructor. Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
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