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3.00 Credits
DasGupta, Podobnik Content: Issues in the relationships between First World and Third World societies, including colonialism and transnational corporations, food and hunger, women's roles in development. Approaches to overcoming problems of global inequality. Prerequisite: Sociology/Anthropology 100 or 110, and two 200-level sociology/anthropology courses; or consent of instructor. Taught: Annually, 4 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
DasGupta Content: The roles of women in developing societies. Issues of power, politics, economics, family, and health. The unequal burden borne by women and the impact of gender equality in the developing world. Countries examined from Asia, Latin America, Africa. 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
Hubbert Content: Popular and mass culture and public protest in Maoist and contemporary China explored through lens of classic and contemporary anthropological and cultural studies theory. Particular attention paid to changing relations between state and society. Topics may include Cultural Revolution and 1989 democracy youth movements, popular music, material culture, changing media forms, environmental protests. Prerequisite: Sociology/Anthropology 100 or 110, and two 200-level sociology/anthropology courses; or consent of instructor. Taught: Annually, 4 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Angst Content: Examination of the classic literature on the rise of nationalism and study of modern Japan as the non-Western example par excellence of modern nation-building at the end of the 19th century. Questions about how Japan fits and departs from the Western model of nation-state formation. Examination of the historical production of official narratives of national identity through violent and nonviolent "assimilation" processes of culturally distinct minority groups, as well as forms of resistance by those groups. Issues of center and periphery, and "civilization" and frontier in the processes of making modern state and citizen, and their implications for contemporary Japanese identity. 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
Goldman Content: Advertising as a core institution in producing commodity culture in the United States. Meaning and language of photographic images. History and theory of U.S. commodity culture. Methods of encoding and decoding in print and television ads. How mass-mediated images condition the ideological construction of gender relations in society. 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
Goldman Content: Mapping the world-historical changes in social, economic, and cultural organization that theorists call postmodernity. The transition from modernity to postmodernity; transformations in the political economy of technoscience and the information society; development of a society of the spectacle; shifting conceptions of identity and agency; relations of time, space, and commodification in the era of global capitalism. May include Antonio Gramsci, Walter Benjamin, Stuart Hall, Michael Foucault, Manuel Castells, Zygmunt Bauman, Judith Butler, Guy Debord, Jean Baudrillard, Donna Haraway, David Harvey, Paul Virilio, Celeste Olaquiaga. Prerequisite: Sociology/Anthropology 300; and two 200-level sociology/anthropology courses; or consent of instructor. Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Staff Content: The politically and historically vital issues of identity in Latin America, including ethnicity, nationalism, and gender. Theoretical tools for understanding these issues in other contexts. Through theoretical essays, ethnography, primary documents, and films and novels by Latin Americans exploring identity issues, the critical skills to analyze postcoloniality, subject formation, and processes of political organizing around "strategic essentialisms." The multiple forms of resistance, accommodation, and hybridization that accompany the meetings of many worlds on the terrain of the Americas. Prerequisite: Sociology/Anthropology 100 or 110, and two 200-level sociology/anthropology courses; or consent of instructor. Taught: Annually, 4 semester hours.
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3.00 Credits
Heath Content: Cultural practices surrounding the production and consumption of technoscientific and biomedical knowledge. Articulation between different constituencies, both inside and outside the scientific community, and the asymmetries that shape their relations. Heterogeneity of science, including contrasts between disciplinary subcultures and different national traditions of inquiry. Political economy of science, including the allocation of material and symbolic resources. Networks of associations that link human and nonhuman allies, such as medical prosthesis, robotics, information. Representation of science and technology in popular culture. 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
Heath Content: Examination of the body in society. How bodies are the loci of race, class, and gender. The body as a way of examining health and healing, symbols and politics, discipline and resistance. Social and ritual functions of reproduction (including new technologies) and of adornment, scarification, other forms of bodily decoration in classic and contemporary literature, film, dance. Formerly Sociology/Anthropology 295. 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
Staff Content: Advanced readings and major works in sociology and anthropology. In consultation with faculty, selection of a thesis topic; further reading in the disciplines and/or field research in the local area. Substantial written document demonstrating mastery of theory and methodology and the ability to integrate these into the thesis topic. Prerequisite: Sociology/Anthropology 200, 201, 300, and senior standing; or consent of instructor. Taught: Each semester, 4 semester credits.
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