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4.00 Credits
Fall, Spring. Credits: 1,2,4. This course allows students to gain credit for participation in off-campus field projects under professional supervision in the fields of archaeological, social anthropological, and physical anthropological research. Students will be required to integrate academic and field work experiences in an oral and/or written report at the end of the field work experience. Maximum of 4 hours credit is possible. Prerequisites: permission of instructor.
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4.00 Credits
Spring. Credits: 4 While we are symbol users and inhabitants of imagined worlds, we are also tool makers whose hands are "dirtied" in manipulating the world. This course will focus attention on our "materiality" and our engagement with the material world. Examples of material culture studies will be drawn from such disciplines as archaeology, anthropology, geography, history, folklore, popular culture, architecture, and museum studies. Material culture studies, while a rich source of information, is also a challenging arena for the study of individuals, societies and cultures, because objects "speak" neither unambiguously nor directly to us. Students will come to appreciate how astute observation underpinned by theoretical acumen and the clever framing of questions can allow us to "learn from things." (This course is cross-listed as Archaeology 210.) No prerequi
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4.00 Credits
Fall. Credits: 4. Degree Requirements: Social Science. This course provides a general introduction to the sociological research process by addressing issues on research design, literature reviews, data collection, basic analysis and interpretation of data, and research reports. We will cover a range of quantitative and qualitative research methodologies, such as surveys, content analysis, and in-depth interviews. Students will read materials describing and employing these methods; practice conducting social research; and do presentations and write papers on consuming, conducting, and critiquing social research. Prerequisites: Anthropology/Sociology 105 or permission of instructor.
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4.00 Credits
Spring. Credits: 4. Degree Requirements: Social Science, F11. Participant-observation is the methodological core of anthropology. Yet, participant-observation is a critical qualitative method that should be exercised across all disciplines and professions that address the human condition. We will explore this assertion in practice and in discussion around the seminar table. This course will focus on the "doing" of ethnography by asking you to respectfully, socially, meaningfully, and sensuously engage with a moment i n another? ? world. One way to describe ethnography is as a compelling descriptive pause to appreciate another way of being in and giving meaning to the world before one begins sustained and systematic social analysis and theorizing. Students will write a series of short papers that contribute toward the writing of a descriptive ethnography and the presentation of their findings to a campus audiencePrerequisites: Anthropology/Sociology 103 or permission of instructor.
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4.00 Credits
Fall, Spring. Credits: 4. Degree Requirements: Social Science. Introduction to selected themes and topics in anthropology and sociology. Students may enroll and receive credit for this course more than once as the course themes and topics change.
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4.00 Credits
Fall. Credits: 4. Degree Requirements: Social Science. The major goal of this course is to help students identify and understand explanations of the social world and social actors that have become elevated to the status of social theory. Lectures will present certain "classical" directions of thought in sociology and anthropology. Students will undertake "critical" analyses of primary sources and write a series of reflective essays on their intellectual engagement with theoretical schools. These essays will serve as foci for seminar format sessions during the semestePrerequisites: Anthropology/Sociology 103 or 105.
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4.00 Credits
Fall, Spring. Credits: 4. Degree Requirements: Social Science. This course emphasizes contemporary and emergent themes in the respective disciplines as a means of keeping students abreast of substantial developments in these dynamic fields of social inquiry. Prerequisites: Anthropology/Sociology 103 or 105 or permission of instructor. Students may enroll and receive credit for this course more than once as the course theme changes.
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4.00 Credits
Spring, Credits: 4. Degree Requirements: Social Science. Anthropologists argue that rather than seeing the mind of "the other" as an imperfect or incomplete version of our own, we must approach it as an "alternative form." In this course we will be investigating questions such as: Do members of non-Western cultures "sense and think" like members of Western cultures? Do individuals from a non-literate culture actually reason differently from members of a literate culture? I s one cult ure's schizophrenic a nother cul ture's saint? Are some psychological disorders specific to certain cultures? Why is it that close to 90% of the world's cultures sanction some form of an altered state of consciousness? This course is recommended for students of both anthropology and psycPrerequisites: Anthropology/Sociology 103 or 105, or permission of instructor.
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4.00 Credits
Fall, Spring. Credits: 4. Medical sociology is the study of the socio-cultural factors that affect health, illness, disease, and medical care. Topics include epidemiology, social demography of health, the relationship between social stress and health, health and illness behavior, the physician-patient relationship, and the organization of health care and medical practice. These topics will be studied by combining classroom lectures, discussion and experiential learning. Students will participate in the ongoing implementation of a community health assessment of residents living in the Hollywood-Springdale area northeast of campus. The health study is part of the Community Outreach Partnership Center (COPC) grant project and is designed to identify barriers that limit access to health care among areas residents. This course is recommended for pre-med and health science majors, and social science majors. Prerequisite: Anthropology/Sociology 105, or permission of instructor.
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4.00 Credits
Fall. Credits: 4. Education is considered to be the primary means to realizing the American ideals of equality and success. This seminar course critically examines that idea by using sociological perspectives and research to understand how class, race, and gender affect educational opportunities and outcomes. Students will reflect on their own educational experiences by writing critical education autobiography papers, and they will have the opportunity to directly study educational issues byobserving and participating inlocal school systems. Prerequisites: Anthropology/Sociology 103 or 105 or permission of instructor.
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