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4.00 Credits
Fall. Credits: 4. Degree Requirements: Social Science, F9. Humans are always searching for meaning and order beyond the limits of the activities that are needed to guarantee their immediate survival. This course will consider the role of symbolic activity in the construction and maintenance of coherent and comprehensive systems of meaning that integrate human experience with the workings of the larger world or cosmos. Prerequisites: Anthropology/Sociology 103 or permission of instructor.
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4.00 Credits
Spring. Credits: 4. Degree Requirements: Social Science. This course examines various issues involving orality and literacy and their consequences for ourselves and others whose lives we wish to understand. The cultural contexts surrounding the invention and use of writing systems as well as the effects of literacy on mind and society will also be studied. Anthropologists use writing to record some of their knowledge about other peoples and cultures. While anthropologists have produced numerous "scholarly" texts, they have also pursued other writing projects: autobiographies of individuals from non-Western societies, poetry and the novel, science fiction and literary texts which may or may not conform to Western literary traditions. This course will not only explore some of these genres of writing but will involve a component of creative writing as well.Prerequisites: Anthropology/Sociology 103 or permission of instructor.
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4.00 Credits
Fall. Credits: 4. Degree Requirements: Social Science. The study of the complex and varied systems of interaction between people and their environment. Several competing models of ecological anthropology will be analyzed including materialist, symbolic, and systems approaches. No prerequisite.
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4.00 Credits
Spring. Credits: 4. Degree Requirements: Social Science. It is a condition of being human to understand in terms of projected assumptions of meaning based on one's historical, social, cultural and linguistic position. This course examines the phenomenon of the projective or "prejudiced" nature of human understanding and explores its implications for the self and the structure of interpersonal, institutional and cross-cultural experience. Students are assigned a question each week that must be answered in the form of an essay based on t he student s' interpretation of assigned readings. Student essays provide a context for seminar discussions of lectures and readings in social epistemology, phenomenology, and philosophical hermeneuticPrerequisite: Anthropology/Sociology 105 or permission of the instructor.
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4.00 Credits
Fall. Credits: 4. Degree Requirements: Social Science. An examination of major approaches to the study of socio-cultural change in contemporary peasant societies. The course will focus on how these types of societies function and change within the context of the larger systems of which they are a part. Special attention will be paid to the articulation of peasant economic systems with national and international capitalistic economies. Andean-America will be the geographic focus. (Course offered in alternate years.) Prerequisites: Anthropology/Sociology 103 or 105, or permission of instructor.
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4.00 Credits
Fall. Credits: 4. Degree Requirements: Social Science, F9. This course provides an ethnographic introduction to the cultures and culture history of sub-Saharan Africa and Madagascar. It also includes the study of various cultural practices and theoretical issues that have continued to fascinate anthropologists and animate ethnological discussions including state formation, witchcraft beliefs, oral traditions, and indigenous philosophy. Prerequisites: Anthropology/Sociology 103 or 105, or permission of instructor.
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4.00 Credits
Spring. Credits: 4. Degree Requirements: Social Science. This seminar course uses fundamental sociological concepts and theoretical perspectives to examine the historical and current realities of immigration and multiple race/ethnic identities, experiences, and relations in the United States. The course will survey a broad range of topics, with many touching on controversial debates that surround social stratification issues. By the end of the course, students should have the conceptual and theoretical tools to apply sociological perspectives of race/ethnicity to their everyday lives, to the lives of "others," and to U.S. society. Students accomplish these goals through extensive class discussion, writing critical commentary papers on the readings, and conducting individual and/or group research projects.Prerequisites: Anthropology/Sociology 103 or 105 or permission of instructor.
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4.00 Credits
Fall. Credits: 4. Degree Requirements: Social Science. Introduction to a variety of native peoples of South America. Emphasis on ecological adaptation to both physical and cultural environments. No prerequisite.
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4.00 Credits
Spring. Credits: 4. Degree Requirements: Social Science. An anthropological look at contemporary problems of change in South America from the perspectives of First Peoples (Native American, Indian) and other peoples (variously labeled peasant, third world, campesino, caboclo, etc.) marginal to the market oriented political economy of the region. No prerequisite.
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
Fall, Spring. Credits: 1, 2, 4. Designed to encourage senior or advanced junior majors to study intensively in an area of their special interest. Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor.
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