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3.00 Credits
Both the phylogeny and ontogeny of language, i.e., both the wide and growing variety of scripts for the evolution of language in the human species and the various approaches to the emergence of language in the individual. The emergence of language in the individual and the particular language(s) the individual is exposed to, making linguistic relativity an important topic. Instructor: Tetel
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1.00 Credits
Opportunities for first-year students to engage with a specific issue in cultural anthropology, with emphasis on student writing. Topics vary each semester offered. Instructor: Staff
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3.00 Credits
Topics include surreptitious recordings as criminal evidence; pornography, slander, defamation, and libel; interpretation of laws and contracts; copyright, patents, and trademarks; jury instructions; jury selection; courtroom language as a unique register; the language of judges' decisions; interrogations and confessions; official bilingualism; product warnings; clarity of instructions leading to potential liability issues. Instructor: Butters
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3.00 Credits
Examines epidemiology and social context of mental disorders globally. Topics include basic epidemiology of most common mental disorders; challenges with definition & classification of mental disorders; epidemiological methods; mental disorders in the context of HIV/AIDS; disaster/emergency mental health; special populations; approaches to treatment; & barriers to treatment such as stigma. Course utilizes a social epidemiology perspective; focuses on social, economic, & cultural determinants & consequences of mental health problems across the lifecourse. Course designed for graduate students & advanced undergraduates. Prior research methods course recommended. Instructor: Maselko
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3.00 Credits
Interdisciplinary seminar examining visual culture and experimental social structures. Readings across academic spectrum focusing on alternative corporate models and workers' unions, early soviet social networks, neighborhood associations, anarchist communes, art collectives, minority alliances, reality TV, fan clubs and fundamentalist organizations, encouraging students to fuse theories of social change with practice to produce new social structures. Class productions may include research papers, performances, experimental theater, social actions, new media works, as well as conventional art forms. Work will be judged by its formal sophistication or aesthetic merits, its social or political relevance, and its engagement with methods of ethical inquiry studied throughout the semester
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3.00 Credits
Cross-cultural approaches to the psyche, including applications of social psychology, psychoanalysis, and trans-cultural psychiatry to anthropological questions such as culturally expressed psychic conflicts and pathologies, gender and sexuality, communication, rationality, affect, and motivations. Instructor: Staff
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3.00 Credits
East Asia as a historical and geographical category of knowledge emerging within the various processes of global movements (imperialism, colonialism, economic regionalism). (Same as Asian and African Languages and Literature 153 but requires extra assignments.) Instructor: Ching or Yoda
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3.00 Credits
An examination of modern Japanese culture through a variety of media including literary texts, cultural representations, and films. Different material each year; may be repeated for credit. (Same as Asian and African Languages and Literature 162 but requires extra assignments.) Instructor: Ching or Yoda
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3.00 Credits
Debates in cultural theory and anthropology: identity and nationalism, memory and tradition, globalization, and poststructuralist, feminist and postcolonial theory. Some previous coursework in anthropology and or cultural theory recommended. Instructor: Starn
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3.00 Credits
Critical examination of the problematic of capital from the late nineteenth century until the present moment. Anthropological frameworks and related disciplinary approaches to the multiple cultural productions and lived experiences under divergent forms of capitalism in the new millennium. Focus on East Asia. Theories of capitalism, globalization and anti-globalization movements, "imaginaries" and fantasies, nature and the virtual, consumption, and disciplinary practices of the body. Instructors: Allison and Litzinger
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