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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
1 semester, 3 credits This course focuses on the social and cultural study of human, physical alteration of the natural environment; emphasizing the products of human building activity, place, and the social production of built forms within the context of society's institutions and history. It examines the meaning and impact of the built environment (including landscape) revealed in building decisions,metaphorical connections, and ritual.
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3.00 Credits
1 semester, 3 credits ( Social Science Core) This course examines substantive and theoretical problems of caste, politics, language, family, social change, religion, and artistic expression in India and the surrounding cultures of Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. Peoples of the sub-continent include traditional, tribal, and "modern" groups in order to understandthe multifaceted societies of this vast and influential area of Asia.
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3.00 Credits
1 semester, 3 credits ( Social Science Core) This study of the Himalayan Region includes Nepal,Tibet, Ladakh, Sikkim, Bhutan, and Mongolia. It concerns historico- political, familial, linguistic, religious, and artistic elements of the various cultures; addressing cultural stability and change in relation to each of the people studied through past centuries and in the contemporary period.
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3.00 Credits
1 semester, 3 credits This course studies the search for healing and wholeness through religious beliefs and rituals.The focus is upon healing rites at the formal and folk levels of expression, shrines and pilgrimages associated with the quest for healing, and systems of healing in syncretistic religions.
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3.00 Credits
1 semester, 3 credits This course studies the ideas and issues of importance in social and cultural anthropology as it developed within the framework ofWestern thought. Prerequisite: Junior or senior status.
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3.00 Credits
1 semester, 3 credits Field Experience offers an opportunity for understanding and growth in knowledge through a cultural setting other than one's own. Students and supervising faculty share responsibilities in preparation, actual time in the field, and the report upon return.The scheduling of the field experience depends on the nature of the project proposed with summer or other vacation periods being the preferred time.
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3.00 Credits
1 semester, 3 credits This course is intended to provide students with the opportunity to study a variety of subjects in anthropology of value in a liberal arts education, but which are not currently covered, or not ordinarily treated in depth.The format of the course may vary with instructor and topic chosen. Prerequisite: Junior or senior status or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
1 semester, 3 credits This course is designed to permit students to engage in intensive reading or special research under the direction of one or more members of the anthropology staff. Prerequisite: Permission of Department of Sociology chairperson.
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3.00 Credits
1 semester, 3 credits ( Fine Arts Core) A survey of the arts of Africa, Oceania, North and South America, including works of the Eskimos, American Indians, and South Sea Islanders.
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3.00 Credits
1 semester, 3 credits ( Fine Arts Core) A survey of the arts of India, China, and Japan presented in their historical and cultural context.
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