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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Focuses on relationship between work, gender, and social, cultural, and economic transformations associated with globalization in East and Southeast Asia.
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3.00 Credits
Uses anthropological case studies and historical material to comprehend ideals, practices, and themes of gender and gender relations in Islam. Introduces representations of Islamic belief in doctrinal, historical, and contemporary contexts.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the nature of tribal societies as they exist and have existed in the past, communities of a few hundred to a few thousand people linked by kinship, language and culture in a flexible political structure different from stereotype of tribal chiefs and warriors. Topics include evolutionary theories and archeological record of tribal development, institutional characteristics of tribal cultures, variability among tribal peoples, and contemporary views of concept of "tribe".
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3.00 Credits
Major cultural and social developments of prehistoric humans in North America, from the entrance of the PaleoIndians to the arrival of the Europeans in the 16th century.
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3.00 Credits
Uses archaeological evidence to examine human-environmental interactions during the prehistoric period. It considers how past peoples adapted to their environments with two subsistence strategies, hunting/gathering and farming. Addresses two topics that are relevant to our own time, the impacts that ancient societies had on their environments and how they were affected by climate change.
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3.00 Credits
Survey of archaeological complexes and chronology, including lower Central America from western Costa Rica to Panama, and South America from the tropical forests to the Andean highlands. Major topics include the domestication of plants and animals and the rise of civilization.
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3.00 Credits
Survey of world prehistory, excluding the Americans, from the earliest evidence of human activity until the rise of civilizations with particular emphasis on technological, economic and social change.
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3.00 Credits
This course discusses some of the cultures and subcultures of Europe, with special attention to the rural sectors and their historical development since 1780, with the birth of nations and nationalism. Geographic emphasis will be placed on the Iberian Peninsula and Italy. Using an interdisciplinary approach, the course will focus on the encounters between regional identities vis-Ã -vis the nation-state (relationships between the north and the south of Italy, Sardinian identities in Italy; Catalonian, Basque and Galician identities in Spain); tourism (travel, tangible and intangible heritage, lifestyle migration); racism and xenophobia, among others.
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3.00 Credits
Focus on the historical, geographical, and cultural specificities of cultures in the African diaspora. Addresses the following main topics: history and geography of the African diaspora; slavery and responses to slavery (rebellions and revolutions); the 'big thinkers' of the African Diaspora, cultural manifestations (music and religion); discourses of whiteness, and ways to remember the Motherland.
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3.00 Credits
Survey of the worldwide transitions from hunting and gathering adaptations to agricultural lifeways. Examines archaeological evidence of these transitions and theories of their causes and consequences using broad anthropological and interdisciplinary perspectives.
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