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3.00 Credits
This course explores processes of social and cultural change, ranging from gradual modifications during prolonged peaceful periods to sudden revolutionary upheavals. Factors inhibiting and facilitating change are discussed along with such topics as invention, development, social power movements, changing interpersonal relations, the impact of technology, cultural clashes and innovative religions. Included is Visual Anthropology: ethnographic photography, camera culture, and photographic states of consciousness.
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3.00 Credits
Each society has characteristic ways of regarding itself and other groups. In this course, anthropological points of view help students understand and analyze other cultures and their own. Innovative schools of thought in anthropology and their practical applications through research are emphasized. Also studied are questions universally asked by different cultures about the nature of humanity and the world.
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3.00 Credits
Introduces quantitative and qualitative methods useful to sociologists and anthropologists to investigate how people create and sustain culture and society. Some methods included are the survey, field observation, ethnography and content analysis.
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3.00 Credits
An investigation of interaction between the culture of a group and the thoughts, emotions and behavior of its members. Topics include group personality, patterns and types of normal and abnormal behavior, and cultural features of helping relationships. Students learn to observe and analyze human behavior from different perspectives.
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3.00 Credits
This course studies death from a wide variety of approaches and is designed to help students integrate objective descriptions and analysis with subjective thoughts and feelings. Our orientations toward death are compared with those of other cultures through such issues as terminal illness, experiencing death, prolonging life, and hastening death. Mourning, funerals, life after death and processes of symbolic death and rebirth are also explored.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an understanding of the complex interrelationships between cultural, biological, psychological, and environmental components of health, disease, illness and medical treatment. Some topics include medical explanatory beliefs, adaptation, stress, illness experiences, healing techniques, patient/practitioner relations, and religion. Western biomedicine and many other medical systems of the world are compared searching for cultural diversity and universals. The variety of cases studied and the perspectives used ranges from the single individual, to diverse groups, to the entire global population. Students apply anthropology and other disciplines to the experience of being sick and to the delivery of health care in many different cultures.
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3.00 Credits
This capstone course reviews the major concepts, theories and methodologies of anthropology and sociology and offers students leadership, teaching, and volunteer service opportunities to demonstrate their unique knowledge and skills in social situations, in social services and in high schools.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
This course explores new topics and current developments in the discipline. The seminar emphasizes student research, presentation and discussion and may be repeated for credit.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to explore how museums, galleries, and collectors acquire art and display art. We will read articles, case law that deal with these issues of collecting and display. We will explore the question of how, if at all, do the means of acquiring art works impact their exhibition. Reading subjects will range from Napoleon, World War II, Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, King Leopold and the Congo, Nigeria, Egypt, Angkor Wat and Iraq. This is a first-year seminar course and meets the First-Year Seminar requirement of the GECC.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the history of Western art as expressed in different medias such as painting, sculpture, and architecture from the prehistoric to the modern era. Meets Part II.A.3. of GECC.
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