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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
The course is a survey of Latin American people and cultures from the conquest to the present. It will focus on culture change and sources of conflict by analyzing topics that include the economy, kinship, ethnicity, social stratification, gender, politics, religion, and the arts. Readings will include ethnographic description, history, biography, contemporary fiction. (YR).
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3.00 Credits
This course examines Middle Eastern society from a cultural perspective. Topics discussed include kinship, gender, popular and orthodox Islam, nationalism, mass media, urbanization, and historical relations with the West. The course ends with an examination of the Arab immigrant experience in Metro Detroit. (AY).
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3.00 Credits
Introduces anthropological approaches to European culture, emphasizing ethnographies and community studies as well as social history from the classical and medieval to the present. Will include cultural implications of industrialism and urbanization. May focus on Western or Eastern Europe during a given semester. (AY).
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3.00 Credits
An examination of the social and cultural systems that lead to power, privilege, and inequality in American culture. This course takes a local perspective, analyzing systems of inequality as related to such factors as race, ethnicity, gender, social class and sexual orientations. Field trips to local sites are included. (YR)
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3.00 Credits
Examination of problems and issues in selected areas of anthropology. Title in Schedule of Classes will change according to content. Course may be repeated for credit when specific topics differ. (OC).
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3.00 Credits
Topic: Human Osteology. An introduction to the methods and theory of human osteology, bone histology, pathology, biomechanics and taphonomy. Osteology lecture topics include age, sex, stature and ancestry estimation, the problems of commingling and differential disease diagnosis. The lab component provides hand-on skills. The course investigates how the forensic anthropologist can apply skills to human rights and police investigations and the nuances distinguishing theoretical approaches of forensic anthropology and bioarchaeology.
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3.00 Credits
Examination of problems and issues in selected areas of anthropology. Title in Schedule of Classes will change according to content. Course may be repeated for credit when specific topics differ. Junior standing required. (OC).
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3.00 Credits
Advanced seminar on selected topics offered through honors program. (OC).
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3.00 Credits
Topic: Sugar, Salt, and Fat. This tutorial takes an historical, anthropological, and biological approach to the use of sugar, salt, and fats in the human diet. People have biological requirements for sugar and salt, and these nutrients have important biological impacts on people. At the same time, the need for these nutrients forces people to migrate great distances; create new technology for production, transport, and consumption of foods containing these nutrients; organize and reorganize their social groups; and develop new economic and political organizations. Specific topics will be the rise of colonialism, slavery, global trade, and the anthropology of eating.
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1.00 - 6.00 Credits
Readings or analytical assignments in anthropology in accordance with the needs and interests of those enrolled and agreed upon by the student and instructor. Permission of instructor required. (F,W).
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