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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
The culture concept has gone through numerous transformations since it was first introduced into anthropology in the nineteenth century, and this course briefly surveys historical theories in anthropology, but highlights structuralist, poststructuralist, postmodernist, Marxist, feminist, postcolonial, and transaction theories.
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2.00 Credits
The medium of film can provide a window into the heart of a society, giving the viewer a chance to see inside the culture and minds of a people. This course will use commercial ("Hollywood") films as opportunities to explore themes and theories in anthropology, in order to gain insight into anthropological concepts and the society(ies) or subcultures from which the films originate. Diversity course. (2 credits)
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3.00 Credits
See HNGR 385.
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2.00 Credits
A review of the theory of cultural ecology and cultural materialism in their roles in understanding cross-cultural regularities, with examples and applications especially from the third world. Diversity course. (2 credits)
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3.00 Credits
A capstone seminar which evaluates contemporary issues within anthropology to address the relationship between Christianity and anthropological epistemologies, theories, and methods. Prerequisite: ANTH 216.
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3.00 Credits
Guided reading and research for the advanced students, or research internship in ongoing institutional or faculty research. Prerequisite: ANTH 285. (1-4 credits)
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8.00 Credits
Credit given in connection with an internship assignment in medical anthropology, missions, HNGR, cross-cultural settings which involve education, development, business, or family life with participation of a faculty anthropologist. Majors may apply eight hours of internship credit toward one anthropology elective course. See department for details, including course prerequisites. (4, 8)
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3.00 Credits
Discoveries related to human and cultural evolution are constantly changing our view of where we came from and how we got to be the way we are. This course considers the latest findings and controversies concerning evolutionary theory, our relationship to apes, our sexuality, bipedalism and capacity for language, the relevance of "race," ourlinks to Neanderthals, the development of what we call civilization and other topics. (Bruce Owens)
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3.00 Credits
This course explores cultural diversity in the contemporary world and introduces the analytical and methodological tools that anthropologists use to understand cultural similarities and differences in a global context. This course will acquaint students with the extraordinary range of human possibility that anthropologists have come to know, provide a means of better understanding the culturally unfamiliar and offer a new perspective through which to examine the cultures that they call their own. (Donna O. Kerner, Bruce Owens, M. Gabriela Torres) Connections: Conx 20023 Global Music
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3.00 Credits
This course concerns how food is produced, distributed and consumed. Topics covered include: how culture shapes taste, cuisine, nutrition and food production systems, as well as the ecological, economic and political factors that cause famine and food shortage. Films, case studies, guest speakers, action/service fieldwork and modeling exercises provide opportunities to think creatively about policy and action to increase food security for the most vulnerable at home and abroad. Students are expected to meet the challenge of bringing these issues into a forum for discussion on the Wheaton campus. (Donna O. Kerner) Connections: Conx 23002 Food
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