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In this course, we will study how television reflects and shapes American culture, from its beginnings as focal point of family life in the suburban 1950s to its current status as interactive experience. We will look at television as a business, as a medium, and as a cultural force. Within that framework, we will analyze who decides which programs to put on the air, and how they arrive at those decisions. We will also explore how people relate to TV and how it influences their everyday lives. Moreover, we will watch a selection of programs from the past decades to understand how television has changed over time, especially in regard to how it represents specific segments of the population, including children, women, and racial/ethnic minorities.
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The modern era in the United States has long been described by both critics and adherents as a “culture of consumption.” Beginning with the advent of mass production, advertising and branding, this course will examine the development of modern consumer culture, from its beginnings in the 1870’s through the present.
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In high school, “History” and “Sexuality” probably are not taught together. In this course, students will learn that these two subjects are so connected that they form the foundation of human culture. As our guide, we will use categories such as “marriage,” “family,” “reproduction,” “gender,” “sexual identity,” “bodies,” and the “normal” and “abnormal.” Some of these categories have changed over time, others have not, and still others have changed history itself. Understanding this process allows students to address major questions about history and society, such as: Who gets to reproduce? What makes a family? What is sexual identity? Why do we need laws to regulate human sexuality? Is sexuality based on nature, nurture, or both? Why can’t biologists and philosophers agree on one definition of gender? What are the limits of tolerance? Knowing how to address these questions will help you to become an effective and civil communicator and citizen. This course will prepare you for a wide range of college-level classes and debates—from politics and law, to ethics and justice, to biology, medicine, and public health, to psychology, philosophy, and cultural studies, to the visual, performing, and literary arts.
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Most of us know that archaeology is a science we use to learn about the human past, but did you know that archaeologists also do much more? Archaeology is used to solve crimes, understand global warming, develop environmental plans, and even to determine legal cases. Archaeologists use a variety of field and lab methods to study life as long ago as 40,000 years and as recent as yesterday. Students will learn about the tools and techniques used by archaeologists to gather, analyze, and interpret evidence. Through guest lectures by professional archaeologists and field trips to archaeological sites and labs, we will examine how these methods are used to understand specific aspects of past climates and cultures. With this foundation, students will visit a colonial archaeological site and conduct an archaeological field survey. Back in the lab, students will analyze and interpret a real archaeological collection excavated from Brown's campus, forming new conclusions about unknown histories of past college life.
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This course is an introduction to the theories and concepts as well as the research methods employed by anthropologists. The primary goal will be to challenge our assumptions about human behavior and the human psyche by examining cultures with different conceptions of gender, self and cognition. The role of nature vs. nurture in human social development, the association of psychological characteristics with gender and the naturalness of emotions will be considered.
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Henna art. Bleached skin. Foot binding. Medical tattooing. Each of these bodily practices represents a socially-constructed understanding of how the human body is treated and experienced in a particular culture. Constituted by much more than genetics and biology, the human body has social, political, physical, symbolic and technological dimensions which vary through time and across cultures. This course explores the body from an anthropological and archaeological perspective. It introduces students to cultural and historical variations in how societies understand and experience the human body. These variations have important real-world implications for how contemporary interest groups - including community, government, and nongovernmental organizations - design and implement programs relating to social and bodily wellness around the globe.
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Addressing global issues like poverty, hunger, and disease often seems overwhelming. Long-established institutions like governments, the United Nations, and the World Bank, have tried to solve these problems for decades with dubious success. This course examines new ways of thinking about global development problems.
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This course challenges students to explore the relationships between medicine and its social, cultural, and political dimensions. Students will be introduced to the ideas and methods of medical anthropology, a tradition of cultural anthropology that uses ideas and behaviors of health and disease as lenses onto society. From organ transplants to refugee medical care, the course tracks pressing health issues from a social and cultural perspective to shed light on how health and disease are central to the ways we think and act in everyday life.
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What is archaeology? How has it contributed to the study of past human history and present-day human behavior? This course offers an introduction to the basic principles and methods of archaeological research. Several varieties of archaeology will be emphasized, including: prehistory, historical archaeology, maritime archaeology and forensic archaeology. Students will experience archaeology firsthand through laboratory exercises, artifact analyses, interactions with professional archaeologists, and may visit an archaeological site.
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From the great symposia of Ancient Greece, to the saloons of the Old West, from the first cookbook to “Top Chef”, this course will explore the essential place of food within society from ancient times to the present in global perspective. Through hands-on anthropological and archaeological research, class discussions, lectures, film screenings and assigned readings from anthropology, archaeology and history we will investigate such themes as cooking and eating; feasting and community; food as a trade good; national cuisines; gender; and the material objects we associate with food. We will also deeply examine diverse topics in the history of food including the development of agriculture, the role of the European demand for sugar in the trade of enslaved Africans, the rise of the multinational food corporations, the development of the restaurant, and blogging about food in the Internet Age.
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