|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Course Criteria
Add courses to your favorites to save, share, and find your best transfer school.
-
1.00 Credits
This class examines the relationship between the Western world and African indigenous cultures, heritage, and ideas of the past. By looking at the history of science in reference to the treatment of Africans and African material culture, we will question who owns the rights to an indigenous past.
-
1.00 Credits
Examines the history, culture, and society of the Classic Maya, with special emphasis on Preclassic precursors, dynasties, environmental adaptation, imagery, architecture, urban form, and the Maya Collapse.
-
1.00 Credits
An introduction to the relationship between language and culture. Questions we consider include: how does language create social realities? How does language construct us as individuals and mark us as members of groups? What role does language play in processes like socialization, globalization, and domination? Topics we cover include theories of language as a symbolic system, language differences and inequality, political speech, and creative use of language in performance, literature, advertising, and mass media. We also consider language use in specific social contexts, such as classrooms, courtrooms, medical and scientific settings, policy debates, and political campaigns. Enrollment limited to 40. DVPS
-
1.00 Credits
Communities around the world are affected in different ways by the HIV-AIDS pandemic. This course is concerned with cross-cultural variation in knowledge, perception, and treatment of AIDS in a global context. Twenty-five years into the global epidemic, how does social and cultural variation influence the continued spread or management of the disease? In addition to reading significant anthropological works related to the meaning of AIDS in cultural context, the course will address major public health initiatives related to the global AIDS pandemic, and offer an anthropological critique of their design, implementation and success. Enrollment limited to 40.
-
1.00 Credits
An examination of the traditional and modern lifeways of native peoples across the Arctic and subarctic from European Lapland through Siberia, Alaska, Canada, and Greenland. Topics covered are society; ethnic relations; religion (Shamanism); art; and politics, including issues of land claims and home rule.
-
1.00 Credits
Western ideas of Africa are dominated by images of a primitive and timeless past and of a present characterized by poverty, AIDS, famine, and violence. In reality, Africa is a vast continent with a rich history and a population of half a billion people who live in very varied physical, economic, political, and cultural environments. We will read fiction by African authors, see African films, look at African art, and listen to African music. Goals of the course are: 1) Learn about the lives of a variety of Africans at particular times and in particular places, 2) Know the outline of the history that has formed the African present, 3) Understand specific world views and patterns of belief that have been described as typically African, and 4) Investigate the possibility, and the problems, of generalizing about Africa.
-
1.00 Credits
The area studies paradigm continues to provide solid information about "culture areas," and the rich ethnography and archaeology of Andean societies is no exception. Particular strengths emerging from this literature include studies of land use, religious syncretism, textiles, and collateral themes: continuities and recognizable features of "Andean culture" (lo andino), gender relations, migration, and politics. Throughout, we will analyze the ways that history, ecology, and the broad notion of reciprocity (ayni) cross-cut each of these. The result will be a close and in-depth study of cultural practices within three Andean countries (Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia), the majority populations of which continue to be indigenous (predominantly Quechua- and Aymara-speaking). These are countries within which recent political and social changes have produced far-reaching transformations. Prerequisite: one course in either Anthropology or Classics.
-
1.00 Credits
Examines the diverse cultures and history of the Americas - especially Brazil, Peru, Mexico, and the Caribbean. Topics include the organization of labor, cultural and artistic practices, changing conventions of gender and family, international migration, national and local identities, indigenous rights, and protest and rebellion.
-
1.00 Credits
An anthropological overview on the history and cultures of Native North American peoples from the prehistoric times to the present. Where did Native North Americans come from? What were their traditional lives like? What was their relationship with newcomers of European extraction, including anthropologists? What challenges do they face today? Indigenous and anthropological insights will be brought to bear on these and other questions.
-
1.00 Credits
Drawing on the rich North American Indian collections of the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, the goal of this course is to examine theoretical approaches to the artifacts of indigenous people and analytical strategies for their research and interpretation. Insights from anthropology, art history, American Indian perspectives, and conservation are explored. Meets at the museum.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Privacy Statement
|
Terms of Use
|
Institutional Membership Information
|
About AcademyOne
Copyright 2006 - 2025 AcademyOne, Inc.
|
|
|