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New Core: Fulfills 3 credits in Area of Knowledge III or 3 credits in Area of Knowledge V. Fulfills 3 credits of Latin American Studies Minor/Certificate, Group D. Course Description: This course is designed to provide a comprehensive economic, political and sociocultural examination of insider/outsider interpretations of 'the Latino family.' Some of the areas of exploration include: the legacies of colonial and post-colonial rule, the notion of national sovereignty,; economic dependency and the impetus for migration; employment patterns and underground economy; gender roles; and race/racism. Course Rotation: NYC: TBA. 3.000 Credit Hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Tutorial Dyson College Arts & Sciences College Anthropology Department Course Attributes: Area of Knowledge III, Area of Knowledge V, Inquiry and Exploration
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New Core: Fulfills 3 credits towards Women's and Gender Studies Major/Minor. Course Description: An often misunderstood category, gender is a powerful marker is issues of identity, politics and social change. Through cross-cultural settings, this class seeks to bring nuanced understandings to various topics such as violence, nationalism, access to health, and religion. This course will also focus on the boundary formation and maintenance, global flows, the comodification of bodies, and agency. Course Rotation: TBA. 3.000 Credit Hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Tutorial Dyson College Arts & Sciences College Anthropology Department Course Attributes: Inquiry and Exploration
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New Core: Fulfills 3 credits in Area of Knowledge V. Course Description: This course covers a range of classical and more recent anthropological writings. Through ethnographic readings, the course introduces students to the controversies surrounding conducting ethnographic research and the relationships between anthropologists and their interlocutors. The course concludes by explaining the development of anthropological writings to changes in social theories. Course Rotation: TBA. 3.000 Credit Hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Tutorial Dyson College Arts & Sciences College Anthropology Department Course Attributes: Area of Knowledge V, Inquiry and Exploration
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Course Description: In classic ethnographies chapters on religion consistently appear along with chapters on kinship, social structure, and forms of subsistence. While the latter subject matters in various forms have all remained rather consistent in ethnographic research, religion has had a more contentious presence as anthropology has responded to and reflected society's views on the role and value of religion. This course focuses on anthropology's myriad understandings of religion as it has been approached through the various cannons ranging from functionalism and structuralism to symbolism and socio-cultural linguistics. From ethnographic research on the process of 'witnessing' to essays questioning the appropriateness of using religion as a category, this course explores the potential of the study of religion within an anthropological framework. Course Rotation: TBA. 3.000 Credit Hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Tutorial Dyson College Arts & Sciences College Anthropology Department Course Attributes: Inquiry and Exploration
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Course Description: This course develops students' understanding of cultures and peoples of the Middle East and North Africa through the medium of film. By analyzing films from several genres in conjunction with anthropology texts, we will examine a range of topics that color the region today: racial, ethnic and religious identity; gender relations, postcolonial conditions; and violent conflict. Additionally, we will address how the Middle East is represented in "Western" media and films. 3.000 Credit Hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Tutorial Dyson College Arts & Sciences College Anthropology Department Course Attributes: Area of Knowledge III, Area of Knowledge V, Inquiry and Exploration
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New Core: Fulfills 3 credits in Area of Knowledge III and 3 credits in Area of Knowledge V. Course Description: This course seeks to introduce students to the study of political violence and social change in Latin America, with an emphasis on the contribution of anthropologists and other social scientists working in the region. This course asks: How do individuals and communities rebuild and make sense of their worlds in the aftermath of violence How do they renegotiate their relationship to the state and to each other What resources do people use to rebuild their societies 3.000 Credit Hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Tutorial Dyson College Arts & Sciences College Anthropology Department Course Attributes: Area of Knowledge III, Area of Knowledge V, Inquiry and Exploration
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New Core: Fulfills 3 credits in Area of Knowledge V. Course Description: Everyday in the United States, we are faced with a barrage of conflicting messages about violence. Questions such as whether violence is ever legitimate, how much or how little is necessary, and what constitutes violence are but a few examples that muddle discussions on the topic. This course seeks to examine violence on the local and global levels through the lens of anthropology. We will explore the topic of violence in its many forms including but not limited to physical, economic, intimate, symbolic, structural, political, and familial violence as experienced through war, terror, domestic violence, police misconduct, imperialism and a host of other expressions. Through this course, students will learn to situate information about violence that they encounter through the news, interpersonal communication, experience, and the internet, etc. within a context of culturally and historically rooted dimensions of power and oppression. 3.000 Credit Hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Tutorial Dyson College Arts & Sciences College Anthropology Department Course Attributes: Area of Knowledge V, Inquiry and Exploration
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New Core: Fulfills 3 credits in Area of Knowledge V. Course Description: > Sex-books have been written about it. Movies have made it into entertainment. Magazines has mass marketed it. Social scientists have theorized it. Biological scientists have attempted to locate its origins. Theologians have debated it. Parents, teenagers, and most everyone under the sun has at some point in their lives discussed it. Is it a social construction or a biological fact Why does it elicit so much intrigue, fear, disgust and joy depending upon the subjects involved This course will explore the topic of sexuality, more specifically attempts to control it through a variety of measures from interpersonal violence to state sponsored oppression. Students will learn about historical and contemporary points of tension surrounding it, from the creation of definitions to legal attempts to control it. They will also learn how it has been used as a mechanism to keep particular social hierarchies in place. 3.000 Credit Hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Tutorial Dyson College Arts & Sciences College Anthropology Department Course Attributes: Area of Knowledge V, Inquiry and Exploration
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Course Description: This course reviews past and contemporary social theories and debates that inform anthropological analysis. Through a comparative analysis of the similarities and differences among various social theories, we discuss the ways anthropological methods and theories are shaped by social, political, and economic conditions in the world. Upon completion of this course students will be able to articulate a range of theoretical perspectives that can be used to inform their own research questions. 3.000 Credit Hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Tutorial Dyson College Arts & Sciences College Anthropology Department Course Attributes: Inquiry and Exploration
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Course Description: This course will address how anthropologists understand the mechanisms by which cultures explain uncertainty and events for which there are no rational explanations. It will include discussion of shamanism, taboos, oracles, and other techniques people use to make sense of their worlds. It will also explore the profound reciprocal influences of culture and religion. 3.000 Credit Hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Tutorial, Online Course Dyson College Arts & Sciences College Anthropology Department Course Attributes: Inquiry and Exploration
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