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The purpose of this course is to introduce the multidisciplinary field of medical anthropology. Its emphasis is on reaching an understanding of health and human disease within a context of evolution, biobehavioral interaction, ecology, and culture. In addition, the practice of Western medicine and non-Western or alternative medical practices will be contrasted. Topics include disease transmission, demographics, social roles of the healers and the sick, cross-cultural differences in their view of sickness and the sick, the challenge of 21st-century diseases (AIDS, Ebola, drug resistant bacteria, parasites, and viruses). No prerequisite. 3 semester hours
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There are different physical characteristics among human beings, things like skin and hair color, body shape, and other physical features. How do we understand these variations, and how has their interpretation led to people's behavior? Anthropology has a unique interest in these questions as they touch on the core issues of the discipline: human evolution and the content of culture and ethnicity. This course will examine the issue of diversity from those two perspectives. The genetics of human beings and the evolutionary causes of variation in physical form will be investigated. The cultural interpretation of diversity will then be examined in terms of the attitudes and behaviors of groups toward one another. No prerequisite. 3 semester hours
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As social scientists assert, race matters. What is race? How does race play a role in American society? This course explores race from all of its dimensions: biology, culture, language, and cultural evolution. In addition to investigating the evolutionary factors that give rise to physical human variation, this course addresses the processes that gave rise to social inequality. Students use an anthropological approach to trace the formation of the current U.S. racial hierarchy from the colonial era to the present and examine the shifting character of racial discrimination across time and space. No prerequisite. 3 semester hours
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Archaeology is one of the four fields of anthropology. Its techniques involve the recovery of artifacts from the earth, including buried material from crime scenes. Its subject involves discovering the past and the nature and causes of societal evolution, especially over the longer term. This course looks at the methods, interpretative tools, and insights of archaeology with hands-on work in class, and the results of archaeological work from Old and New World cases. Prerequisite: Sophomore status. 3 semester hours
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This course teaches students how archaeology is helping scholars and lay persons to interpret the Old and New Testaments. The course begins with a review of the techniques and challenges of archaeological data recovery and interpretation: artifact function, dating, typology, style or symbolic analysis, decipherment, reconstructing activity areas, and regional analysis. Students then work their way through a series of specific cases-Abraham, the Exodus, the "conquest" of Canaan, David and Solomon, andJesus-to reveal what archaeology can and cannot do, and to set a cultural background for understanding the Bible. No prerequisite. 3 semester hours
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Traditional and modern China are compared. The treatment of traditional Chinese culture includes consideration of religion and philosophy, social and political institutions, arts, and literature. The development of the present-day political and economic systems is also covered, with emphasis on the Communist revolution. No prerequisite. 3 semester hours
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This course will familiarize students with contemporary Japanese culture, politics, economic structure, education, and religion. After a brief survey of Japanese history and traditions, the course focuses on Japan as a dynamic urban society which has both similarities and differences with other industrial societies. Topics include the family, national and local politics, Shinto and Buddhist religions, the national educational system, economic strategies, the salaried worker, yakuza (gangsters), the burakumin caste, mass media, women's roles, the elderly, and Japan's international role. No prerequisite. 3 semester hours
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to the cultures and culture history of a region that has had a critical impact on the development of Western traditions and on global politics, yet remains foreign and incomprehensible to most Westerners. This course illustrates the diversity of Middle Eastern cultures, economic and political systems, ethnicities, languages, and environments. At the same time, it shows how common histories have created some patterns that define the region and its peoples. Customs, ways of thinking and organizing, music, art, and literature that reflect both the commonalities and differences among Middle Easterners are examined. Of special note is the place of religion, especially Islam, in the lives and cultures of the peoples of the region. In this way, we try to understand the events of our day in a deeper way. No prerequisite. 3 semester hours
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This course will be a general introduction to the societies and cultures of sub-Saharan Africa. The goal of this course is to provide background information on traditional patterns of African life. This course will provide a foundation for understanding modern African ethnography, sociology, politics, and economics, which require a knowledge of traditional society and culture. The course will illustrate the differences and similarities of Africa's people and cultures. It will look at their geography, environments, languages, and food-getting practices. Major emphasis will be placed on the different culture areas and their typical social organizations and cultural practices. Among those are marriage and kinship, power and social control, seniority systems, thought, and religion. The rise of the African states will be considered at the end of the course. No prerequisite. 3 semester hours
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the way societies around the world (including, but not limited to the United States) construct and use symbols and their narrative forms: rituals, myths, and "artistic"performance. Symbols and symbol making reflect a uniquely human way in which people express their identification with certain social groups and with the ideals or values those groups represent. Topic areas explore the manner in which people from different cultures create and use symbols. Among the topics covered are symbols in religion, politics, promoting change, confronting external threats, constructing social groups and social movements. Satisfies Social Science general requirement. No prerequisite. 3 semesters hours
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