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3.00 Credits
Introduction to African cinema as a contemporary art form and as a window on the social and cultural realities of Africa. The course will include discussion of modern African culture, the African film industry, and African cinema as an art form and as popular entertainment. Same as AFST 266.
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3.00 Credits
Course introduces Africa to students who have read little or nothing about the continent. The course will provide a "user-friendly" approach by offering engagingly written narratives of actual lives lived. The texts are a combination of memoirs written by Africans (about their childhood experiences growing up in various regions of Africa) and by non-African scholars and other authors (including but not limited to anthropologists) who have spent significant amounts of time on the continent. Same as AFST 267. Prerequisite: Completion of Campus Composition I general requirement.
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3.00 Credits
Do all peoples view neighboring or distant populations as radically different "Others," or can humans create mutual images based on a notion of shared humanity? Course compares and analyzes the range of images of ethnic, "racial", gender, class and bodily differences that have been enacted historically and cross-culturally in both Western and non-Western populations. Prerequisite: A previous course in history and/or one of the social sciences would be helpful.
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to linguistic anthropology as a major sub-discipline within the field of anthropology. Problems of elicitation and analysis of language as faced by anthropologists. The roles of language in the other major sub-disciplines (biological, archaeological, and social anthropology) are explored. Credit is not given for both ANTH 270 and ANTH 271. Prerequisite: ANTH 103 or ANTH 104 or LING 100, or consent of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Course is identical to ANTH 270 except for the additional writing component. Credit is not given for both ANTH 271 and ANTH 270. Prerequisite: ANTH 103 or ANTH 104 or LING 100 or consent of instructor; completion of campus Composition I general education requirement.
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3.00 Credits
Study of the cultural legacy and history of the Sephardic Jews, mostly focusing on the Mediterranean and the thriving communities they established in countries of Muslim governance and in the Balkans, and more recently in America. The Judeo-Spanish language, which has been preserved until the end of the twentieth century, the press, literature and music will be components of this course. Same as HIST 267 and RLST 275.
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3.00 Credits
Examine urban development from its origins to the present day. Among the concepts covered are urbanism, urbanization, ceremonial centers and ceremonial cities, the city as a system, the spatial and economic organization of cities, and the built environment (sacred landscapes, vernacular architecture, places of power). Small field project is conducted in Champaign-Urbana.
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3.00 Credits
Examination of how climate changes impacts society. With the increasing need to understand how climate changes and society intersect at present, it increasingly is becoming important that we address critical questions about how lessons from the past inform on present needs. Case studies from around the world are discussed.
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3.00 Credits
Overview of health and illness in human societies emphasizing interactions among stress, adaptability, and culture. Case studies of differing cultural and ecological settings, past and present, and of differing health care systems are related to alternative theories of health and illness, including contemporary cosmopolitan medicine.
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3.00 Credits
Anthropological approaches and methods related to the student's everyday life situation; explanation and use of ritual, ideology, myth, communication, media images, rites of passage, structure, symbols, and other concepts so that the student may develop a more critical understanding of contemporary American society and his or her position in it.
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