|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Course Criteria
Add courses to your favorites to save, share, and find your best transfer school.
-
4.00 Credits
4 hours; 4 credits Case studies of specific societies—tribal, peasant, and urban—to illustratethe variety of anthropological approaches to understanding social relations. Discussion of contemporary social issues in comparative perspective. (social science) (p&d) Prerequisites: ENG 111, COR 100, and either ANT 100 or SOC 100
-
4.00 Credits
4 hours; 4 credits The evolution of non-human primates and human populations, with special focus on physical variation and its sources among contemporary human groups. The emergence of human forms of social organization and symbolic communication. (social science) Prerequisites: ENG 111, COR 100, and either ANT 100 or SOC 100
-
4.00 Credits
4 hours; 4 credits Origins of Native North American societies and their transformation following contact with Europeans. Special emphasis on the diverse ways native people have coped with, adapted to, and resisted continually changing circumstances from colonial times to the present. (p&d) Prerequisites: ENG 111, COR 100, and either ANT 100 or SOC 100
-
4.00 Credits
(Also COM 225) 4 hours; 4 credits An exploration of culture as it is defined by various disciplines and understood through prisms of class, race, gender, ethnicity, and the nation state. The class approaches literacy and culture from interdisciplinary perspectives, drawing on anthropology, sociology, literary theory, media studies, and gender studies. (social science) (art & com.) (P&D) Prerequisites: ENG 151, COR 100; and any 100-level ANT, COM, HST, POL, SOC, or WMS course.
-
4.00 Credits
(Also SOC 312/WMS 312) 4 hours; 4 credits A sociological and anthropological examination of the ways in which the production and consumption of food shape and are shaped by the self and the social world. A major theme of the course will be the gendering of food through topics such as women’s traditional roles as home cooks, women laborers in global food production, and female body image. Particular attention will be given to the meaning of practices of eating; preparing and sharing food for the individual, family, community, and nation; and how these practices are influenced by larger forces such as social inequality and globalization. Students are expected to conduct primary research. Prerequisites: ENG 151, ANT 201, or SOC 201, or by permission of the instructor
-
4.00 Credits
(Also SOC 330, WMS 330) 4 hours; 4 credits The social and cultural constraints affecting women’s participation and attainments in the world of work. Conflicts between work role expectations and gender role expectations (e.g., femininity, nurturance, maternity). The effects of class background and race/ethnicity on women’s occupations, professions, and incomes. (p&d) Prerequisites: Any 100-level sociology or anthropology course and any 200- level sociology or anthropology course or permission of the instructor
-
4.00 Credits
4 hours; 4 credits Case studies in the rise of civilization, in light of anthropological theory, using examples from Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, China, and Central and South America. The social and cultural changes associated with the rise of cities and empires, slavery, the emergence of writing and monumental architecture. Prerequisites: ANT or SOC 100 and any of the following: ANT 201, SOC 200, SLS 240 or permission of the instructor
-
4.00 Credits
4 hours; 4 credits Studies of small bands of hunters and gatherers in which basic human biological evolution and cultural development have taken place over three million years. Their social organization, gender and family relations, the tensions and alliances of gift-based economies, religions without leaders, and politics without chiefs. The contemporary situation of such societies. (p&d) Prerequisites: ANT or SOC 100 and ANT 201 or permission of the instructor
-
4.00 Credits
4 hours; 4 credits The central topic in political anthropology is the emergence of the state and urban society from tribal societies. This course will examine different explanations for the emergence of states and show the importance of this problem to anthropology as a whole. Prerequisites: Any 100-level sociology or anthropology course and any 200- level sociology or anthropology course or permission of the instructor
-
4.00 Credits
4 hours; 4 credits The social and cultural organization of urban life examined from two perspectives: detailed and comparative studies of households, neighborhoods, homeless shelters, and other urban institutions, and the transformations in the Third World involving mass migrations and industrial relocation. Prerequisites: Any 100-level sociology or anthropology course and any 200- level sociology or anthropology course or permission of the instructor
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Privacy Statement
|
Cookies Policy |
Terms of Use
|
Institutional Membership Information
|
About AcademyOne
Copyright 2006 - 2025 AcademyOne, Inc.
|
|
|