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3.00 Credits
This seminar will take an interdisciplinary approach to the study of the social, political, and natural history, literature, music, visual art, and architecture of the Mississippi River and its environs. The river will be considered in all its aspects, from the physical and geographical through the social, political, and economic to the symbolic and spiritual. ( Spring '09)
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3.00 Credits
This course is a study of the newly created United States from the making of the Constitution through the Jacksonian Era (1785-1840). It will emphasize key themes in the Early Republic, including the rise of American nationalism, the emergence of political institutions, economic growth and the rise of a "market economy", gender and the roles of women, the struggle to create a functional foreign policy, westward expansion, race and sectional tensions, and the changing characteristics of developing society. ( Spring)
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3.00 Credits
Anthropology is a holistic approach to the study of humankind. By examining different cultural systems around the globe, anthropologists endeavor to understand how people make sense of the world in which they live - their beliefs and practices. This class will introduce students to the basic concepts, theories and methodologies of anthropology. Topics to be studied include: the concept of culture, marriage and kinship, linguistics, exchange patterns, ethnography, and rituals.
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3.00 Credits
A cross cultural exploration of the phenomenon of death. We will examine how people make sense of death in a social and historical context. Topics include the concept of death, grief and bereavement, rituals, ethical and legal issues and the Hospice movement.
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3.00 Credits
This course will examine the relationship between language and culture and the culture of conversation. We will look at language as a natural resource and speaking as a cultural practice. Utilizing an anthropological perspective, we will concentrate on socio-linguistics or how language works in everyday life. We will also look at people who speak the same language but have problems in communication due to differences in class, age, gender and/or ethnicity. Topics to be covered include: language acquisition, discourse analysis, language and power, linguistic relativity and American Sign Language.
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3.00 Credits
This course studies health and illness beliefs and practices in different societies around the world. Students not only examine what individuals do, whom they consult and where they go when they get sick, but how people make sense of illness and misfortune in their world. Class readings and discussions focus on: concepts of health and illness, healer-patient interactions, ritual healing, pain, cross cultural psychiatry, medical pluralism and global health issues such as AIDS.
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3.00 Credits
How individuals know they are sick and what they do to return to health is governed by their cultural beliefs, values and traditions. This course examines at the relationship between culture, health and gender in different societies around the world. We examine the economic, political and environmental factors influencing women's health. Topics include: medicalization of the life cycle, childbirth, healers, mental health, gendered violence and international health and development.
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4.00 Credits
The fall semester provides a chronological survey of Western art, primarily of Europe, from prehistoric times to the Renaissance. The second semester surveys both an area of non- Western art and Western art from the Renaissance to the present. Museum papers are required. Students may take one or both semesters, in either order. When feasible, those with little art history background should consider taking ARH 1012 before ARH 1011. ( Fall) (Spring)
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3.00 Credits
An exploration of the lives and works of three of the best-known artists and architects of the Italian Renaissance: Leonardo da Vinci, Raffaello Sanzio, and Michelangelo Buonarroti. We will analyze these artists' work, training, and stylistic development, while examining the relationship of their work to the culture and artistic developments of the Renaissance. We will focus on understanding the role of patronage in their lives and works and explore the myths and legends about them--from divine inspiration to the burdens of terrible genius.
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3.00 Credits
This lecture course introduces students to painting, manuscript illumination, sculpture, and architecture produced in Europe during the 4th to the 14th centuries. Topics include Early Christian, Byzantine, Early Medieval, Carolingian, Ottonian and Romanesque art, as well as the birth and development of Gothic architecture. Lectures will also explore the evolution of cathedral sculpture, stained glass, and manuscript illumination. The end of the course will be dedicated to the study of the Gothic period in Italy. ( Spring '09)
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