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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
A comparative study of family and kinship. Covers the structures and functions of family and kinship in different cultures. Emphasizes historical and contemporary changes in knowledge and practice focused on family, marriage, procreation, and kinship in the U.S. and the consequences of those changes for society. Prerequisite: ANTH:162 or SOCI:101. Same as SOCI:341. 4 SH.
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4.00 Credits
This course examines religious beliefs, practices and ways of life that have come to be labeled "fundamentalist." The course attends in particular to their emergence in the modern world and the ways in which they critically engage secular convictions about morality, aesthetics and epistemology. The focus of the course is on Protestant fundamentalism and the Islamic Revival, but, depending on student interest, the class may also consider "ultra-orthodox" Judaism or Hindu nationalism. Prerequisite is one of the following: ANTH:162, ANTH:220, SOCI:101, SOCI:102, a 100-level religion course or permission of the instructor. Same as RELI:3 60. 4 S
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4.00 Credits
Surveys major anthropological theories (e.g., evolutionism, functionalism, structuralism, symbolism, and post-modernism) and theorists (e.g., Malinowski, Radcliffe-Brown, Lévi-Strauss, Geertz, and Clifford). Examines how ideas about culture have changed over time. Takes a critical perspective by locating both theories and theorists within national and historical frameworks. Prerequisite: ANTH:162. 4 SH.
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4.00 Credits
Focuses on race and ethnic relations in contemporary society, and popular understandings of race and ethnicity in the US. Explores the boundaries and markers for membership in an ethnic, racial, or minority group. Specifically, this course regards race as a social construct that has significance for structural opportunities, experiences, world-views, and conceptions of self and others. Strategies used by dominant groups to maintain their power and privilege, and those used by subordinate groups to create and preserve their cultural identity and to resist their subordination also are examined. Prerequisite: ANTH:162 or SOCI:101. Same as SOCI:413. 4 SH.
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4.00 Credits
Seminars are offered on selected topics of the instructor's interest. Prerequisite: three courses in sociology or anthropology. 4 SH. Core: Capstone.
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4.00 Credits
Individual work for qualified students with a GPA of 3.0 or higher. Supervised readings and writings in advanced fields of anthropological study. Prerequisites: ANTH:162, three courses in anthropology, and instructor's permission. 4 SH. Core: Capstone.
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1.00 - 8.00 Credits
Individual student work in an appropriate setting. Open only when positions are available. 1-8 SH.
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4.00 Credits
An integrated overview of basic theory and production of music, art, drama, and dance for students interested in the study of elementary and early childhood education. Not applicable to art department majors or minors. Same as MUSC:099. 4 SH. Core: Perspectives on the World, Fine Arts.
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4.00 Credits
A survey of painting, sculpture and architecture from cave painting to A.D. 1400. Emphasizes standards of artistic achievement and basic principles of form and style viewed in social context. 4 SH. Core: Perspectives on the World, Fine Arts.
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4.00 Credits
A survey of painting, sculpture and architecture from A.D. 1400 to World War II. Emphasizes standards of artistic achievement and basic principles of form and style viewed in social context. 4 SH. Core: Perspectives on the World, Fine Arts.
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