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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course explores a broad range of cultural expectations for gender diversity and the experiences of women in different cultures. Outcome: Students will be able to demonstrate understanding of how categories and concepts of sex and gender are culturally constructed and reflect wide variation both historically and cross-culturally.
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3.00 Credits
The course deals with how human cultural identities are represented through the construction of both moving and static visual images. Outcome: Students will gain critical skills resulting in greater visual literacy regarding how constructed visual images are used to represent cultures.
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3.00 Credits
This course offers an anthropological overview of the major cultures and cultural regions of contemporary Latin America. Outcome: Students will understand the basic cultural processes that led to the formation of the socio-political landscape of contemporary Latin American.
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3.00 Credits
This course considers post-contact ethnography including key contemporary issues among indigenous North American peoples including Indian-white relations, assimilation, genocide, revitalization movements, sovereignty, environmentalism, urbanization, and native identity. Outcome: Students will be able to describe the pattern and basis of cultural diversity among native North American peoples and their historical relationships with Euro-American colonists.
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3.00 Credits
This course investigates popular culture, traditional African philosophy, and political economy in the postmodern era. Engaging an interdisciplinary approach, the course includes an overview of pre-colonial Africa (primarily West Africa), African intellectual contributions to the West, and the reverse. Outcome: Students will gain familiarization with Africana philosophy and orientation to the world as a prelude to understanding contemporary messages embedded within popular culture genres in specific regions of Africa.
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3.00 Credits
This course offers an historical and contemporary exploration of various efforts undertaken by African Americans and their supporters to achieve racial parity, social justice and equality with other Americans, from the early presence of Africans in the Americas to the present period. Outcome: Students will understand landmark legal cases brought to U.S. courts of law by African Americans and their supporters and strengthen their critical thinking and writing skills on these and related topics.
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3.00 Credits
This course critically evaluates popular and scholarly characterizations and theories about Japan through investigation of ethnicity, gender roles, language, demographic change, and the impact and role of popular culture. Outcome: Students will be able to demonstrate an awareness of how Japanese values and behavior are influenced by culture and history, an understanding of the relationships among cultural, economic, and social forces, and of contemporary social diversity.
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3.00 Credits
This course charts the development of Mexican culture (indigenous and peninsular) from prehistoric times through the colonial era to the present day. Outcome: Students will become familiar with the cultural geography of Mexico and will understand how Mexico's pre-Columbian cultures simultaneously affected, and were effected by, Spanish contact.
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3.00 Credits
Focusing on the culturally diverse region of Southeast Asia, the course considers historical dynamics, the diversity of religious orientations, gender and ethnic relations, nation-building strategies, and expressive arts (architecture, carving, film, literature and media), as well as the Southeast Asian Diaspora in the USA. Outcome: Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of the region's history, geography, religious, cultural and ethnic diversity, the major ethnographic themes and scholarly debates concerning the area, and the challenges faced by Southeast Asian refugees and migrants to the USA.
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3.00 Credits
This introduction to the varied cultures of Melanesia, Polynesia, and Micronesia considers traditional village societies and modern nation states, addressing gender relations, ceremonial exchange, kinship and clans, ritual, cargo cults, arts, the impact of development, contemporary uses of "tradition," urbanization, migration, and other current-day issues facing Pacific Island societies. Outcome: Students will emerge from the class with an understanding of the Pacific's history; geography; religious, cultural, and ethnic diversity; the major ethnographic themes and scholarly debates concerning the area; and the challenges faced by Pacific islanders in the USA.
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