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  • ANTH 303: People and Conservation

    3.00 Credits
    Loyola University Chicago

    This course considers the interplay between indigenous peoples and environmental resources utilizing current perspectives from evolutionary and community ecology, conservation biology, anthropology, political ecology snd economics. Outcomes: Students will demonstrate an understanding of factors influencing this interplay, including environmental ethics, traditional environmental knowledge, resource management, community-based conservation, property rights, common-pool resources, sustainable development, land tenure, indigenous movements, and eco-tourism.
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  • ANTH 304: History of Anthro Thought

    3.00 Credits
    Loyola University Chicago

    Prerequisite: ANTH 102. Focusing on the historical contexts in which anthropological theory developed, this course addresses relationships between historical circumstances and leading theorists, and the questions they asked. Outcome: Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of Victorian evolutionism; the American historical school; cultural materialism; symbolic and interpretive anthropology; structuralism; functionalism; feminist anthropology; political economy; and post modernism.
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  • ANTH 305: Violence and Culture

    3.00 Credits
    Loyola University Chicago

    This course examines the comples relationships between violence and culture using the ethnographic method as practiced by anthropologists and other social scientists. Outcome: Students will demonstrate an understanding of the ways violence destroys, alters or produces forms of cultural meaning and social action and the ways in which cultural difference impacts patterns of violence.
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  • ANTH 306: Anthropology and Human Rights

    3.00 Credits
    Loyola University Chicago

    Prerequisite: ANTH 102 or Department Permission. This course examines the concept of universal human rights, and the social movement that has developed to promote human rights, from an anthropological perspective. Outcomes: Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of the social and historical origins of the concept of human rights and analyze the debates that arise out of applying the concept of human rights in cross-cultural contexts.
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  • ANTH 307: The Human Body in Cultural Perspective

    3.00 Credits
    Loyola University Chicago

    This course examines the significance and nature of surface and deep culturally originated modifications of the human body. Outcome: The student will demonstrate an understanding of the cultural importance and meaning of body modifications through the use of a cross-cultural perspective on past and contemporary modification practices.
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  • ANTH 308: Media and Cultural Change

    3.00 Credits
    Loyola University Chicago

    The course considers the transformative effects of communications technology on the social and cultural aspects of human life. Outcome: Students will understand how anthropological ethnography can actually be set into the context of our contemporary electronic culture.
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  • ANTH 309: Urban Anthropology

    3.00 Credits
    Loyola University Chicago

    Prerequisite: ANTH102 or 271. This course is focused on defining characteristics of city life across a variety of societies It particularly considers urban complexity in the context of the globalization of cities. Outcome: Students will gain a cross-cultural and global outlook on the defining features of urbanism.
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  • ANTH 310: Social Anthropology

    3.00 Credits
    Loyola University Chicago

    Prerequisite: ANTH 102. Theoretical frameworks and methods used in the scientific study of culture, society and personality. Outcome: Students will be able to demonstrate a knowledge of various anthropological approaches to understanding social structure, social organization, and social institutions; major societal types; and selected classic problems in social anthropology.
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  • ANTH 311: Evolution of Culture

    3.00 Credits
    Loyola University Chicago

    Prerequisite: ANTH 102. Examination of contemporary theories of cultural evolution including culture as environmental adaptation; systemic relationships between environments, technology, subsistence, socio-political organization, and ideology; socio-cultural development and the increasing scale of society and energy harvesting; modes of cultural transmission; and economic globalization. Outcome: Students will be able to draw connections between theories of cultural evolution and historical and contemporary patterns of cultural diversity and change, including assessments of environmental sustainability.
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  • ANTH 313: Interpretive Anthropology

    3.00 Credits
    Loyola University Chicago

    Prerequisite: ANTH 102 or 271, or Cultural Area Requirement. This course highlights the recent turn away from natural science models for ethnography. It stresses the relevance of literary studies to the writing and reading of ethnographic texts. Outcome: Students will understand that "objectivism" in ethnography is an out-of-date theory of knowledge. Raised awareness of the interpretive dimensions of ethnographic writing is the course goal.
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