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3.00 Credits
Gender, difference and culture; the Classics, language reform; gender and politeness, language, gender and variation, the media, language socialization, work, politics and change.
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The aim of this course is to enable students to think critically about gender. Gender is something that you will have been aware of at different times in your life. One of the goals of a course on gender is to enable you to think about your experience of gender from a sociological perspective, that is to give you the tools to enable you to see gender in a theoretical way. A range of theoretical perspectives will be examined, including socialisation theory, ethnomethodology, feminist theories and RW Connell's model of the gender order.
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Cholula is the oldest living city in the Americas, and this course will treat the historical, economic, ethnic, religious and social factors which give the city its identity and its character as part of the Mexican nation state. Visits to local sites and community service required.
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3.00 Credits
Host University number ANTH 2219; What does it mean to live within (and outside of) Australian social structures and systems? Is there any such thing as 'Australian society' and, if so, how do social scientists go about describing and analysing it? This unit critically examines the main theoretical perspectives that have been applied to studies of Australian social life. An important objective is to provide students with the conceptual tools required for developing a critical understanding of major characteristics of 'Australian society'. Particular attention is paid to issues relating to institutions like the family, education, the law, social services as well as issues of belonging and community identity. Topics covered include Australian community studies, national identity and migration, gender relations, social inequality and stratification, the rural versus urban divide and the production and consumption of cultural capital. Historical and contemporary analyses of Australian society are complemented by a selection of thought-provoking ethnographic and documentary films.
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Perth course number ANTH 2224 - This unit is offered in partnership with the Berndt Museum of Anthropology and the School of Indigenous Studies. It introduces students to the anthropology of Australian Aboriginal visual art, focusing on various anthropological approaches to understanding the productions of individual artists within their respective socio-cultural contexts. Frameworks derived from the sub-disciplines of visual anthropology, cultural anthropology, the new museology and the anthropology of art provide analytical structure for approaching an understanding of Australian Aboriginal art within the broader Australian post-colonial setting. Several local Aboriginal artists and commentators participate in the unit as guest lecturers. Topics addressed may include rock art as a living tradition; regional perspectives and stylistic values; art and the transmission of culture; art and its relationship to land; cultural creativity and the maintenance of religious knowledge; art and the emergence of new identities; respecting cultural values; and appropriation and copyright.
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3.00 Credits
This course was taught as ANTH 2215 "Contemporary Indigenous Australia" at the host institution. This unit discusses key debates about indigenous Australians as they occur within anthropology and throughout the wider public domain. Some of the issues covered have a high public profile, such as land rights, health, economic development and reconciliation. The unit deals with these and other issues from a distinctly anthropological perspective that raises questions about indigenous identity, culture, constructions of race, self and other, belonging to a region and belonging to a nation, and social change.
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Taught as ANTH 2217 "Anthropology of Gender and Sexuality" at host institution. Culture/gender/sexuality provides a significant site from which all forms of social life can be explored. This unit examines the centrality and diversity of gender relations and sexual identity by placing an emphasis on cultural beliefs and practices in a range of ethnographic settings. By way of written texts, popular culture and contemporary film, the themes considered include how the relationships between women and men are constituted, the politics of sexual difference, gender-crossing, dress and language, and the intersection and representation of gender with race, class, religion, age and ethnicity.
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3.00 Credits
"LING 10010 Language Use and Communication at UCD; This module introduces the area of linguistics that deals with language use in social and cultural contexts (Sociolinguistics). It examines how language is used and perceived in relation to a number of social and cultural variables including the following: regional and social variation, gender differences, bilingual and multilingual settings, language choice, languages in contact, language change, language and thought, and language attitudes and stereotypes.It investigates how language is used and manipulated to achieve desired effects in communication, taking into consideration the medium of delivery, the setting, the nature of the audience. This module forms part of the BA programme for Linguistics. "
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3.00 Credits
ARCH 10020 Out of the Distant Past: The Prehistoric World at UCD;This module provides an introduction to the archaeology of the prehistoric world. It examines the evolution of early hominds and their dispersal from Africa; the cave art of the Ice Age Europe; and the hunter-gatherers of the Mesolithic, the period of the first human settlement of Ireland. The subsequent Neolithic period is when farming societies became established in Europe and monumental tombs for the dead, such as Newgrange, were constructed. During the Bronze Age, the invention of metalworking resulted in the development of chiefly societies. Students are introduced to this material and to some of the ways it has been interpreted by archaeologists.
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3.00 Credits
ARCH 20050 The Iron Age in Ireland and the Wider World: Celts, Culture and Colonisation at UCD; This module is concerned with the archaeology of Iron Age Ireland both locally and in its wider European context. The material culture, including objects of gold, bronze and iron, is an important component of the course, and the burials of the period are examined in detail. The settlement evidence is also considered as is the extent to which the known sites reflect foreign influence. In this context, the major royal sites of the period are given detailed analysis with a special examination of excavated sites. Throughout the series the problems of celticity are subjects for deep and continued analysis.
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