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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Qualitative Research Methods. The course is designed to teach students how to collect, analyze, and write up qualitative data. Topics include conducting and coding field notes, interviewing, participant-observation, discourse analysis, as well as the ethical treatment of human subjects and the ethical code for anthropological research.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an overview of anthropological approaches to the cross-cultural study of magic, witchcraft, and religion. It focuses on topics such as mythology, symbolism, ritual, magic, sorcery, witchcraft, shamanism, ancestor worship, dreams and visions, spirit possession, and rituals of purification. It will include a focus on integrating anthropological understandings with theological ones.
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
No course description available.
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
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3.00 Credits
This course involves a dialogue between anthropology and theology. Through anthropological readings, students will explore in different cultures the vocabulary of moral evil and the ways in which children are socialized morally. It will consider the ways in which cultures impact conscience, moral reasoning, and ethical understandings. The course will give special attention to the role of shame and guilt in the moral experience of people from diverse cultures. Finally, the course will consider the role of these dynamics and realities in the lives and experiences of Christians around the world.
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3.00 Credits
Through ethnographic readings, this course explores kinship, marriage, sex, and gender across diverse cultures. It will review older anthropological topics such as the incest taboo, polygamy, inheritance, gender, alliance, and descent. It will also examine recent topics, such as sex tourism, mail order brides, transnational adoptions, same-sex sexualities, new reproductive technologies, surrogacy, transgenderism, and the commercialization of sexuality (in pornography, sex work, and sex trafficking). Themes of the course will be related to issues of globalization, power, religion, and recent human rights discourses. The course will foster a dialog of anthropology with theology.
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
No course description available.
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3.00 Credits
This course studies the interaction of cultural and mental processes. It explores ways in which enculturation within a particular cultural group shapes processes of human cognition, identity, emotion, perception, motivation, moral reasoning, states of consciousness, suffering, and mental health. The course will focus on variable cultural patterns related to such things as honor and shame, guilt, anger, envy, conscience, and suffering as well as to cultural practices involving fasting, confession, dream interpretation, vision seeking, spirit possession, and healing. It will include a description and analysis of several ""culture-bound"" syndromes.
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
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2.00 Credits
This course provides students with the opportunity to approach the field of anthropology holistically and integrative faith and anthropological insights.
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