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3.00 Credits
3 HOURS, 3 CREDITS Cross-cultural study of religious beliefs and practices and the ways in which they are related to other aspects of culture including deviance and social control. Prerequisites: ENG 101 and sophomore standing or above.
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3 HOURS, 3 CREDITS Death and dying will be viewed from the perspectives of a variety of academic disciplines and applied fi elds. Th e course will deal with the dying process: the diff erent cultural practices and beliefs related to this process; its impact on the individual and his or her family, particularly in the areas of grief, mourning and restructuring of the family; and it will examine the ways diff erent occupational groups are routinely involved with death and dying and the methods they evolve to manage it for others and cope with it themselves. Th e course will also explore diff erent types of death, death at diff erent periods in the life cycle, euthanasia, abortion and ethical, religious existential issues related to death and dying. Th e course will be multidisciplinary. Prerequisites: ENG 101, and an introductory course in sociology, anthropology, philosophy, or psychology.
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3 HOURS, 3 CREDITS An analysis of crime and its relation to other aspects of culture in Western and non-Western societies. Topics include those who have been labeled as bandits, criminals and rebels; women who have turned to crime in an attempt to resolve the contradictions of their position; and the impact of Western culture and colonization on crime and justice in the non-Western world. Prerequisites: ENG 101 and any social science course.
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3 HOURS, 3 CREDITS Th e factors in and the eff ects of cultural conditioning on the biological foundations of personality. A study, on a cross-cultural basis, of the conditioning factors of childcare and training, group values and attitudes, practices and culture forms, with reference to basic personality formation. Prerequisites: ENG 102 or ENG 201, junior standing or above, and one of the following: ANT 101, PSY 101 or SOC 101
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3 HOURS, 3 CREDITS Cross-cultural comparison of legal systems. Consideration of concepts of justice, rules of procedure, methods of punishment and rehabilitation. Prerequisites: ENG 102 or ENG 201, and a course in anthropology or law, or junior standing or above.
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3 HOURS, 3 CREDITS Culturally diff erent groups use law in the United States to assert their rights and to maintain their cultural autonomy. Th ey may also avoid courts and solve disputes within their communities. Th is course examines, through legal and ethnographic cases, the ways in which culturally diff erent groups interact with law in the United States. Th e groups studied may include Native Americans and Native Hawaiians, African Americans, Asian Americans, Mormons, Amish, Rastafarians, Hasidic Jews, Latinos, Gypsies, gays, women and the homeless. Prerequisite: ENG 102 or ENG 201
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3 HOURS, 3 CREDITS A study of the ways in which diff erent societies defi ne “abnormal behavior,” with emphasis on the understanding of the societal basis of the selection and labeling of certain behaviors as “abnormal.” Th e social usesof deviance are examined. Roles such as the shaman, the transvestite, the homosexual, the saint, the sinner, the jokester, the aged and the mental defective are analyzed in the context of specifi c cultures. Various forms of psychological and social therapies to treat the abnormal are discussed, with examples drawn from both Western and non-Western cultures. Prerequisites: ENG 102 or ENG 201, ANT 101 or PSY 101, and junior standing or above.
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3 HOURS, 3 CREDITS A study of reading and reporting planned and carried out under the guidance of a faculty member. Concerned with a selected topic, issue or area of interest in anthropology, psychology, or sociology. Prerequisites: ENG 102 or ENG 201, and 12 credits in anthropology, or permission of the chairperson of the department and the section instructor.
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3 HOURS, 3 CREDITS Th is course will study and compare models of mental illness and treatment within Western cultures, non-Western cultures and migrating populations. Cultural notions of mental illness and healing and applicability of Western models of psychopathology, psychiatry, and psychotherapy to other cultures will be considered. Th e evolving role of Western psychology and psychiatry within the context of globalization of health care systems will be addressed. Topics will include self and culture; emotions and culture; cross-cultural diagnosis; psychotherapists, traditional healers and shamans; the immigrant as psychiatric patient; the politics of psychiatry in world health. Prerequisites: ENG 102 or ENG 201, PSY 242, and junior standing or above.
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3 HOURS, 3 CREDITS Th e study of major writings on deviance and social control of 20th-century anthropologists, psychologists, and sociologists who made seminal contributions to the contemporary understanding of the subject. Th e course, a seminar, will include selected writings of such theorists as Ruth Benedict, Emile Durkheim, Sigmund Freud, Bronislaw Malinowski, Robert K. Merton and Th omas Szasz. Prerequisites: ENG 102 or ENG 201, senior standing, and majoring in deviant behavior and social control.
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