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4.00 Credits
The course will look at the construction, maintenance and articulation of race in the different regions of the continent within a comparative perspective. The main focus on the course will be to assess how different racial meanings and identities are negotiated throughout the Americas, and to see the differences and similarities of these regional over-laps. The course will also focus on how race is historically negotiated with other social categories such as class, status, gender, and sexuality, to produce the vibrant racial identities in the contemporary age of globalization. Particular emphasis will be placed on issues such as the social construction of race, the African diaspora, mestizaje, Indian (Native-American) social movements, and ethnogenesis. 4.000 Credit Hours 3.000 Lecture hours 0.000 Lab hours 0.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate, Post Baccalaureate Schedule Types: Lecture Undergraduate Colleges College Sociology and Anthropology Department
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4.00 Credits
This course discusses social and cultural practices that influence health, well-being, and recovery from disease and injury. Among the topics explored: the cultural construction of certain diseases and physiological process in America; the impact of AIDS on African and Western society; the link between an exotic disease like Kuru (New Guinea) and other neurological diseases such as Creutzfeld-Jacob and the so-called "mad-cow" disease in Europe; and issues of mental health and ethnopsychiatry such as Salem witchcraft and the incidence of anorexia in modern and medieval times. The course discusses social and cultural practices that influence health, well-being, and recovery from disease and injury in a comparative perspective. Among the topics explored will be: the cultural and historical construction of certain diseases and physiological processes in various parts of the world including America; the health repercussions of culture contacts and modernization in the spread and/or genesis of new diseases (e.g. Syphilis in the 16th century, or AIDS in contemporary society); the social effects of Kuru, a neurological disease thought to be unique to a single tribe in Papua-New Guinea, but that has been found to be closely related to Creutzfeldt-Jacob and to the so-called "mad cow" disease recently spreading in Europe; issues of culture-bound syndromes in mental health and ethnopsychiatry (e.g. Voodoo death, latah-types disorder, anorexia nervosa), as well as practical and spiritual ethnomedicine such as Ayurvedic, Chinese or American Indian systems of healing. Films will also be shown. 4.000 Credit Hours 4.000 Lecture hours 0.000 Lab hours 0.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate, Post Baccalaureate Schedule Types: Lecture Undergraduate Colleges College Sociology and Anthropology Department Course Attributes: Globalism
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4.00 Credits
This course examines the relationship among drugs, politics and society from a cross-cultural perspective. Includes discussion of the use of mind-altering and habit-forming substances by "traditional societies"; the development of a global trade in sugar, opium, and cocaine with the rise of capitalism; and the us e and abuse of legal and illegal drugs in the US and other selected countries. 4.000 Credit Hours 4.000 Lecture hours 0.000 Lab hours 0.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate, Post Baccalaureate Schedule Types: Lecture Undergraduate Colleges College Sociology and Anthropology Department
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4.00 Credits
This course explores the relatively new field of cultural anthropology of the United States. Anthropologists working in the U.S. study how larger social and historical processes are expressed in everyday life. The course relates studies of American cultures both to the development of anthropology and to the character of U.S. society, with a focus on identity, diversity and power.The course also examines the theory and practice of studying culture when the natives read what we write. 4.000 Credit Hours 4.000 Lecture hours 0.000 Lab hours 0.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate, Post Baccalaureate Schedule Types: Lecture Undergraduate Colleges College Sociology and Anthropology Department
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4.00 Credits
This course will survey the diversity of cultures in the world and the processes that have produced similarities and differences among and within various geographic areas. Some of the central topics of discussion include human adaptation and adaptability, social change, modernization and ideas of development in small scale as well as in complex societies today. 4.000 Credit Hours 3.000 Lecture hours 0.000 Lab hours 0.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate, Post Baccalaureate Schedule Types: Lecture Undergraduate Colleges College Sociology and Anthropology Department Course Attributes: Globalism
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4.00 Credits
This coure examines different forms of collective and transformative action that highlight the intersections of culture and power in modern societies. We will explore how ethnicity, religion, the arts, and new media technologies influence the efforts of cultural activists. Case studies address topics such as indigenous rights, HIV/AIDS activism, religious revivalism, identity politics, globalization, and environmental and social justice. 4.000 Credit Hours 4.000 Lecture hours 0.000 Lab hours 0.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate, Post Baccalaureate Schedule Types: Lecture Undergraduate Colleges College Sociology and Anthropology Department
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4.00 Credits
This course examines the contributions made by socio-cultural anthropology to political thought (especially theories of state and community) through a reading of ethnographies of conflict, both classic and recent. We will consider the role of language, ritual and violence in the life of political groups. We will also ask how situations of war and illegality can stress and even alter the conceptual boundaries of "the human." 4.000 Credit Hours 4.000 Lecture hours 0.000 Lab hours 0.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate, Post Baccalaureate Schedule Types: Lecture Undergraduate Colleges College Sociology and Anthropology Department
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4.00 Credits
This course is an inquiry into the biological and cultural processes by which human populations have adapted to the world's diverse ecosystems. Particular attention is devoted to issues of group survival in difficult habitats and the environmental impact of preindustrial and recently Westernized cultures. 4.000 Credit Hours 4.000 Lecture hours 0.000 Lab hours 0.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate, Post Baccalaureate Schedule Types: Lecture Undergraduate Colleges College Sociology and Anthropology Department Course Attributes: Environmental Science, Globalism
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4.00 Credits
Ecotourism is often defined as travel to places of natural or ecological interest, while having minimum impact on the environment. In this course, we will exlpore and evaluate this concept of ecotourism through an anthropological perspective. First we will look at examples of ecotourism, and examine the myriad ways in which it affects cultures and environments. Readings, discussions, lectures and projects will be used to see how (or if) ecotourism changes destination areas and tourists themselves. 4.000 Credit Hours 3.000 Lecture hours 0.000 Lab hours 0.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate, Post Baccalaureate Schedule Types: Lecture Undergraduate Colleges College Sociology and Anthropology Department
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4.00 Credits
The course examines the political nature of television production in the United States today. Globalization, empire building, and warfare have made television appear as the most democratic medium, for entertainment and education. However, for many authors, particularly Noam Chomsky, television is the single most powerful element in constructing new forms of "democratic" oppression that are successful because their explicit entertainment quality hides aspects of coercive control and a "big brother" syndrome. The course will explore many of these ideas of domination and ressitence through the analysis of popular programs. 4.000 Credit Hours 3.000 Lecture hours 0.000 Lab hours 0.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate, Post Baccalaureate Schedule Types: Lecture Undergraduate Colleges College Sociology and Anthropology Department
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