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4.00 Credits
(This course is conjoined with ANTH 242.) This course will examine the overarching legacies of colonialism, the persistence of indigenous peoples and cultures, the importance of class and land reform, the effects of neoliberalism, and citizens’ efforts to promote social change in contemporary democracies. Undergraduates will be evaluated on the basis of a midterm and final; graduates will do additional reading and will write a twenty-page research paper. Prerequisites: undergraduates: upper-division standing; graduates: graduate standing. (Formerly known as ANRG 142.) Credit not allowed for both ANRG 142 and ANSC 142.
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4.00 Credits
Why is mental health a global concern? This anthropological course reviews globalization, culture, and mental health. We examine issues of social suffering, stigma, and economic burden associated with mental illness, gender inequality, political violence, "global security," pharmaceutical and illegal drugs. Prerequisites: upper-division standing.
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4.00 Credits
Examines physical and mental health sequaelae of internal and transnational movement of individuals and populations due to warfare, political violence, natural disaster, religious persecution, poverty and struggle for economic survival, and social suffering of communities abandoned by migrants and refugees. Prerequisites: upper-division standing.
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4.00 Credits
This course addresses: 1) Diversity among traditional Native American cultures with respect to social organization, religion, environmental adaptation, subsistence, and reaction to colonial conquest and domination; and, 2) Contemporary social issues including tribal sovereignty, religious freedom, health, education, gambling, and repatriation of artifacts/remains. Prerequisites: upper-division standing.
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4.00 Credits
Introduction to global health from the perspective of medical anthropology on disease and illness, cultural conceptions of health, doctor-patient interaction, illness experience, medical science and technology, mental health, infectious disease, and health-care inequalities by ethnicity, gender, and socioeconomic status. Prerequisites: upper-division standing.
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4.00 Credits
This course examines gender and mental health by considering social, cultural, and biological explanations for problems such as depression, trauma, anxiety, drugs/alcohol use. Cross-cultural similarities and differences of gender are considered with respect to etiology, epidemiology, symptomatology, treatment, and recovery. Prerequisites: upper-division standing.
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4.00 Credits
Course examines theories concerning the relation of nature and culture. Particular attention is paid to explanations of differing ways cultures conceptualize nature. Along with examples from non-Western societies, the course examines the Western environmental ideas embedded in contemporary environmentalism. Prerequisites: upper-division standing. (Formerly known as ANGN 160.) Credit not allowed for both ANGN 160 and ANSC 160.
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4.00 Credits
With special attention to the relationship between theory and data, this course deals with the psychoanalytic approaches to the study of religion through a close examination of key ethnographic and historical studies of religious systems and experience. Prerequisites: upper-division standing. (Formerly known as ANGN 111.) Credit not allowed for both ANGN 111 and ANSC 161.
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4.00 Credits
This course examines the use of language difference in negotiating identity in bilingual and bidialectal communities, and in structuring interethnic relations. It addresses social tensions around language variation and the social significance of language choices in several societies. Prerequisites: upper-division standing. (Formerly known as ANGN 112.) Credit not allowed for both ANGN 112 and ANSC 162.
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4.00 Credits
(Previously titled Anthropology of Education.) The ways in which language and culture influence educational goals and processes. Cultural and sociolinguistic explanations of school successes and failures are examined. Prerequisites: upper-division standing. (Formerly known as ANGN 117.) Credit not allowed for both ANGN 117 and ANSC 163.
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