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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Fall (4 credits), Spring (4 credits). Introduction to the anthropological perspective in viewing personal, social, and cultural events in human life. Attention given to evolutionary and comparative ways of describing, analyzing, and interpreting ways of life from a cross-cultural perspective.
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4.00 Credits
Fall (4 credits). An overview of human cultural evolution, from the earliest human ancestors through the diverse forms of social organization of recent human groups. Exploration of the causes of cultural change and lessons to be learned from the past about the nature of the human species and human society. Offered every year. NU and EV only.
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3.00 Credits
Fall (2-4), Spring (2-4), May Term (2-3). Topics of current interest such as collective behavior, religion and social conflicts, sociology of medicine, sociology of disabilities, or sociology of sport. Prerequisite: permission is required for the 400-level course. The 200 level and above may be repeated for degree credit given a different topic. Offered as needed.
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4.00 Credits
Fall (4 credits), Spring (4 credits), May Term (3 credits). Topics of current interest such as gender and feminist studies, archaeological frauds, medical anthropology, death and dying, and regional and social issues pertaining to the U.S., Asia, and the Middle East. Prerequisite: permission required for the 400-level course. The 200 level and above may be repeated for degree credit given a different topic. Offered as needed.
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4.00 Credits
Fall (4 credits) or Spring (4 credits). Introduction to the role of theory and method in Sociology and Anthropology. Students learn fundamental theoretical concepts and methodological skills and how to integrate theory and method in the research process. Prerequisite: SOAN 100, 102, or 104. NU and EV only.
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4.00 Credits
Fall (4 credits) or May Term (3 credits). Examination of social issues currently making an impact on U.S. society. Focus on social structures and institutions that affect these concerns, as well as their individual consequences. NU and EV only. Offered as needed.
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4.00 Credits
Fall (4 credits) or May Term (3 credits). Introduction to the analysis of popular culture: the ways in which people use, abuse, and subvert the cultural products of industrial society to create their own meanings and messages; evading and manipulating mass culture's attempts to dominate and homogenize. Offered as needed.
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4.00 Credits
Fall (4 credits). Investigation of the impact of corporations in the context of technological change and global economic restructuring. Exploration of the changing organization of work and industry, as well as the effects of corporate strategies on social welfare, community, and family life. Offered as needed.
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4.00 Credits
Fall (4 credits), Spring (4 credits). Examines the ways in which anthropological studies can be useful in the development and critique of public and foreign policy. Crosscultural studies will challenge assumptions of our goals for society and the means we choose to get there and demonstrate how policy debates reflect cultural ideas and ideals. Offered in alternate years. NU only.
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4.00 Credits
Fall (4 credits), Spring (4 credits). Consideration of what civilization is, how it emerged, and why. Case studies of early civilizations of the Old and New Worlds, including Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Indus Valley, Mesoamerica, and Peru. Critical analysis of theories explaining the development of social complexity. Offered as needed. NU and EV only.
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