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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Fall (4 credits), Spring (4 credits), or May Term (3 credits). Explores consumption as a central dimension of capitalist society that shapes and is shaped by the actions of consumers and has both constraining and enabling qualities. Examines links between consumption in the context of globalization. Prerequisite: SOAN 100, 102, and one 200-level SOAN course. Offered as needed. NU and EV only.
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4.00 Credits
Fall (4 credits) or Spring (4 credits). Investigation of the social and political connections between modernization and the emerging politics of ethnicity on a worldwide scale. Examination of current examples of ethnic conflict and exploration of theoretical approaches to race, ethnicity, nationality, and the modernization process. Review of ethnic and anti-ethnic political movements in the United States and worldwide. Prerequisite: SOAN 100, 102 or permission. Offered as needed.
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4.00 Credits
Fall (4 credits), Spring (4 credits). Examines childhood and youth as phases of social life actively constructed by young people and adults in context of structural inequalities of age, race, class, gender, and sexuality. Studies scholarly, popular cultural, and literary representations of the lives and experiences of children and youth. Prerequisites: SOAN 100, 102 and one 200- level SOAN course, or permission. Offered as needed. NU and EV only.
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4.00 Credits
Fall (4 credits), Spring (4 credits), or May Term (3 credits). Globalization as an economic, political, social, and cultural process, developing in the historical context of colonialism and global power relations. Exploration of changing patterns of work, migration, and urbanization arising with the globalization of economic production; as well as the antiglobalization movement and other forms of resistance to globalization. Prerequisite: SOAN 100, 102, or permission. Offered as needed.
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4.00 Credits
Fall (4 credits). Theoretical and substantive analysis of collective action and social movements in the late Twentieth Century. Exploration of how, why, and when individuals come together to cause or prevent social change. Focus on how social movements gain public space and what happens when they do, both in the United States and around the world. Prerequisite: SOAN 100 or 102, or permission. Offered as needed.
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4.00 Credits
Fall (4 credits) or Spring (4 credits). Gender and sexuality in various cultural areas around the world, and consideration of the significance and implications of gender and sexuality in the social life of these people, while introducing current theoretical issues in the cross-cultural study of gender and sexuality. Prerequisites: SOAN 100, SOAN 102, or WMST 120, or permission. Offered as needed.
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3.00 Credits
Spring (2-4) or May Term (1-3). Intensive study of the political and economic structure of communities and grassroots organizations for social change. Working with community members, students participate in and analyze ongoing community development projects. Prerequisites: SOAN 100 or 102, and junior or senior standing. Offered as needed.
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4.00 Credits
Fall (4 credits). Based on anthropological texts, films, and performed live experiences, students take a look at who, when, where, how, and why people dance in order to gain an understanding of the meanings of dance within a society. Specific topics include revolutionary politics and dance, dance as embodied knowledge, and exotic dance. Prerequisites: SOAN 102 or permission. Offered as needed. NU and EV only.
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4.00 Credits
Spring (4 credits). Intensive training in archaeological field methods through participation in ongoing field research. Includes archaeological survey and/or excavation, mapping, artifact recording, and analysis. Prerequisites: SOAN 104, 251, 255, or permission. Offered as needed.
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4.00 Credits
Spring (4 credits). Discussion of political issues involved in the practice of archaeology. Topics include the relationship between archaeologists and indigenous peoples, looting and the antiquities market, and museum ethics. Ideas under consideration are who owns the past and who has the right to write history. Offered in alternate years. NU and EV only.
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