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3.00 Credits
A presentation of theory and data related to the development and characteristic features of civilization. Such crucial issues as the domestication of plants and animals, the appearance of stratified societies, the emergence of urban life, the emergence of literacy and its implications for thought, and the emergence of the state will be addressed from a comparative perspective. The course takes a global approach to these topics, covering materials from Southwest Asia, Africa, the Mediterranean, and North, Central, and South America. Satisfies upper-division GE, category D2 (World History and Civilization). Prerequisites: upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Sonoma State University 2006-2008 Catalog Anthropology Page 57
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4.00 Credits
Intensive in-class discussions of ethnographies from several different cultures. Discussions will address key issues in cultural analysis, cross-cultural comparison, and a holistic examination of culture. Students are encouraged to think critically and interpretively about the organization and practices of the cultures under review. Prerequisites: ANTH 203 or SOCI 201, upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
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4.00 Credits
Using the methods of anthropology, this course will focus on the study of environmental issues. The course will cover the history of anthropological approaches to the environment. Selected topics such as human ecology, historical ecology, natural resource management, environmental justice, and environmentalism will be announced in the semester schedule. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisites: upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
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4.00 Credits
This course will explore anthropological perspectives on global issues. The course will include a brief introduction to the theoretical frameworks developed in the discipline for studying issues that impact humanity on a global scale. Possible topics may include: globalization, global capitalism, global climate change, international development, population movements such as international migration and diasporas, global impacts of diseases such as HIV/AIDS and SARS. Topics will vary with each offering; may be repeated for credit with consent of instructor. Prerequisites: upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
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4.00 Credits
Examines the nature of tourism as a social and economic force. Different forms of tourism (eco, ethnic, heritage, mass, and elite) will be assessed both in terms of impacts on host cultures and their environments, as well as tourists themselves. Case studies illustrate the positive and negative impacts of tourism as an agent of culture change. Prerequisites: upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
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4.00 Credits
In-depth examination of a specific topic within sociocultural anthropology. Topics vary with each offering and might include: medical anthropology, economic anthropology, political anthropology or issues such as homelessness, social capital, or community. May be repeated for credit if topics vary. Prerequisites: ANTH 203 or ANTH 340 and upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
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4.00 Credits
This course ponders several questions central to the study of healing, wellness, and disease in one’s own and other cultures. We explore what is meant by illness, explanatory models of disease, cross-cultural approaches to illness and healing, and how caregivers and care receivers often have different understandings and expectations of what disease and healing mean. We also explore current issues relating to health and illness, such as the influences of gender, globalization, and ethnicity in receiving and giving care, and current disease topics. Prerequisites: ANTH 203 and upper-division standing or consent of the instructor.
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4.00 Credits
Severely ill individuals often remake a sense of their lives and their selves through the stories, or narratives, they tell about the disease. These stories, in turn, reveal key metaphors about how a culture thinks about bodies, diseases, and healing. By using selected narratives, we obtain a glimpse into how individuals experience threatening diseases, and better grasp how metaphors of shame, mind/body duality, and healing shape disease experiences in several cultures. Prerequisites: ANTH 203 and upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
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4.00 Credits
The course focuses on topics that help us gain new insights into how bodies are constructed cross-culturally and what these constructions reveal about societies. Topics include embodiment theory, or how social disorder is manifest in individual bodies; how gender meanings and categories vary within and between cultures; and how current reproductive and other medical technologies reveal Euro-Western ideologies. Topics may vary. Prerequisites: ANTH 203 and upper division standing or consent of instructor.
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4.00 Credits
A survey of basic issues concerning language as a part of human behavior; the symbolic nature of human communication; language as an interpretive model for culture; the social nature of language; the psychobiological bases of language and its acquisition; human and nonhuman communicative behavior; verbal and nonverbal communication. Prerequisite: ANTH 203 and upper-division standing, or consent of instructor.
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