ANTHRO 103      Introduction To Cultural Anthropology
An introduction to culture and the basic concepts of anthropology. Topics include kinship, language, and cultural change.
Credits: 3 hours
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ANTHRO 202      Social Organization
This course focuses on the principles of social organization that undergird all human societies: social groups; age and gender differences; the institutions of family, economy, religion and polity; power; community and other units of residence; and social differentiation based on such factors as wealth and/or prestige. The focus of analysis is on the maintenance of social order, social change, and integration of society. Crosslisted with SOCIOL 202R. Prerequisite: SOCIOL 101. Offered: Every semester.
Credits: hours
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ANTHRO 205      The Social Life of Things
This course examines the ways anthropologists have studied the connections between people and things. It explores how social relationships are created and changed through the use and exchange of objects, and how objects themselves take on particular meanings and histories in these processes. In questioning the relationship between material culture and human sociality, the course will expose students to a range of ethnographic and historical case studies, as well as introduce them to some core theoretical perspectives and debates within anthropology
Credits: 3 hours
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ANTHRO 207      Writing Culture: The Craft of Ethnography
This course will explore the contexts in which powerful social groups learn, talk, and write about less powerful groups. The course material will explore how the identities and biases of anthropologists condition how they perceive, analyze, and represent others. Students will compare changes in ethnographic methods, theories, and styles across time and geography.
Credits: hours
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ANTHRO 212      Global Health
This course will use the lens of critical medical anthropology to analyze the sources of poor health outcomes, health disparities, and the global impacts of health policy. Students will explore the connections between population health and other aspects of social life, such as power, inequality, war, and economics, exploring the ways in which globalization and the privatization of health creates conditions that facilitate disease.
Credits: hours
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ANTHRO 300      Special Topics In Anthropology
Credits: hours
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ANTHRO 302      Social Stratification
The distribution of power, privileges and prestige are examined in a historical and comparative perspective. The process whereby distribution systems develop, become institutionalized, and become transformed are analyzed.
Credits: 3 hours
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ANTHRO 303      Cluster Course: Terrorism, Civil War and Trauma
This interdisciplinary course examines the modern experience of terrorism and civil war in the light of art, film, history, literature, and philosophy. It explores a number of traumatic events, historic and contemporary, challenging us to think about such contemporary issues as violence and identity formation, civil rights and state-sponsored terrorism, pacifism and patriotism, resistance and collaboration, fundamentalism and fascism, neo-colonialism and anti-imperialism. Cross-listed with ENGLISH 300CN.
Credits: hours
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ANTHRO 305      Language and Culture
This course is designed to familiarize students with the basic objects, aims, and methods of linguistic anthropology. Students will acquire this familiarity by studying both theoretical and ethnographic articles that focus on some of the major areas of concern within the field including: the evolution of human language, linguistic particularity and universality, the relationship of language to thought, structuralism and semiotics, trope theory, language and emotion, sociolinguistics, the development of writing systems, and language conservation and change.
Credits: 3 hours
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ANTHRO 306      Culture, Emotion, and Identity
This course introduces students to some of the key theoretical perspectives and debates within the field of psychological anthropology. By drawing upon cross-cultural studies of emotion, personhood, sexuality, illness, and consciousness it seeks to understand some of the ways that culture and society influence human psychology and experience.
Credits: 3 hours
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ANTHRO 314      Anthropology of Gender
This class explores theories of the social construction of gender in cross-cultural contexts. It will also explore global issues of local and international politics, the economy, work and education as these relate to gender.
Credits: 3 hours
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ANTHRO 322      Race And Ethnic Relations
The nature, origin and dynamics of ethnic and race relations in the U. S. and other societies. Specific attention will be given to the historical and contemporary contexts of prejudice, discrimination and confrontation.
Credits: 3 hours
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ANTHRO 324      Diversity And You
This course will examine diversity from the perspectives of race, ethnicity, class and gender. Emphasis will be placed on the impact of racism, classism and sexism on interpersonal relationships and strategies to encourage diversity in schools, neighborhoods, and the work place. Students may also enroll in "directed research" in conjunction with his course.
Credits: 3 hours
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ANTHRO 327      Us Government's Indian Policies: Practices Of A Colonizing Nation
This class will convey information about the implementation of US Government policies, from treaty making, establishing reservations, removing, confronting tribes militarily, and abolishing reservations through allotment resulted in consequences detrimental to tribal welfare. The colonization process created ramifications and consequences that Indian people contend with to this day. This class will provide a historical overview of the consequences associated with political, social, and economic processes that divested Indian people of control over their lives and land they originally lived on.
Credits: 1 hours
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ANTHRO 328      Body and Society
Body and Society is an interdisciplinary and comparative approach to the study of the body as the subject and object of social processes. Interdisciplinary approaches to topics such as meaning, ritual, performance, and practice will provide a framework for classical as well as contemporary explorations of bodily representation and experiences across a variety of cultural contexts. Prerequisite: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Credits: 3 hours
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ANTHRO 329      The Imagery Of The American Indian In Film
This course will trace the imagery of the American Indian used by film makers through the years and how this has played a role in reinforcing certain inaccurate perceptions of American Indian cultural, social, and economic life. The course examines the sociological implications created by persistently showing misrepresented images of American Indians. The goal is to measure and compare the reality of American Indian life (values, traditions, and beliefs) with the images created by film makers from the early years of the 20th century to the present.
Credits: 1 hours
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ANTHRO 331      Urban Anthropology
A course designed to apply anthropological methods to the study of various urban environments. The approach to the subject is comparative, seeking to spell out those features of the urban setting which vary from culture to culture as well as those which are common to all.
Credits: 3 hours
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ANTHRO 339      American Indian Leaders: Past And Present
This course will examine the definition of leadership as it relates to American Indian issues. Consideration will be given to the nuances of leadership by examining the social, cultural, economic, and political situations that gave cause for particular individuals to assume roles of leadership. The course will compare and contrast the notions of leadership within American Indian ranks with those practiced by non-indian leaders. It will trace the evolving nature of leadership within tribal nations and American Indian communitites from past to present, as well as looking at indian leadership roles in time of war and peace. Lives of the major characters of American Indian historical record will be reviewed, such as Geronimo, Crazy horse, Sitting Bull, Osceola, Tecumseh, Pontiac, Black Hawk, Quannah Parker, and Captain Jack. Alsoc cross listed as SOCIOL 326
Credits: 1 hours
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ANTHRO 341      The Anthropology Of Economic Institutions
Examines in a comparative perspective the social, cultural and political framework of economic activities. Emphasis is placed on socioeconomic systems and the contradictions they generate. Crosslisted with SOCIOL 341R.
Credits: hours
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ANTHRO 343      Societies And Cultures Of Latin America
A survey of emerging cultures and societies in Latin America; pre-history and geography; the Mayan, the Aztec and Incan civilizations; contemporary Indian, peasant and urban subcultures; the impact of forces such as migration, urbanization, peasant mobilization, and agrarian reform.
Credits: 3 hours
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