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ANTHRO 103
Introduction To Cultural Anthropology
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An introduction to culture and the basic concepts of anthropology. Topics include kinship, language, and cultural change.
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Credits: 3 hours
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ANTHRO 205
The Social Life of Things
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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
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Credits: 3 hours
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ANTHRO 207
Writing Culture: The Craft of Ethnography
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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.
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ANTHRO 212
Global Health
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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.
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ANTHRO 300AF
Special Topics In Anthropology
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Credits: 1-3 hours
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ANTHRO 300CL
Cluster Course: Introduction To Women's Studies
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Cluster Course: Introduction To Women's Studies
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Credits: 3 hours
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ANTHRO 300CS
Spec Topics Anthropology
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Each time this course is offered, a different area of anthropology, to be announced, will be examined.
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Credits: 1-3 hours
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ANTHRO 300MR
Special Topics In Anthropology
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Credits: 1-3 hours
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ANTHRO 300RE
Special Topics In Anthropology
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Credits: 1-3 hours
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ANTHRO 300RV
Special Topics In Anthropology
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Special Topics In Anthropology
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Credits: 1-3 hours
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ANTHRO 300SR
Special Topics in Anthropology
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Special Topics in Anthropology
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Credits: 1-3 hours
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ANTHRO 300YS
Special Topics In Anthropology
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Credits: 1-3 hours
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ANTHRO 302
Social Stratification
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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.
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Credits: 3 hours
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ANTHRO 303CN
Cluster Course: Terrorism, Civil War and Trauma
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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.
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Credits: 3 hours
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ANTHRO 305
Language and Culture
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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.
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Credits: 3 hours
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ANTHRO 306
Culture, Emotion, and Identity
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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.
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Credits: 3 hours
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ANTHRO 314
Anthropology of Gender
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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.
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Credits: 3 hours
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ANTHRO 322
Race And Ethnic Relations
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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.
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Credits: 3 hours
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ANTHRO 324
Diversity And You
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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.
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Credits: 3 hours
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ANTHRO 327
Us Government's Indian Policies: Practices Of A Colonizing Nation
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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.
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Credits: 1 hours
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