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Fall 2013 Class Schedule - updated June 17, 2013 at 05:56 pm

Number/Section  Title
Days Time Room Instructor
 
ANTH 111-01  Cultural Anthropology
MWF 02:20 pm-03:20 pm CARN 06A Olga Gonzalez
 
ANTH 111-02  Cultural Anthropology
MWF 10:50 am-11:50 am CARN 06A Dianna Shandy
 
ANTH 112-01  Archaeology and Human Origins
MWF 01:10 pm-02:10 pm CARN 06B Scott Legge
 
ANTH 194-01  Evolutionary Anthropology: Facts, Fantasies and Frauds
MWF 09:40 am-10:40 am CARN 06B Scott Legge
*First Year Course Only* Evolutionary anthropology is not a topic that generally comes to mind when one thinks about the greatest mysteries or debates in science. However, it could be argued that many themes of evolutionary anthropology are far more widespread than the more common scientific questions like “How did the universe form?” or “Can the laws of physics be unified?” For example, the concept of a hairy upright walking humanlike ape can be found in cultures spanning the globe from the Pacific Northwest in North America to the Tibetan Plateau. Nothing grabs international media headlines like a Bigfoot sighting. The history of debated discoveries in evolutionary anthropology goes back many years, and this class will examine some of the most widespread and contentious of them, as well as some of the more obscure.
ANTH 230-01  Ethnographic Interviewing
MWF 09:40 am-10:40 am CARN 05 Dianna Shandy
*First day attendance required; limited to declared and intended Anthropology majors*
ANTH 239-01  Medical Anthropology
TR 01:20 pm-02:50 pm CARN 06A Ron Barrett
 
ANTH 240-01  Human Osteology and Paleopathology
TR 03:00 pm-04:30 pm CARN 06B Scott Legge
 
ANTH 255-01  Peoples and Cultures of Latin America
M 07:00 pm-10:00 pm CARN 05 Olga Gonzalez
*Cross-listed with LATI 255-01*
ANTH 294-01  Anthropology through Science Fiction
MWF 10:50 am-11:50 am CARN 05 Arjun Guneratne
Science fiction offers us a way to examine the human condition through the creation of imaginative and imaginary scenarios for human action. Science fiction is imaginative anthropology: it is a way to ask "what if" questions, explore alternative possibilities and stand our assumptions on their heads without being constrained by the realism of traditional ethnographic writing. The aim of this course is both to examine anthropological concepts and themes through the medium of science fiction, as well as to read some good science fiction through the lens of anthropology. A number of science fiction novels and short stories relevant to anthropological themes (such as what it means to be human, the nature of society, the role of the anthropologist, the question of ethics in anthropological research and in inter-cultural contact) will be assigned and supplemented by conventional anthropological writings and films. The course counts for the major in anthropology. Anthropology 111, Cultural Anthropology, or Anthropology 101, General Anthropology, is required.
ANTH 294-02  Representing the World As It Is: Histories and Theories of Ethnographic Film
M 07:00 pm-10:00 pm CARN 404 Zeynep Gursel
*Cross-listed with INTL 294-01 and MCST 294-01*
ANTH 362-01  Culture and Globalization
W 07:00 pm-10:00 pm CARN 05 Dianna Shandy
*Cross-listed with INTL 362-01*
ANTH 363-01  Anthropology of Development
MWF 02:20 pm-03:20 pm CARN 05 Arjun Guneratne
 
ANTH 405-01  Ethnomusicology
TR 03:00 pm-04:30 pm MUSIC 228 Chuen-Fung Wong
*Cross-listed with MUSI 405-01*
ANTH 487-01  Theory in Anthropology
TR 09:40 am-11:10 am CARN 05 Ron Barrett
 

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Spring 2014 Class Schedule - updated June 17, 2013 at 05:56 pm

Number/Section  Title
Days Time Room Instructor
 
ANTH 101-01  General Anthropology
MWF 10:50 am-11:50 am CARN 06A Scott Legge
 
ANTH 101-02  General Anthropology
MWF 01:10 pm-02:10 pm CARN 06A Ron Barrett
 
ANTH 123-01  Introduction to Archaeology
MWF 03:30 pm-04:30 pm MAIN 001 STAFF
*Cross-listed with CLAS 123-01*
ANTH 230-01  Ethnographic Interviewing
MWF 10:50 am-11:50 am CARN 05 Arjun Guneratne
*First Day attendance required*
ANTH 254-01  Peoples and Cultures of Native America
MWF 01:10 pm-02:10 pm CARN 05 Diana Dean
*Cross-listed with AMST 254-01*
ANTH 256-01  Peoples and Cultures of South Asia
M 07:00 pm-10:00 pm CARN 05 Ron Barrett
*Cross-listed with ASIA 256-01*
ANTH 258-01  Peoples and Cultures of Africa
MWF 09:40 am-10:40 am CARN 06A Sonia Patten
 
ANTH 381-01  Emerging Infectious Diseases
TR 03:00 pm-04:30 pm CARN 05 Ron Barrett
 
ANTH 394-01  Writing Human Rights
TR 09:40 am-11:10 am CARN 05 James Dawes
*Cross-listed with ENGL 394-03; first day attendance required; signature of instructor required* This writing intensive seminar will explore the relationship between human rights and life narratives. Life stories are of increasing importance across a range of academic disciplines, but nowhere more so than in the interdisciplinary work of human rights. Human rights advocacy has always relied upon the use of peoples' stories—to give voice to those cruelly silenced by violence, to generate sympathy in global bystanders, to shame perpetrator governments. The special challenges of this sort of storytelling have recently become topics of special attention in academic scholarship. Many of the questions are ethical: How can you move audiences without being sensational? How can you speak for others without displacing them? How can you put incommunicable trauma into words without somehow altering the truth of it? This interdisciplinary course, co-taught by faculty in Anthropology and English, will train students in the methods and ethics of life history interviewing and the craft of narrative writing. Priority for registration will be given to students who can count the course for one or more of the following: English, Anthropology, Human Rights and Humanitarianism. We also aim to achieve a mix of sophomores, juniors, and seniors in the course.
ANTH 394-01  Writing Human Rights
TR 09:40 am-11:10 am CARN 05 Dianna Shandy
*Cross-listed with ENGL 394-03; first day attendance required; signature of instructor required* This writing intensive seminar will explore the relationship between human rights and life narratives. Life stories are of increasing importance across a range of academic disciplines, but nowhere more so than in the interdisciplinary work of human rights. Human rights advocacy has always relied upon the use of peoples' stories—to give voice to those cruelly silenced by violence, to generate sympathy in global bystanders, to shame perpetrator governments. The special challenges of this sort of storytelling have recently become topics of special attention in academic scholarship. Many of the questions are ethical: How can you move audiences without being sensational? How can you speak for others without displacing them? How can you put incommunicable trauma into words without somehow altering the truth of it? This interdisciplinary course, co-taught by faculty in Anthropology and English, will train students in the methods and ethics of life history interviewing and the craft of narrative writing. Priority for registration will be given to students who can count the course for one or more of the following: English, Anthropology, Human Rights and Humanitarianism. We also aim to achieve a mix of sophomores, juniors, and seniors in the course.
ANTH 490-01  Senior Seminar
TR 01:20 pm-02:50 pm CARN 05 Dianna Shandy
 
ANTH 490-02  Senior Seminar
TR 01:20 pm-02:50 pm CARN 06A Arjun Guneratne
 

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