ANTH 101-01 30015 |
General Anthropology |
Days: M W F
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Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am
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Room: CARN 06A
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Instructor: Ron Barrett
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This course is an introduction to the discipline of anthropology as a whole. It presents students with a theoretical grounding in the four major subfields: archaeology, biological anthropology, cultural anthropology, and linguistics. In this class the emphasis is on the holistic nature of the discipline. Students will be challenged with some of the countless links between the systems of biology and culture. They will explore key questions about human diversity in the past, present, and future. Prerequisite(s): Not open to students who've taken ANTH 111.
General Education Requirements:
Internationalism
Distribution Requirements:
Social science
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ANTH 111-01 30014 |
Cultural Anthropology |
Days: M W F
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Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am
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Room: CARN 06A
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Instructor: Hilary Chart
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The cultural perspective on human behavior including case studies, often illustrated by ethnographic films and slides, of non-Western and American cultures. May include some field interviewing. Includes the cross cultural treatment of economic, legal, political, social and religious institutions and a survey of major approaches to the explanation of cultural variety and human social organization. Prerequisite(s): Not open to students who've taken ANTH 101.
General Education Requirements:
Writing WP
Internationalism OR U.S. Identities and Differences
Distribution Requirements:
Social science
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ANTH 111-02 31192 |
Cultural Anthropology |
Days: M W F
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Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm
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Room: CARN 06A
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Instructor: Hilary Chart
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The cultural perspective on human behavior including case studies, often illustrated by ethnographic films and slides, of non-Western and American cultures. May include some field interviewing. Includes the cross cultural treatment of economic, legal, political, social and religious institutions and a survey of major approaches to the explanation of cultural variety and human social organization. Prerequisite(s): Not open to students who've taken ANTH 101.
General Education Requirements:
Writing WP
Internationalism OR U.S. Identities and Differences
Distribution Requirements:
Social science
Course Materials
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ANTH 115-01 30956 |
Biological Anthropology |
Days: T R
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Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am
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Room: CARN 06B
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Instructor: Jane Holmstrom
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This class is a broad survey covering topics such as genetics, evolutionary mechanisms, adaptation, primate studies, the human fossil record, and human variation. All of these areas will be placed within the framework of the interaction of humans within their environment. The course is divided into three sections: human genetics, human ecology and primatology, human evolution and adaptation.
General Education Requirements:
Distribution Requirements:
Natural science and mathematics
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ANTH 223-01 30168 |
Introduction to Archaeology |
Days: T R
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Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am
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Room: THEATR 200
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Instructor: Andrew Overman
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*Cross-listed with CLAS 223-01*
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This course introduces students to archaeology, the study of the material remains of human culture. Students will explore the history of the discipline and profession, its basic methods and theories, and the political and ethical dimensions of modern archaeological practice. Students learn to examine and interpret evidence using specific examples, from artifacts to sites to regions.
General Education Requirements:
Distribution Requirements:
Humanities
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ANTH 232-01 30802 |
Field Methods and Research Design |
Days: M W F
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Time: 03:30 pm-04:30 pm
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Room: CARN 204
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Instructor: Ron Barrett
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This course combines civic engagement with the fundamentals of ethnographic research needed for successful completion of a one to two-month field-based project. Learning modules will include: a) the ethics of social science research and human subjects review; b) research design and proposal; c) observation methods and field notes; d) interview methods and transcription; and e) qualitative data analysis. All students will conduct a joint research project in partnership with local community members to address a relevant social problem. Prerequisite(s): ANTH 101 or ANTH 111.
General Education Requirements:
Writing WA
Distribution Requirements:
Social science
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ANTH 241-01 30017 |
Anthropology of Death and Dying |
Days: W
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Time: 07:00 pm-10:00 pm
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Room: CARN 304
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Instructor: Ron Barrett
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*Permission of instructor required; first day attendance required*
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This course examines the dying process and the ways that humans beings come to terms with their mortality in different societies. We will learn how people die in major illnesses and critically analyze controversial issues regarding brain death, suicide, and euthanasia. We will survey funerary traditions from a variety of cultures and compare the social, spiritual, and psychological roles that these rituals play for both the living and the dying. We will examine cultural attitudes towards death; and how the denial and awareness of human mortality can shape social practices and institutions. Finally, we will consider issues regarding the quality of life, the opportunities and challenges of caregiving, and hospice traditions around the world. Prerequisite(s): ANTH 101 or ANTH 111.
General Education Requirements:
Distribution Requirements:
Social science
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ANTH 251-01 30957 |
Politics of Memory in Latin America |
Days: T R
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Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm
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Room: THEATR 101
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Instructor: Olga González
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This course examines and critically analyzes various approaches to the study of how different individuals and communities in particular historical and cultural scenarios in contemporary Latin America create meanings about their past experience with political violence. The course addresses questions related to the tension between remembering and forgetting, the presence of conflicting memories and truths and how these are negotiated or not through distinct forms of representation. The cultural analysis of different means of representation: human rights and truth commissions’ reports, testimonials, film, art and memorials will be the basis for class discussions on different notions of truth and different forms of truth-telling. A close examination of these forms of representation will reveal the extent to which they can conflict with each other while at the same time feed on each other, creating “effects of truth” and leaving room for secrecy as a mode of truth-telling. Finally, the course will also compel students to think about what consequences the politics of memory in postwar Latin America. The content and discussion in this course will necessarily engage with historical contexts and personal testimonies of violence that include arbitrary arrest and detention, torture, sexual violence, genocide, massacres, extrajudicial execution and disappearances. Much of the material will be emotionally and intellectually challenging to engage with. We will do our best to flag especially graphic or intense content that discusses or represents violence and will do our best to make this classroom a space where we can engage bravely, empathetically and thoughtfully with difficult content every week.
General Education Requirements:
Distribution Requirements:
Humanities
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ANTH 253-01 30445 |
Comparative Muslim Cultures |
Days: T R
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Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm
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Room: CARN 404
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Instructor: Jenna Rice Rahaim
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*Cross-listed with INTL 253-01 and RELI 294-03*
Details
This course examines the Qur'an and hadith, and other authoritative texts that ground Islamic jurisprudence, and explores the diverse ways in which Muslims have understood and interpreted these teachings in locations across the world (i.e. Indonesia, the Middle East, South Asia, Europe and the United States) and at various points in history.
General Education Requirements:
Writing WP
Internationalism OR U.S. Identities and Differences
Distribution Requirements:
Social science
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ANTH 294-03 30020 |
Decolonizing Global Perspectives |
Days: T R
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Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am
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Room: CARN 304
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Instructor: Busse-Cárdenas, González
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*Cross-listed with SOCI 294-01*
Details
Varies by semester. Consult the department or class schedule for current listing.
General Education Requirements:
Distribution Requirements:
Social science
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ANTH 294-05 30803 |
Things with Feathers: Birds in Science, Culture and Myth |
Days: M W
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Time: 08:00 am-09:30 am
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Room: CARN 06B
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Instructor: Arjun Guneratne
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Birds are among the most visible and colorful members of the natural world. Across societies and over time, that fact has generated considerable human engagement with and awareness of birds, which have been utilized for both utilitarian and symbolic purposes. This course introduces you to the knowledge that different cultures have of birds, and to their formal scientific study in modern times. The topics we will examine include the place of birds in myth and religion; indigenous ways to classify birds; how local traditions relating to birds can serve as models for conservation; the relationship of local and traditional knowledge to the development of modern ornithology; the colonial roots of ornithology; and the part played by amateur birders and other non-professionals in the emergence of ornithology as a science. The course includes a number of field trips, to birding sites to develop our own engagement with birds as wild things, and to museum collections, to understand the scientific value of birds as dead things.
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Distribution Requirements:
Social science
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ANTH 294-06 30808 |
Digital Cultural Heritage |
Days: M W F
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Time: 12:00 pm-01:00 pm
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Room: CARN 304
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Instructor: Aisling Quigley
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*Cross-listed with MCST 294-02*
Details
Cultural heritage sites, including libraries, archives and museums, have existed in some shape or form for a very long time. Computers, on the other hand, have only been a part of these institutions for about sixty years. Although technologies offer more efficient and cost-effective ways to store and disseminate information and promise greater accessibility to materials, that doesn’t necessarily mean that they successfully facilitate the missions of these cultural heritage sites or the needs of their visitors. Why is this the case? Do digital technologies truly have the potential to decentralize and democratize these spaces? What can they tell us about what we value, as a culture? In this interdisciplinary course, we will reflect on the impact of digital technologies on cultural heritage sites, and museums in particular, starting in the 1960s and continuing through the present, including discussion of how museums responded to the COVID-19 pandemic. Among other things, students will learn how to collect, curate, and digitize objects, write and design an object label, and contribute to an online exhibition. No prerequisites.
General Education Requirements:
Distribution Requirements:
Social science
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ANTH 294-07 30941 |
From Empathy to Action: Applied Anthropology and Human Centered Design for Social Innovation |
Days: W
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Time: 07:00 pm-10:00 pm
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Room: LIBR 250
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Instructor: Allan Martinez Venegas
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Details
Varies by semester. Consult the department or class schedule for current listing.
General Education Requirements:
Distribution Requirements:
Social science
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ANTH 394-01 30963 |
Culture, Law and Politics |
Days: T R
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Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am
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Room: CARN 06A
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Instructor: Arjun Guneratne
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What are the different types of political systems? How did the state evolve? What is the relationship between the structure of political systems and the processes of political action? Are societies lacking political authority vested in an individual or an institution necessarily anarchic? How do different types of political systems maintain social order and resolve disputes? What issues of law and justice arise in plural (multicultural) societies, where cultural practices offensive to some may be normative to others? These are some of the questions that confront the twinned sub-disciplines of political and legal anthropology that we will explore in this course. While political anthropology is the study of how power is distributed and wielded in a society, the anthropology of law concerns itself with the way social order is maintained and how “law” — as distinct from custom — is formulated and applied. This course examines the meaning of law and politics in cross-cultural perspective. The first half of the course examines how anthropologists have approached the study of politics by focusing on how people seek to manage others through persuasion, force, control over resources and by whatever other means are culturally available to them. In the second half of the course, we examine how people in different places at different times have understood the concept of law, how their understanding has been concretely manifested in the formulation of rules governing social relations and how those rules have been enforced. We will use a mock court, where the class role plays the trial of a Comanche medicine woman in state court for practicing medicine without a license (under an Oklahoma statute), to understand the challenges of applying the law in a culturally complex society.
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ANTH 394-02 30657 |
Ritual |
Days: T R
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Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm
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Room: MAIN 001
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Instructor: Erik Davis
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*First day attendance required; cross-listed with RELI 311-01*
Details
The word "ritual" is used in many contexts to refer to types of practice that are considered centrally important, as well as formalistic and repetitive. This seminar-style course concentrates on the concept of ritual as a central component of social practice, within and without religious groupings. Focusing on developing the concept of ritual, we will focus on ritual across traditions. This requires students to 'work with' concepts - forming a conception of what they mean by ritual, and be willing to change that conception when faced with contradictory evidence.
General Education Requirements:
Writing WA
Distribution Requirements:
Humanities
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ANTH 394-03 30805 |
Body and Religion in the Middle Ages |
Days: M
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Time: 07:00 pm-10:00 pm
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Room: CARN 06B
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Instructor: Jane Holmstrom
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Details
Varies by semester. Consult the department or class schedule for current listing.
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ANTH 490-01 30026 |
Senior Seminar |
Days: M W F
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Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am
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Room: THEATR 101
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Instructor: Olga González
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*First day attendance required*
Details
The senior seminar is for Anthropology majors who are working on their senior capstone project and is designed to help students develop that project for presentation. The seminar will also include reading of Anthropological works, guest speakers and discussion of current controversies in the discipline. Prerequisite(s): ANTH 111 or ANTH 101, and either ANTH 387 or ANTH 487.
General Education Requirements:
Distribution Requirements:
Social science
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