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ANTH 100 Introduction to Anthropology (5) I&S
Introduction to the subfields of archaeology, biocultural anthropology, and sociocultural anthropology through the examination of selected problems in human physical, cultural, and social evolution. Not recommended for students who have had other courses in anthropology, archaeology, or biocultural anthropology. May not be counted toward the 55 credits required for the major in anthropology. Offered: AWSp.
Instructor Course Description:
E. Floyd Aranyosi
James W Green
ANTH 101 Exploring Sociocultural Anthropology (5) I&S Chapman, Hoffman, Lowe, Taylor
Introduces perspectives from sociocultural anthropology on the diversity and the dynamics of collective human life. Examines how individual lives are shaped by broader social and cultural contexts, how people make meaning, and how power relations work. Introduces ethnography as a method for documenting and understanding social and cultural life. Offered: AWSp.
Instructor Course Description:
Janelle S Taylor
ANTH 150 Culture and Rights: Exploring the Meaning and Practice of Human Rights (5) I&S
Examines social justice issues with the aim of obtaining deeper understanding of human rights. Analyzes historical and theoretical foundations and introduces international and regional institutions designed to implement and enforce human rights. Case studies in sovereignty, war crimes, ethnic cleansing, genocide, torture, truth commissions, and forgiveness.
ANTH 202 Principles of Sociocultural Anthropology (5) I&S
Comparison of lifeways of various non-Western and Western peoples. Introduction to basic theories and methods used in the field.
Instructor Course Description:
Stephen C. Brown
ANTH 203 Introduction to Anthropological Linguistics (5) I&S/VLPA
Linguistic methods and theories used within anthropology. Basic structural features of language; human language and animal communication compared; evidence for the innate nature of language. Language and culture: linguistic relativism, ethnography of communication, sociolinguistics. Language and nationalism, language politics in the U.S. and elsewhere. Offered: jointly with LING 203.
Instructor Course Description:
Akesha L. Baron
Laada M. Bilaniuk
Eugene S Hunn
Judith M.S. Pine
ANTH 204 Reading Ethnography (5) I&S
Introduction to the descriptive and analytic literature of cultural anthropology. Extended examination of representative accounts of the lifeway of peoples from selected areas of the world with an emphasis on methods of observation and analysis.
Instructor Course Description:
Carol Z Jolles
Judith M.S. Pine
Rebecca M Lemov
ANTH 206 The Cultural Animal (5) I&S/NW
Examination of the interaction between biology and culture in shaping human social behavior. Basic principles of natural selection, gene-environment interaction, cultural transmission, learning, and cultural evolution; application of these to various topics, including gender, violence, politics, kinship, and religion.
Instructor Course Description:
Eugene S Hunn
ANTH 207 Class and Culture in America (5) I&S
Anthropological view of the contemporary United States with emphasis on social class. Through ethnographic readings examines education, work, political economy, working class experience and the ideology of the middle class, and relations between class and race, gender, ethnicity, language, place, sexuality, and culture.
Instructor Course Description:
Judith M.S. Pine
Teresa Mares
ANTH 208 The Culture Concept (5) I&S
History of the culture concept and its use in the field of cultural anthropology. History of its emergence in European colonial expansion and contemporary debates about its place as the central concept defining the field of anthropology.
Instructor Course Description:
Ann S. Anagnost
Judith M.S. Pine
Stephen C. Brown
ANTH 209 Anthropology Through Visual Media (5) I&S/VLPA
Theories of culture and cultural variation, as seen and understood through visual media such as films, video, and photography.
Instructor Course Description:
Carol Hermer
Samuel M. Yum
ANTH 210 Introduction to Environmental Anthropology (5) I&S
Introduction to human/environment interactions from various anthropological perspectives. Intellectual history of anthropological approaches to environment, emphasizing the mutual interconnectedness of people and nature. Survey of evolutionary models; cultural ecology; systems approaches; indigenous knowledge; ethnoecology; nature and the state; political ecology; ecofeminism; and environmentalism.
Instructor Course Description:
Eugene S Hunn
Linda E. Storm
K. Sivaramakrishnan
Stevan Harrell
Teressa Ann Trusty
ANTH 228 Identities: Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality in Anthropology (5) I&S
An introduction to the study of race, class, gender, and sexuality in anthropology. Through ethnographic and theoretical readings, students are introduced to the concept of identity as intersectional construction and social performance.
ANTH 269 Special Topics in Anthropology (3-5, max, 10)
Delineation and analysis of a specific problem or related problems in anthropology. Offered: occasionally.
ANTH 289 Identities: Service Learning (3) I&S
Instructor Course Description:
Celia Lowe
ANTH 301 Human Nature and Culture (3) I&S
Comparison of various anthropological perspectives on the sources of variation in customs, values, and beliefs of human groups, including non-Western peoples and contemporary Americans.
Instructor Course Description:
Bryan D. Tilt
ANTH 305 Anthropology of the Body (5) I&S
Surveys classic anthropological literature examining the relationship between culture and the body. Examines Euroamerican body culture historically. Explores how the body is represented in mass media and the effects this has on everyday body ideologies.
Instructor Course Description:
Jessica A. Johnson
ANTH 306 Representations of the Pacific Islands and Islanders (3) I&S/VLPA Kahn
Explores written texts and visual images about the Pacific Islands and Islanders in an effort to understand the power of representation and its relationship to the construction of knowledge. Examples drawn from early explorers, artists, novelists, anthropologists, the tourist industry, and Pacific Islanders.
ANTH 307 U.S. Pacific Islander Contemporary Culture (5) I&S McGrath
Examines U.S. Pacific Islander culture as informed by Pacific history, social and cultural organization. Emphasis on understanding contemporary experience in the U.S. and other diaspora communities. Major themes include post-colonialism, migration, family, religion, politics, gender, education, and transnational identify. Recommended: either ANTH 202 or AES 151. Offered: jointly with AAS 300. Offered: Sp.
Instructor Course Description:
Tevita O. Ka'Ili
ANTH 308 Anthropology of Women's Health and Reproduction (5) I&S Chapman
Introduction to anthropological approaches to women's health, addressing women's health status and participation in healthcare. Topics include reproductive health, women's bodies and sexuality, social policy in relation to gender, race, ethnicity, and class. Emphasis on how the politics of gender shapes women's experiences of health care institutions in the U.S.
Instructor Course Description:
Rachel R Chapman
ANTH 310 Native North American Societies (5) I&S Smith
Traditional cultures of America north of Mexico, emphasizing diversity of North American Indian and Eskimo societies. Origins of Native-American culture areas and language groupings; subsistence systems; levels of social organization; European conquest and colonialism; and description of representative cultures from the ten culture areas. Recommended: ANTH 100.
Instructor Course Description:
Eric A Smith
ANTH 312 Pacific Islands Literature (5) I&S/VLPA
Focuses on works written by Pacific Islanders (novels, short stories, plays, and poetry) since the 1970s. Explores colonialism and its effects on indigenous peoples. Examines discourses of gender, class, and cultural identity within the Pacific Islands region.
ANTH 313 Peoples of Africa (5) I&S
Survey of the many cultures of pre- and post-colonial sub-Saharan Africa. Appreciation of the adaptability, strength, and creativity of African peoples. Recommended: ANTH 100.
Instructor Course Description:
Daniel J Hoffman
ANTH 314 Ethnography, Transnationalsim, and Community in Island Southeast Asia/Asian American (5) I&S Lowe
Ethnographic exploration of the transformative processes of transnationalsim in relation to identity and community formation in Southeast Asia and among Southeast Asian Americans. Experiential learning format concentrates on mini-ethnographic projects, field trips, and group presentations. Prerequisite: either one 200-level ANTH course or one AAS/AES course. Offered: jointly with AAS 314.
Instructor Course Description:
Mia Siscawati
ANTH 315 Southeast Asian Civilization: Buddhist and Vietnamese (5) I&S Keyes
Civilizations of Theravada Buddhist societies in Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, and Laos and in Vietnamese societies of Southeast Asia. Culture of tribal peoples who live on peripheries of these societies. Cultural transformations consequent upon the war in Indochina and resettlement of Indochinese refugees in United States. Offered: jointly with SISSE 315.
ANTH 316 Modern South Asia (5) I&S
Twentieth-century history and society of Indian subcontinent. Topics include nationalism, rural and urban life, popular culture, gender, and environmental politics. Offered: jointly with SISSA 316.
Instructor Course Description:
Cabeiri Debergh Robinson
ANTH 317 Anthropology of Tibetan Civilization (5) I&S
Introduces the basic features of Tibetan society and culture, exploring how the global debate over Tibet's past, present, and future relates to contemporary concerns in anthropology, through the examination of Tibetan history, social and political organization, religion, and other cultural themes in both traditional and contemporary contexts.
ANTH 318 Peoples and Cultures of the Islamic Middle East (3) I&S
Survey of cultures and peoples of Islamic Middle East and North Africa. First half of the course emphasizes the integration of peasant, urban, and nomadic societies in the traditional culture and economy; the second half concentrates on the transformation of the traditional life styles through the process of westernization and modernization.
ANTH 320 Game Theory, Evolution, and Behavior (4) I&S, QSR Bergstrom, Smith
Introduction to the logic and basic techniques of modern game theory, and exemplary applications to understand behavioral variation and social interaction in humans and other species. Emphasizes non-mathematical representations of fundamental concepts and processes, with considerable use of computer-based exercises and experiments. Offered: jointly with BIOL 320.
ANTH 321 Comparative Religion (3) I&S
Anthropological approaches to religious experience and belief with emphasis on conceptual issues such as ritual, symbolism, identify, ecstatic experience, and revitalization movements in the context of globalization. Also addresses the diversity of religious expression in American culture and how that compares with other societies. Offered: jointly with RELIG 321.
Instructor Course Description:
James W Green
ANTH 322 Comparative Study of Death (5) I&S
Death analyzed from a cross-cultural perspective. Topics include funerary practices, concepts of the soul and afterlife, cultural variations in grief, cemeteries as folk art, and medical and ethical issues in comparative context. American death practices compared to those of other cultures. Offered: jointly with RELIG 320.
Instructor Course Description:
E. Floyd Aranyosi
James W Green
ANTH 323 Human Rights Law in Culture and Practice (5) I&S
Introduces the complexities of issues surrounding human rights. Examines human rights concerns through critical analyses, taking into account legal, social, economic, and historical variables. Offered: jointly with LSJ 321.
ANTH 324 Culture and Politics of Africa (5) I&S Hoffman
Introduction to African cultural responses to the slave trade, European colonialism, and globalization. Topics include an examination of Euro-American representations of Africa and how they are often at odds with African realities.
ANTH 330 Religion, Identity, and Cultural Pluralism (5) I&S
The role of religion in shaping personal and communal identity in a pluralistic society. Themes include current dimensions of American pluralism, effects of ethnicity, immigration, and electronic communication o building religious communities, and issues of conflict, violence, and reconciliation. Offered: jointly with RELIG 330.
ANTH 331 Native Art of the Pacific Northwest Coast (5) I&S/VLPA
Survey of the indigenous arts of the Pacific Northwest Coast from the Columbia River in the south to Southeast Alaska in the north. Overview of ancient through contemporary times, focusing on the historical and cultural contexts of the arts and the stylistic differences between tribal and individual artists' styles. Offered: jointly with ART H 331.
Instructor Course Description:
Dawn R Glinsmann
Robin K Wright
ANTH 339 Social Movements in Contemporary India (5) Ramamurthy, Sivaramakrishnan
Covers issues of social change, economic development, and identity politics in contemporary India studied through environmental and women's movements. Includes critiques of development and conflicts over forests, dams, women's rights, religious community, ethnicity, and citizenship. Offered: jointly with WOMEN 339/SISA 339.
ANTH 341 Political Violence and the Post-Colonial State in South Asia (5) I&S
Examines theoretical approaches to the analysis of collective, state, and anti-state violence in post-colonial South Asia through the study of specific cases of political violence in modern India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Nepal. Offered: jointly with SISSA 341.
ANTH 345 Women and International Economic Development (5) I&S Ramamurthy
Questions how women are affected by economic development in Third World and celebrates redefinitions of what development means. Theoretical perspectives and methods to interrogate gender and development policies introduced. Current processes of globalization and potential for changing gender and economic inequalities assessed. Offered: jointly with SIS 345/WOMEN 345.
Instructor Course Description:
Priti Ramamurthy
ANTH 352 Buddhism and Society: The Theravada Buddhist Tradition in South and Southeast Asia (5) I&S
Introduction to the religious tradition of Theravada Buddhism (as practiced in Sri Lanka, Burma, Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia) and examination of the variations in ethical orientations developed through Theravada Buddhist ideas. Recommended: RELIG 202 or one eastern religions course. Offered: jointly with RELIG 350.
Instructor Course Description:
Charles F Keyes
ANTH 353 Anthropological Studies of Women (5) I&S
Critical examination of the intersections between anthropology, research on gender issues, and feminism. Readings and class discussions examine the ways women have been represented in the field of anthropology and the repercussions of these anthropological images of women on contemporary understandings of gender. Offered: jointly with WOMEN 353.
ANTH 356 Visual Anthropology (3) I&S
The place of photography and films in ethnography; their use in the documentation and interpretation of cultural and social systems.
Instructor Course Description:
Tami Blumenfield
Stephen C. Brown
Samuel M. Yum
ANTH 358 Culture and Cognition (5) I&S/NW
Surveys anthropological theories and research on the relationship between language, thought, and behavior. Examines the influence of cultural inheritance on perception, classification, inference, and choice. Describes relevant cross-cultural research methods and evaluates theoretical models used by cognitive anthropologists. Prerequisite: either ANTH 203, LING 203, or PSYCH 355.
Instructor Course Description:
Eugene S Hunn
ANTH 359 Linguistic Ethnography (5) I&S
Language use in cultural contexts. How language reflects world view. Language use in culturally significant settings. Analyzes sets of culturally specific terms in semantic domains. Includes projects demonstrating application of theory and method to data addressing specific problems. Workshop format.
ANTH 360 Anthropology of Popular Culture (5) I&S Bilaniuk
Analysis of the forces that shape popular culture. Examination of the local meanings of global trends in music, clothing, and leisure activities through case studies around the world. Students learn ethnographic methods and conduct an original research project. Prerequisite: one 200-level ANTH course.
ANTH 361 Anthropology of Food (5) I&S
Explores how foods reproduce social relations, the meanings food acquire within culture, how food systems are intertwined with structures of power and economic inequality, national cuisines and restaurant cultures, the global marketing of foods, controversies surrounding GMO foods, and alternative food communities. Prerequisite: one 200-level ANTH course.
ANTH 362 Anthropology of Tourism (5) I&S Kahn
Anthropological approaches to tourism. Debates about cultural encounters and cultural change, authenticity, economic development, social inequalities, identity, gender, ethnicity, nationality, and cultural representation. Prerequisite: one 200-level ANTH course.
Instructor Course Description:
Miriam Kahn
Jose Oscar Barrera Nunez
ANTH 370 Han Chinese Society and Culture (5) I&S Anagnost, Harrell
Themes in the society and culture of the Han Chinese people. Concepts of self; personal interaction; family, gender, and marriage; communities and the state; religion and ritual; class, social categories, and social mobility; culturalism, nationalism, and patriotism. Offered: jointly with SISEA 370.
Instructor Course Description:
Stevan Harrell
ANTH 371 Anthropology of Development (5) I&S Sivaramakrishnan
Development refers to social, economic, cultural, political transformations viewed as progress. Studied from anthropological perspectives. Historical, social context for emergence of ideas of development. Role of development in promoting national cultures. Impact of development on individual citizenship, families, rural-urban relations, workers, business, environment. Prerequisite: one 200-level ANTH course. Offered: jointly with ENVIR 371.
Instructor Course Description:
K. Sivaramakrishnan
ANTH 374 Narrative, Literature, and Medical Anthropology (5) I&S Taylor
Introduces anthropological perspectives on the workings of narrative in illness, healing, and medicine. Considers writings in medical anthropology alongside other genres of writing about similar topics. Readings include memoirs and fiction as well as scholarly articles.
ANTH 375 Comparative Systems of Healing (3) I&S
Introduction to the anthropological study of healing. Examines four healing traditions and addresses their similarities and differences. Includes anthropological theories of healing and religion.
ANTH 379 Prisons in Anthropological Perspective (5) I&S Rhodes
An introduction to prisons from an anthropological point of view, with focus on prisons as total institutions. Topics include the experiences of prisoners and staff, prison history, issues of race and gender associated with incarceration, and the imprisonment of the mentally ill. Offered: jointly with LSJ 379.
ANTH 399 Junior Honors Seminar (5) I&S
Teaches skills required to write senior honors thesis, including evaluation of academic and scientific writing, formulation of problem, collection of bibliographic and other resources, evaluation of research proposals, and research proposal preparation. Final product is a formal thesis prospectus.
ANTH 404 South America (5) I&S
Survey of anthropological research among the traditional peoples of South America. Historical background and contemporary life of cultural groups of the Amazonian Basin. Transformation of traditional life-styles through the process of European conquest and the aftermath of colonialism. Detailed study of selected societies. Prerequisite: either one 200-level ANTH course or LING 203.
ANTH 406 China's Environment (5) I&S
Analysis of contemporary environmental problems in China, including population, food, water supply, pollution, biodiversity, and environmental activism. Combines natural science and social science perspectives. Prerequisite: either ANTH 210, ENVIR 201, SIS 200, SIS 201, or SIS 202. Offered: jointly with SISEA 406.
Instructor Course Description:
Stevan Harrell
ANTH 407 Global Futures in East Asia (5) I&S Anagnost
Explores interlinked modernity projects in China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan and how the education of youth figures in projects of national development and international economic competition. Recommended: prior courses in socio-cultural anthropology and East Asian studies. Offered: jointly with SISEA 407; AWSpS.
ANTH 412 South Asian Social Structure (5) I&S
Caste class, and community in modern India. Transitions from colonial typology to analysis of social change, diversity, stability, and caste hierarchy in rural society. Current debates on class and community in Indian society, rural and urban, explored through themes of identity, structure, and mobility. Prerequisite: one 200-level ANTH course. Offered: jointly with SISSA 412.
Instructor Course Description:
K. Sivaramakrishnan
ANTH 416 Comparative Social Movements: Mexico and the United States (5) I&S Pena
Historical, ethnographic, and theoretical perspectives in the study of Mexican-origin communities in social movements in Mexico and the United States with a focus on workers, immigrants, peasants, women, indigenous peoples, and students as forces of collective mobilization and social, cultural, and political change. Offered: jointly with CHSTU 416.
ANTH 418 Indian Heritage of Mexico and Central America (5) I&S
Indian civilization of Mexico and Guatemala, their origins and ecological foundations. Contemporary communities of Mexico and Guatemala, focusing on creative adaptation of pre-Columbian traditions to modern national realities. Prerequisite: either one 200-level ANTH course or LING 203.
Instructor Course Description:
Eugene S Hunn
ANTH 420 Psychoanalysis and the Study of Culture (3) I&S Spain
Anthropological use of theories developed by Freud to understand culture. Reviews psychoanalytic theory as a foundation for examining the work of Roheim, LaBarre, Devereaux, Kardiner, and Spiro, among others. Topics covered include the universality of oedipality and the utility of psychoanalysis in non-Western cultures.
ANTH 421 Belief, Ritual, and the Structure of Religion (5) I&S
Systematic survey of concepts, models, and theories that characterize the anthropological study of religion. Consideration of the human universal basis of religion and of diverse ways in which religions are constructed and related to social experience. Prerequisite: either ANTH 321 or RELIG 201; RELIG 202.
Instructor Course Description:
Charles F Keyes
ANTH 423 Traffic Across Cultural Boundaries (5) I&S
Focuses on the movement of cultural patterns and processes across boundaries, examining the "contact zones" in colonial encounters, moving to borrowing and blendings along ethnic and national borders. Examines border crossing of immigration and diasporas. Ethnographic examples from the Americas and Africa. Prerequisite: one 200-level ANTH course.
ANTH 424 Hunter-Gatherer Societies (4) I&S
Comparative examination of human foraging societies, emphasizing ethnographic cases and socioecological analysis. Foraging and human evolution; rationality of foraging societies; population and reproductive strategies; variability in social organization and land use; power relations between the sexes; ritual and belief; contemporary status of hunter-gatherer populations. Prerequisite: either one 200-level ANTH course or LING 203.
Instructor Course Description:
Eric A Smith
ANTH 425 Anthropology of the Post-Soviet States (5) I&S
Analysis of Soviet and post-Soviet culture and identity. Historical transformations in Soviet approaches to ethnicity and nationality; contemporary processes of nationbuilding and interethnic conflict. Examination of culture through the intersection of social ritual, government policies, language, economic practices, and daily life. Regional focus will vary. Offered: jointly with SISRE 425.
Instructor Course Description:
Laada M. Bilaniuk
ANTH 427 Anthropology in Urban Settings (3) I&S
Cross-cultural examination of theoretical issues in anthropology as studied in urban places. Focuses on ethnic identity and the formation of urban ethnic groups; migration and its rural and urban consequences; family and kinship organization as an adaptation to urban complexity; the nature of urban voluntary associations; law and politics; and the developments in anthropological method. Prerequisite: either one 200-level ANTH course or LING 203.
ANTH 428 Anthropological Perspectives on Ethnicity (5) I&S
Anthropological approaches to ethnicity and ethnic group relations with reference to other models including race, caste, class, regional groupings, nations, religion, and stratification. Data drawn from precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial periods. Prerequisite: either one 200-level ANTH course or LING 203.
Instructor Course Description:
Charles F Keyes
ANTH 429 Expressive Culture (5) VLPA
Anthropological view of one expressive aspect of culture: plastic and graphic arts, myth and folktale, music, dance, humor and tragedy, or play and games. Prerequisite: either one 200-level ANTH course or LING 203.
Instructor Course Description:
Sasha Welland
ANTH 430 The Anthropology of Music (3) I&S/VLPA
Analysis of aspects of anthropological thought influential in ethnomusicology. Critical evaluation of dominant theoretical schools and modes of explanation, e.g., evolutionist, diffusionist, historical particularist, structuralist, functionalist, symbolist, and semiotic, through detailed examination of seminal texts. Offered: jointly with MUSIC 480; alternate years.
ANTH 432 Sociolinguistics I (5) I&S/VLPA
Social variation in the phonology, morphology, syntax, lexicon of languages and dialects. Nonstandard language, diglossia, pidgins and creoles, gender differences, bi- and multilingualism, ethnography of speaking, pragmatics, and language attitudes. Prerequisite: either LING 200 or LING 400; recommended: prior or concurrent registration in ANTH 451 or LING 450. Offered: jointly with LING 432.
ANTH 433 Sociolinguistics II (5) I&S/VLPA Wassink
Examines field methods linguists use in socially oriented studies of language variation and change. Includes language attitudes, study of urban dialects, syntactic variation, sampling and interview design. Discussion of issues related to recording, ethics, and analysis of large bodies of data. Prerequisite: LING 432. Offered: jointly with LING 433.
ANTH 435 Economic Anthropology (5) I&S
Chief features of nonmonetary and simple monetary economics. Impact of central or metropolitan market economy and industrial technology as peripheral systems, especially of small-scale and limited monetary circulation. Development and application in anthropology of economic concepts, including Marxian. Prerequisite: either one 200-level ANTH course or LING 203.
Instructor Course Description:
Edgar V Winans
ANTH 436 Comparative Family Organization (5) I&S
Function and structure of family developmental processes in band, tribal, peasant, and modern societies. Illustrates inter- and intrasocietal variation and provides data for construction of formal models of process and variation in family systems. Prerequisite: either one 200-level ANTH course, LING 203, or SOC 352.
Instructor Course Description:
Mary K. Shenk
ANTH 437 Political Anthropology and Social Change (5) I&S Sivaramakrishnan
Study of politics from different anthropological perspectives, specially processual approaches to political change. Focused examination of cultural aspects of modern state formation in local and regional contexts. Themes: colonialism and nationalism, regime and transitions, local politics and global processes, social construction of bureaucracy. Prerequisite: one 200-level ANTH course.
Instructor Course Description:
Julie V Brugger
ANTH 438 The Analysis of Kinship Systems (5) I&S
Data, theories, and analytical technique used in the study of kinship systems, including our own, from around the world. Prerequisite: either one 200-level ANTH course or LING 203.
ANTH 439 Pidgin and Creole Languages (5) VLPA/I&S Wassink
Explores aspects of the linguistic structure, history, and social context of pidgin and creole languages. Creolization as one possible outcome of language contact. Examines theories of creole genesis, similarities and differences between creole and non-creole languages. Prerequisite: either ANTH 203, LING 200, LING 201, LING 203, or LING 400. Offered: jointly with LING 430.
ANTH 440 Child Rearing, Culture, and Health (3) I&S
Cross-cultural study of the child-rearing practices, cultural norms, and health behavior of children and adolescents in different societies. Comparative approaches, diverse theoretical postures, and empirical research findings are used. Offered: jointly with NURS 495.
ANTH 441 Psychological Anthropology (5) I&S
Assessment of mutual relevance of cultural and psychological variables in anthropology. Historical development of principal topics, e.g., cognition, national character, enculturation, personality and social change, cross-cultural psychiatry, sex and temperament, deviance, and psychoanalytic studies of culture. Prerequisite: either PSYCH 101 or PSYCH 205.
ANTH 442 GLOBAL ASIA (5) I&S Welland
Explores how Asia has been constructed through transnational interactions such as imperialism, anti-colonialism, tourism, diaspora, and global capitalism. Topics include the cultural construction of similarity and difference, politics of representation, and political economy of global circulations of people and things. Prerequisite: one 200-level ANTH course. Offered: jointly with SISA 442/WOMEN 446; W.
Instructor Course Description:
Sasha Welland
ANTH 444 Politics of Representation in Modern China (5) I&S
Focuses on issues of representation and power in twentieth century China. Combines substantive information on modern Chinese society and culture with recent debates in social theory and the politics of representation. Major themes include Chinese nationalism, body politics, popular culture, and everyday practice. Offered: jointly with SISEA 444.
Instructor Course Description:
Ann S. Anagnost
ANTH 445 Literature and Society in Southeast Asia (5, max. 10) I&S/VLPA
Focus on either Vietnam or Thailand. Provides students with opportunity to explore how those living in Southeast Asia have reflected on the radical social changes their societies have undergone through novels, short stories, and poetry. Prerequisite: either one 200-level ANTH course or LING 203. Offered: jointly with SISSE 445.
Instructor Course Description:
Charles F Keyes
ANTH 446 Class and Culture in East Asia (5) I&S
Examines the nexus between culture and systems of social stratification/class in East Asia, with an emphasis on Taiwan, Korea, Japan, and China. Topics include class formation, mechanisms of social mobility and reproduction, markers of status and hierarchy, resistance, and the formation of class identity. Offered: jointly with SISEA 443.
ANTH 447 Anthropology of Chinese Religion (5) I&S
Chinese religions, including folk, popular, and new religions, viewed from an anthropological perspective. Prerequisite: either ANTH 202, 204, 208, 321, 421, 370, or RELIG 202, or SISEA 370, 454.
Instructor Course Description:
Stevan Harrell
ANTH 448 Modern Korean Society (5) I&S
Social organization and values of twentieth-century Korea. Changes in family and kinship, gender relations, rural society, urban life, education, and industrial organization since 1900. Differences between North and South Korea since 1945. Recommended: HSTAS/SISEA 212. Offered: jointly with SISEA 448.
ANTH 449 Social Transformation of Modern East Asia (5) I&S
Comparative study of social change in China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam since 1945. Concentration on small-scale social units in rural and urban areas under both communist and capitalist political systems. Recommended: two history or anthropology of East Asia courses. Offered: jointly with SIS 449.
Instructor Course Description:
Hairong Yan
ANTH 450 Language and Gender (5) I&S, VLPA Bilaniuk
Survey of the theoretical trends, methods, and research findings on the relationship between language and gender. Focus on power relations in gendered language use. Extensive study of research based on conversational analysis. Prerequisite: LING 200; either LING 201, LING 203, or ANTH 203. Offered: jointly with WOMEN 450/LING 458.
Instructor Course Description:
Laada M. Bilaniuk
ANTH 451 Comparative Historical and Social Ecology of the Tropics (5) I&S Sivaramakrishnan
Historical and social aspects of tropical environmental change. Comparative analysis of resource management, conservation, and environmental regulation issues in Asia, Africa, and Latin America from cultural and political economic perspectives. Special focus on issues of state policy, expert knowledge, social conflict, and international politics. Prerequisite: ANTH 210. Offered: jointly with ENVIR 451.
Instructor Course Description:
K. Sivaramakrishnan
ANTH 454 Women, Words, Music, and Change (5) I&S/VLPA
Comparative analysis of use of myths, tales, music, and other forms of expressive culture to account for, reinforce, and change women's status and roles. Recommended: WOMEN 353. Offered: jointly with WOMEN 454.
Instructor Course Description:
Sue-Ellen Jacobs
ANTH 455 Areal Linguistics (3, max. 6) I&S/VLPA
Issues involved in classification of languages. Systems of classification based on structure, word order, areal features. Ways in which languages may be classified for different purposes. Borrowing vocabulary specialization, lexical change, and language death and revival. Prerequisite: either LING 200, LING 201, ANTH/LING 203, or LING 400. Offered: jointly with LING 455.
ANTH 456 Contemporary Ethnography (5) I&S
Techniques and theories of ethnographic description for the anthropological analysis of contemporary life. Materials drawn from the contemporary United States, with a focus on issues and events in the Seattle area. Includes fieldwork projects. Prerequisite: either one 200-level ANTH course or LING 203.
ANTH 457 Ecological Anthropology (5) I&S
Survey of anthropological research on interaction between human societies and their environments. Logic of different subsistence systems; intensification and transformation of subsistence strategies; population regulation; ecological aspects of human nutrition, disease, spatial organization, ethnicity, social stratification, conflict, and cooperation; historical roots of current ecological crisis.
Instructor Course Description:
Eric A Smith
ANTH 458 Ethnobiology: Plants, Animals, and People (5) I&S Hunn
Culturally mediated relationships between human and natural environment studied in a comparative and evolutionary framework. How do peoples in diverse cultures recognize and name plants and animals and understand their relationship with nature? How is this traditional ecological knowledge applied in people's daily lives? Prerequisite: either BIO A 201, ARCHY 205, or one 200-level ANTH course.
Instructor Course Description:
Denise M. Glover
Eugene S Hunn
ANTH 459 Culture, Ecology, and Politics (5) I&S Pena
Critical studies of class, gender and race differences in environmental politics. The political-economic dimensions of ecological change. Contemporary environmental movements including the varieties of bioregionalism, deep ecology, ecofeminism, ecosocialism, environmental justice, and social ecology. Offered: jointly with ENVIR 459.
Instructor Course Description:
Devon G Pena
Eugene N. Anderson
ANTH 460 History of Anthropology (5) I&S
Sources and development of leading concepts, issues, and approaches in anthropology. Findings of anthropology in relation to scientific and humanistic implications and to practical application. Main contributors to field; their work and influence. Past, present, and future perspectives, including anthropology of modern life.
Instructor Course Description:
Rebecca M Lemov
ANTH 464 Language Politics and Cultural Identity (3) I&S/VLPA Bilaniuk
Theories and case studies of the power of language and how it is manipulated. Multilingualism, diglossia. Role of language and linguistics in nationalism. Standardization, educational policy, language and ethnicity. World languages, language death and revival. Prerequisite: either LING 200, LING 201, ANTH/LING 203, or LING 400. Offered: jointly with LING 464
ANTH 465 Critical Anthropology of Mass Culture (5) I&S
Critical overview of theories of mass culture and their relationship to current anthropological practice. Analyses of the historical interconnnections among capitalism and commodity fetishism, modernity and representation, and media and consumption.
ANTH 466 Anthropology Honors Thesis ([1-9]-, max. 18) I&S
Individual research under the direction of a thesis advisor, culminating in a senior honors thesis. Open only to upper-class students in departmental honors program.
ANTH 467 Anthropology of Education (5) I&S
Uses a wide range of social theory and philosophy to investigate mechanisms which reproduce inequality and asymmetry in American education.
Instructor Course Description:
Judith M.S. Pine
ANTH 469 Special Studies in Anthropology (3-5, max. 15) I&S
Delineation and analysis of a specific problem or related problems in anthropology. Offered occasionally by visitors or resident faculty.
Instructor Course Description:
Ann S. Anagnost
Arzoo Osanloo
Bettina Shell-Duncan
Devon G Pena
Erica T Lehrer
J.Ben Fitzhugh
Janelle S Taylor
Leila Madge
Donna Leonetti
Lorna A Rhodes
Paula Holmes-Eber
Rachel R Chapman
Stevan Harrell
Sasha Welland
Trang X. Ta
Stephen C. Brown
Ylva K. Hernlund
Samuel M. Yum
ANTH 470 Minority Peoples of China (5) I&S
Interaction between China and the peoples of its periphery, including inner Asia, Tibet, northern mainland Southeast Asia, and aboriginal peoples of Taiwan. Emphasis on ethnicity, ethnic group consciousness, and role of the Chinese state. Prerequisite: one 200-level ANTH course; LING 203; either ANTH/SISEA 370 or HSTAS 454. Offered: jointly with SISEA 470.
Instructor Course Description:
Stevan Harrell
ANTH 471 Colonialism and Culture (5) I&S
Explores the cultural, political, and historical implications of the power to colonize. Readings include ethnographic, historical, and literary works on colonialism, nationalist responses, and postcolonial positions.
ANTH 473 Anthropology of Science and Technology (5) I&S/NW Lowe, Taylor
Introduces the study of science and technology as social and cultural phenomena. Considers both theoretical and methodological questions. Readings include key texts from interdisciplinary field of science studies as well as selected ethnographic texts. Examples taken from U.S. society and other local contexts. Prerequisite: one 200-level ANTH course.
ANTH 474 Social Difference and Medical Knowledge (5) I&S Taylor
Explores relations between medical and social categories: how social differences become medicalized; how medical conditions become associated with stigmatized social groups; and how categories become sources of identity and bases for political action. Considers classifications (race, gender, sexuality, disability) and how each has shaped and/or been shaped by medical science/practice
Instructor Course Description:
Janelle S Taylor
ANTH 475 Perspectives in Medical Anthropology (5) I&S
Introduction to medical anthropology. Explores the relationships among culture, society, and medicine. Examples from Western medicine as well as from other medical systems, incorporating both interpretive and critical approaches. Offered: jointly with HSERV 475.
Instructor Course Description:
Janelle S Taylor
ANTH 476 Culture, Medicine, and the Body (5) I&S
Explores the relationship between the body and society, with emphasis on the role of medicine as a mediator between them. Case study material, primarily from contemporary bio-medicine, as well as critical, postmodern, and feminist approaches to the body introduced within a general comparative and anthropological framework.
ANTH 477 Medicine in America: Conflicts and Contradictions (3) I&S
Introduction to the pragmatic and theoretical dilemmas of current biomedical practice with emphasis on social and cultural context. Case studies in technological intervention, risk management, and other health-related issues used to explore connections among patients’ experiences, medical practices, and the contemporary social context.
ANTH 478 Introduction to the Anthropology of Institutions (5) I&S Rhodes
Historical, theoretical, and ethnographic perspectives on the study of total institutions, with an emphasis on prisons and psychiatric facilities. Includes issues of subjection and subjectivity, institutional social dynamics, and social justice concerns.
ANTH 479 Advanced Topics in Medical Anthrpology (3-5, max. 15) I&S Chapman, Rhodes, Taylor
Explores theoretical and ethnographic advanced topics in medical anthropology. Prerequisite: permission of instructor.
ANTH 480 Introduction to Museology (5) I&S
Museum history, philosophy, and basic operations, including organization, income, collection management, conservation, exhibition, security, education, research, and ethics.
ANTH 481 Museum Collection Management (5)
Lecture and demonstration of fundamental principles of collection management issues, emphasizing collection management needs of museum collection of all types. Application of principles through integrated collection management lab experiences addressing concerns of artifact handling, cataloging, photo-documentation, storage, and registration.
ANTH 482 Museum Conservation (5) I&S
Lecture and demonstrations in the recognition and treatment of museum conservation problems for specimens of all types. Application of basic principles to specific preventive and active conservation and restoration problems encountered by curatorial personnel.
ANTH 484 Motherhood: Ideologies and Technologies (5) I&S Twine
Examines how motherhood is culturally constituted, regulated, and managed within various ideological and technological milieus. Uses ethnographies from anthropology and case studies from feminist legal theory. Topics include slave mothers, surrogate mothers, lesbian mothers, transracial mothers, co-mothers, teen mothers. Prerequisite: WOMEN 200. Offered: jointly with WOMEN 458.
Instructor Course Description:
Michelle L. Mcgowan
ANTH 485 Cultural Property: Legal and Ethical Issues (3) I&S
Examines the complex history of legal and ethical issues affecting the acquisition, ownership, and disposition of cultural property, with special attention to modern indigenous peoples’ requests for repatriation of collections from museums, as well as concerns with intellectual property rights, national patrimony policies, and related trade issues.
ANTH 486 Human Family Systems: Biological and Social Aspects (5) I&S
Biological bases for human mating and reproduction and an examination of the range of cross-cultural variability in human systems of kinship and marriage; comparisons among a wide range of human and nonhuman species and between Western and non-Western human societies; interplay of biological, ecological, and sociocultural factors in determining the structure and function of human family systems. Offered: jointly with SOC 486.
ANTH 487 Cultures and Politics of Environmental Justice (5) I&S Pena
Comparative survey of environmental justice movements in the world with focus on critical studies of environmental racism, risk, and sustainable development. Provides theoretical knowledge and research methods incorporating the study of equity and autonomy in environmental impact and risk assessment and other aspects of environmental policy politics. Offered: jointly with AES 487.
ANTH 488 Agroecology (5) I&S Pena
Cross-cultural survey of agroecological research methods, theoretical problems, policy issues, and ethical debates. Local knowledge and ethnoscientific bases of alternative agriculture. Comparative political ecology of agroecosystems with a focus on indicators of social equity and ecological sustainability.
ANTH 489 Anthropology Practicum (2-9, max. 15)
Faculty-supervised internships, either on or off campus, in organizations utilizing anthropological skills in nonacademic settings. Settings may include museums, academic journals, social service or other governmental agencies, and private nonprofit service agencies.
ANTH 491 Honors Colloquium (2, max. 12) I&S
Introduction to anthropological research. Students read original articles and papers and discuss them with authors. Research presenters include department faculty, visiting faculty, and advanced graduate students. Credit/no credit only.
ANTH 495 Advanced Problems in Ethnology (3-5, max. 10) I&S
Current problems in ethnology. Seminar format.
Instructor Course Description:
K. Sivaramakrishnan
ANTH 497 Domesticating International Human Rights: Perspectives on U.S. Asylum and Refugee Law (5) I&S
Examines the creation, production, and proliferation of law and legal categories relating to the status of refugees and asylum-seekers in the United States. Integrates anthropological perspectives of law's ability to create meaning in the examination of deeper implications of asylum and refugee law in American society. Offered: jointly with LSJ 425.
Instructor Course Description:
Arzoo Osanloo
ANTH 498 Women's Rights and Politics in Islamic Society (5) I&S
Human rights theory with women's legal rights and practice within context of the Islamic state. Introduction to debates regarding universality of human rights through examination of women's rights in Muslim context. Considers journalistic notions of homogeneity among Muslims, political nature of the Islamic state, and its mobilization of human rights. Offered: jointly with LSJ 421.
ANTH 499 Undergraduate Research (*, max. 12)
ANTH 500 Preceptorial Reading (6)
For beginning graduate students who have not had adequate training in the problems, principles, and methods involved in the analysis and comparison of social and cultural systems. Not open to graduate students in the sociocultural anthropology program.
ANTH 503 Preceptorial Reading in Linguistic Anthropology (6)
For beginning graduate students who have not had prior training in the problems, principles, and methods involved in linguistic anthropology. See also course description for 203. Not open to graduate students in the linguistics program.
ANTH 507 Current Issues in Sociocultural Anthropology (2-)
Biweekly presentations by participants and guest lecturers of current literature and ongoing research in topics pertaining to social, cultural, and linguistic anthropology. Credit/no credit only. Prerequisite: first-year sociocultural graduate students in good standing or permission of sociocultural faculty.
ANTH 508 Current Issues in Sociocultural Anthropology (2)
Biweekly presentations by participants and guest lecturers of current literature and ongoing research in topics pertaining to social, cultural, and linguistic anthropology. Credit/no credit only. Prerequisite: first-year sociocultural graduate students in good standing or permission of sociocultural faculty.
Instructor Course Description:
Janelle S Taylor
ANTH 509 Sociocultural Anthropology Problem Paper (4)
All first-year graduate students in sociocultural anthropology select a topic for independent research, conduct that research, and prepare a paper of about 25-50 pages on the topic chosen. Prerequisite: first-year sociocultural graduate students in good standing or permission of sociocultural faculty.
ANTH 510 Seminar on North American Indians (3)
Advanced comparative treatment of selected aspects of the Indian cultures and societies of North America.
ANTH 514 Regional Seminar (3-5, max. 15)
Comparative treatment of selected aspects of cultures and societies of a particular region or area.
ANTH 517 Seminar on South Asia (3)
Advanced analysis of selected problems in South Asian ethnology and social structure. Prerequisite: ANTH 412.
ANTH 521 Seminar on the Anthropological Study of Religion (3, max. 9)
Advanced seminar in the anthropological study of religion designed for students who have a background in the theory and applications of theory developed in the anthropological study of religion. Seminar topics vary each quarter. Prerequisite: ANTH 422 and graduate standing; permission of instructor for graduate students in Comparative Religion.
Instructor Course Description:
Charles F Keyes
ANTH 523 Seminar on Religious and Political Violence (5) Robinson
Employs ethnographic studies and anthropological theory to examine the relationships between culture and power in the analysis of religious and political violence. Topics include modernity; secularisms and fundamentalisms; ritual, sacrifice, and martyrdom; law, rights, and subject-making. Offered: jointly with SIS 523.
ANTH 525 Seminar in Culture Processes (3, max. 6)
The concept of process and its application to the study of culture.
Instructor Course Description:
Stevan Harrell
ANTH 527 Ethnicities, Nations, and Cultural Identities (3)
Exploration of how cultural differences have been represented in ethnic and national narratives and how these narratives have shaped identities and social relations.
ANTH 533 Law, Liberalism, and Modernity (5)
Examines relationships between law, culture, and power through post-structuralist theories that consider subjectivity, agency, and identity. Explores connections between modern liberal law and the body, possessive individualisms, and discourses of rights. Topics include rights-talk, globalization, biopoliti8cs, subject-making, modern nation-states, the rule of law, neo-liberalism, and legal cultures.
ANTH 535 Research Issues in Demography and Population Studies (1-2, max. 7)
Interdisciplinary seminar on current research issues in demography and population studies. Critical analysis and discussion of readings drawn from anthropological, economic, geographic, and sociological approaches. Credit/no credit only. Offered: AWSp.
ANTH 536 Seminar in Visual Anthropology (3-5)
Significance of anthropological cinema and photography placed in historical perspective. Screening of films to determine the role of the anthropologist as filmmaker, as well as the role of the filmmaker as anthropologist.
Instructor Course Description:
Gary J. Witherspoon
ANTH 537 Political Anthropology and Law (3, max. 6)
Seminar on special topics in politics and law and their interrelationships.
Instructor Course Description:
Arzoo Osanloo
ANTH 539 Social Movements in Contemporary India (5) Ramamurthy, Sivaramakrishnan
Covers issues of social change, economic development, and identity politics in contemporary India studied through environmental and women's movements. Includes critiques of development and conflicts over forests, dams, women's rights, religious community, ethnicity, and citizenship. Offered: jointly with SISSA 539/WOMEN 539.
ANTH 540 Anthropology of Place (5) Kahn, Pena
Explores a variety of ways that “place” has been studied and theorized. Attention paid to places as they are sensed, inscribed, practiced, narrated, scripted, created, and reclaimed. “Place” also discussed in relation to issues of the environment, travel, diaspora, race, class, and gender.
ANTH 541 Cultural Aspects of International Development (3) Sivaramakrishnan
Emergence of development as an aspect of late colonialism and the decolonization process. Ways in which development came to visualize social change in sectoral terms like rural land use, cities, and education, while objectifying people in target groups. Relationships between development and modernity, and development and globalization.
ANTH 542 Seminar in Cognitive Anthropology (3)
Examines the intellectual history of cognitive anthropology; assesses its major findings in kinship, folk biology, color classification, and decision and planning theory. Replicates key studies, using cognitive anthropological methods. Evaluates influences from linguistics, psychology, and artificial intelligence research. Practical applications and future prospects.
ANTH 550 Field Techniques in Ethnography (5)
Techniques of collecting, ordering, and utilizing ethnographic data in the field. Problems of rapport, elicitation, observation, interpretation, and ethics. Credit/no credit only.
ANTH 551 Research Design (3)
Principles of research design, including problem delineation and selection of appropriate methods, as applied to current issues in sociocultural anthropology. Prerequisite: permission of instructor.
ANTH 552 Practicum in Ethnographic Research (3)
Techniques of data recording, analysis, and writing for the field ethnographer. Not recommended for non-anthropology graduate students. Prerequisite: ANTH 550; ANTH 551.
ANTH 553 Analysis of Linguistic Structures (3, max. 6)
Syntactic, semantic, or phonological analysis. Languages to be analyzed vary. Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Offered: jointly with LING 553.
ANTH 555 Discourses in Feminist Anthropology Seminar (5) Jacobs
Exploration of feminist anthropological theories and the works of their critics. Ways of using feminist anthropology in preparation for and conducting fieldwork. Topics include foundations in feminist anthropology, grand theories, variation in feminist theoretical foci within the "four fields," responses to critics. Prerequisite: graduate standing. Offered: jointly with WOMEN 553.
ANTH 556 The Evolution of the Family (3)
Biological evolution of species-specific behaviors and forms of sociality linked to human mating, reproduction, and parenting. Cultural evolution of human systems of kinship and marriage as fitness-maximizing adaptations to a wide range of habitats. Prerequisite: upper-division course in evolutionary theory, population genetics, behavioral ecology, primatology, or animal behavior. Offered: jointly with SOC 556.
ANTH 559 Seminar in Language and Culture (3, max. 9)
Theoretical and methodological problems in language and culture.
ANTH 560 Discourse and Culture (5)
Exploration of discourse and narrative as culturally constitutive activities. Critical examination of the social implications of cultural variation in discourse. Techniques of discourse analysis in anthropological research.
ANTH 561 Seminar in Methods and Theories (3, max. 9)
Instructor Course Description:
Daniel J Hoffman
ANTH 562 Clinically Applied Anthropology (3)
Anthropology as it relates to interdisciplinary delivery of health care. Cultural variation in illness beliefs and behavior, types of healing practice, illness prevention, and social support networks. Prerequisite: graduate standing and permission of instructor. Offered: jointly with NURS 562.
ANTH 565 Theory of Sociocultural Anthropology (5)
First core course sequence for the beginning graduate student in sociocultural anthropology in which the development of theory is analyzed and emphasis is placed on the relation between theory and a growing body of ethnographic data. Prerequisite: graduate standing in anthropology or permission of instructor.
ANTH 566 Theory of Sociocultural Anthropology (5)
Second core course sequence for the beginning graduate student in sociocultural anthropology in which the development of theory is analyzed and emphasis is placed on the relation between theory and a growing body of ethnographic data. Prerequisite: ANTH 565.
ANTH 567 Theory of Sociocultural Anthropology (5)
Third core course sequence for the beginning graduate student in sociocultural anthropology in which the development of theory is analyzed and emphasis is placed on the relation between theory and a growing body of ethnographic data. Prerequisite: ANTH 566.
Instructor Course Description:
Miriam Kahn
ANTH 569 Special Topics in Sociocultural Anthropology (3-5, max.15)
Delineation and analysis of a specific topic or set of related topics in sociocultural anthropology.
ANTH 570 Environmental Anthropology (5)
Current issues in the study of human environment interaction from a cross-cultural perspective: ecological adaptation and maladaptation; ethnoecology and indigenous knowledge; anthropogenic environmental change; political ecology of “development;” interrelations of cultural and biological diversity; conflicts over indigenous land use and property rights, environmental justice, resource conservation, and sustainability.
ANTH 572 Environmental Anthropology Research Methodology Colloquium (2, max. 10)
Environmental anthropology research methodology and practice. Presentations by faculty and advanced students, hands-on exercises, and extensive discussion. Students at various stages in the program learn practical details of current methods. Limited to environmental anthropology PhD students. Credit/no credit only.
ANTH 573 Current Issues in Environmental Anthropology (2, max. 10)
Presentation and discussion of current research and scholarly literature in environmental anthropology and related fields. Credit/no credit only. Prerequisite: graduate standing in any field of anthropology or permission of instructor.
ANTH 574 Culture, Society, and Genomics (3)
Examines social and cultural issues of human genome sequencing and control of genetic expression. Attitudes and behaviors toward health, illness, and disability are studied using historical, contemporary, and cross-cultural case study material. Offered: jointly with NURS 582/PHG 521.
Instructor Course Description:
Barbara B. Mcgrath
ANTH 575 Cultural Construction of Illness: Seminar in Medical Anthropology (5)
Historical and comparative examination of depression, neurasthenia, somatization, hypochondriasis, and hysteria. Anthropology of psychosomatics and psychiatry, including cultural analysis of selected biomedical, indigenous folk medical, and popular common-sense conceptualizations of illness.
ANTH 578 Special Topics in the Anthropology of Institutions (5)
Explores theoretical issues.
Instructor Course Description:
Lorna A Rhodes
ANTH 580 Presenting Research Effectively (2)
Designed to help advanced graduate students develop the ability to present research projects effectively in a variety of formats relevant to the academic job-search process (c.v., job letter, interview, etc). Faculty and alumni speakers share information, advice, and guidance regarding the job-search and the various paths toward meaningful employment.
ANTH 581 Dissertation Writing (3)
Students experiment with different styles of anthropological writing. They apply writing techniques and styles to their own material. Students peer review for one another. Credit/no credit only.
ANTH 584 Ways of Speaking (5)
Theory and literature of the ethnography of communication, with special emphasis on the descriptive-comparative approach to culturally patterned styles of communicative conduct. Offered: jointly with COM 584.
ANTH 590 Seminar in Museum Theory and Administration (5)
Examination of principles of administrative theory and museum operations. Administrative structures and policies, management theory, board issues, organizational conflicts, planning issues, collection concerns, financial constructs, professional standards, and museum/community relations from an organizational and management perspective. Recommended: MUS 480. Offered: jointly with MUSEUM 590.
ANTH 591 Seminar in Museum Operations (5)
Designing hypothetical museums and creating a first year of operations. Design elements include architectural plan, staffing plan, initial and recurring budgets, security system, records system, educational plan, and policy making. Recommended: 590. Offered: jointly with MUSEUM 591.
ANTH 599 Effective Teaching of Anthropology (1)
Class required of all graduate students who accept teaching assistantships: instruction in teaching methods and issues, e.g., professional ethics, preparing and delivering lectures, leading discussion groups, test writing and grading, diversity in the classroom. Credit/no credit only.
ANTH 600 Independent Study or Research (*)
ANTH 700 Master's Thesis (*)
Credit/no credit only.
ANTH 800 Doctoral Dissertation (*)
Credit/no credit only.
