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Course Schedule for ANTHROPOLOGY - Fall 2013

Class No.	Course ID	Title	Credits	Type	Instructor(s)	Days:Times	Location	Permission Required	Dist
3307	ANTH-101-01	Intro to Cultural Anthropology	1.00	LEC	Hussain,Shafqat	TR: 10:50AM-12:05PM	TBA		GLB5
		Enrollment limited to 45
		Anthropology as a field asks what it means to be human: how do we know what is universal to human existence? What is natural and what is cultural? How can the strange become familiar and the familiar strange? This course introduces the theory and method of cultural anthropology as applied to case studies from different geographic and ethnographic areas. Topics to be considered include family and kinship, inequality and hierarchy, race and ethnicity, ritual and symbol systems, gender and sexuality, reciprocity and exchange, globalization and social change.
3308	ANTH-101-02	Intro to Cultural Anthropology	1.00	LEC	Notar,Beth E.	MW: 8:30AM-9:45AM	TBA		GLB5
		Enrollment limited to 45
		Anthropology as a field asks what it means to be human: how do we know what is universal to human existence? What is natural and what is cultural? How can the strange become familiar and the familiar strange? This course introduces the theory and method of cultural anthropology as applied to case studies from different geographic and ethnographic areas. Topics to be considered include family and kinship, inequality and hierarchy, race and ethnicity, ritual and symbol systems, gender and sexuality, reciprocity and exchange, globalization and social change.
2403	ANTH-215-01	Medical Anthropology	1.00	LEC	Beebe,Rebecca	TR: 2:55PM-4:10PM	TBA		GLB5
		Enrollment limited to 30
		Prerequisite: Anthropology 101 (formerly 201) or other Anthropology course or Permission of Instructor.
		NOTE: 5 seats are reserved for first year students, 5 for sophomores, 10 for juniors and 5 for seniors.
		This course covers major topics in medical anthropology, including biocultural analyses of health and disease, the social patterning of disease, cultural critiques of biomedicine, and non-Western systems of healing. We will explore the major theoretical schools in medical anthropology, and see how they have been applied to specific pathologies, life processes, and social responses. Finally we will explore and critique how medical anthropology has been applied to health care in the United States and internationally. The course will sensitize students to cultural issues in sickness and health care, and provide some critical analytic concepts and tools.
3289	ANTH-228-01	Anth from Margins/South Asia	1.00	LEC	Hussain,Shafqat	TR: 1:30PM-2:45PM	TBA
		Enrollment limited to 30
		This course will examine how the northwestern and northern mountainous regions of South Asia have been constructed in the Western popular imagination, both in literary texts and in academic debates. Starting with the era of the Great Game in the late 19th century and ending with the current "war on terror," the course will explore the transformation and continuation of past social and political conditions, and their representations within the region. This will help illuminate some of the enduring themes in anthropological debates, such as culture contact; empires, territories, and resources; and human agency.
3286	ANTH-238-01	Economic Anthropology	1.00	LEC	Notar,Beth E.	MW: 1:15PM-2:30PM	TBA		GLB5
		Enrollment limited to 30
		We often assume that culture and the economy are separate, but all economic transactions contain cultural dimensions, and all cultural institutions exhibit economic features. This course provides an introduction to key debates and contemporary issues in economic anthropology. We will consider differences in the organization of production, distribution, and consumption in both subsistence and market economies and examine ways in which anthropologists have theorized these differences. Topics for discussion will include cultural conceptions of property and ownership, social transitions to market economies, the meanings of shopping, and the commodification of bodies and body parts such as organs and blood. Course materials will draw from ethnographic studies, newspaper articles, and documentary films.
3287	ANTH-253-01	Urban Anthropology	1.00	LEC	Beebe,Rebecca	TR: 9:25AM-10:40AM	TBA		SOC
		Enrollment limited to 30
		This course will trace the social scientific (especially ethnographic and cultural) study of the modern city from its roots in the Industrial Revolution through the current urban transformations brought about by advanced capitalism and globalization. Why are cities organized as they are? How does their organization shape, and get shaped by, everyday practices of city inhabitants? This course will explore the roles of institutional actors (such as governments and corporations) in urban organization, and the effects of economic change, immigration, and public policy on the social organization and built environment of cities. It will examine social consequences of cities, including economic inequality, racial stratification, community formation, poverty, and urban social movements. Though it will focus on American urbanism, this course will also be international and ethnographic.
2173	ANTH-302-01	History of Anth Thought	1.00	LEC	Nadel-Klein,Jane H.	TR: 9:25AM-10:40AM	TBA		SOC
		Enrollment limited to 25
		This course explores the anthropological tradition as it has changed from the late 19th century until the present. Students will read works of the major figures in the development of the discipline, such as Bronislaw Malinowski, Franz Boas, Margaret Mead, and Claude Levi-Strauss. They will learn not only what these anthropologists had to say about reality, but why they said it when they did. In this sense, the course turns an anthropological eye on anthropology itself.
3288	ANTH-330-01	Anthropology of Food	1.00	SEM	Beebe,Rebecca	MW: 2:40PM-3:55PM	TBA		SOC
		Enrollment limited to 20
		Because food is necessary to sustain biological life, its production and provision occupy humans everywhere. Due to this essential importance, food also operates to create and symbolize collective life. This seminar will examine the social and cultural significance of food. Topics to be discussed include the evolution of human food systems, the social and cultural relationships between food production and human reproduction, the development of women’s association with the domestic sphere, the meaning and experience of eating disorders, the connection between ethnic cuisines, nationalist movements and social classes, and the causes of famine.
2395	ANTH-499-01	Senior Thesis Part 2	2.00	IND	TBA	TBA	TBA	Y	WEB
		Enrollment limited to 100
		Submission of the special registration form, available in the Registrar's Office, and the approval of the instructor and program director are required for each semester of this yearlong thesis. (2 course credits are considered pending in the first semester; 2 course credits will be awarded for completion in the second semester.)
3157	INTS-131-01	Modern Iran	1.00	LEC	Bauer,Janet L.	TR: 1:30PM-2:45PM	TBA		GLB
		Enrollment limited to 45
		NOTE: 17 seats are reserved for first-year students and 8 seats reserved for sophomores.
		This course provides an introduction to 20th-century Iranian society, culture, and politics, examining secular and religious debates over gender roles, modernity, Islamism, democracy, and the West.
3325	INTS-215-01	Central Asia in Transition	1.00	SEM	Nauruzbayeva,Zhanara	TR: 2:55PM-4:10PM	TBA		GLB
		Enrollment limited to 20
		This course investigates contemporary Central Asia as a specific context of postsocialist and postcolonial transition to independent statehood in the aftermath of global Cold War politics. Until 1990, Central Asia was considered a remote part of the Soviet Union and was little known to the outside world. Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan emerged as modern, independent nation-states and were promptly integrated into global processes through Western initiatives for democratization and market reforms, oil and gas exploitation, and the American-led war on terrorism. Our major goal is to understand Central Asian societies and postsocialist changes from the perspective of communities themselves and see how these refract through the lenses of age, gender, ethnicity, and religion.
3159	INTS-234-01	Gender and Education	1.00	LEC	Bauer,Janet L.	TR: 2:55PM-4:10PM	TBA		GLB
		Enrollment limited to 30
		NOTE: There are 5 seats reserved for first-year students and 5 seats reserved for sophomores.
		What is gender equity in schooling and what impact does this have on gender equity more broadly? Different disciplinary perspectives on the impact of gender in learning, school experience, performance and achievement will be explored in elementary, secondary, post-secondary, and informal educational settings. The legal and public policy implications of these findings (such as gender-segregated schooling, men’s and women’s studies programs, curriculum reform, Title IX, affirmative action and other proposed remedies) will be explored. Findings on socialization and schooling in the U.S. will be contrasted with those from other cultures.
3353	INTS-320-01	Postsocialist City	1.00	SEM	Nauruzbayeva,Zhanara	R: 6:30PM-9:00PM	TBA		GLB2
		Enrollment limited to 15
		At the beginning of the twentieth century, the Soviet Union was a key site of experimentation where avant-garde architects and planners could realize their visions for democratic and egalitarian cities. This course explores how these ideals were implemented, compromised or modified from the perspectives of administrators and residents. We will also learn how the socialist legacy of built urban environments has shaped and conditioned the ways in which postsocialist societies are remade under the terms of a market economy. The course will be of particular interest to students interested in design, architecture, city planning, and public policy.
3354	INTS-335-01	Capitalism & Authoritarianism	1.00	SEM	Nauruzbayeva,Zhanara	T: 6:30PM-9:00PM	TBA		GLB2
		Enrollment limited to 15
		This course interrogates the common identification of capitalism with liberal democracy. Although the emergence of capitalism overlapped with the process of formation of the public sphere and participatory democracy, post-WWII economic developments have troubled this coupling. We will explore the emergence of authoritarian capitalisms in Asia by attending to the phenomenon of “Asian Tigers” and delineating their conditions of possibility. We will also investigate the scholarship on the rise of neoliberalism in Western countries that identified this particular incarnation of capitalism as authoritarian control of the most private realms of human existence. Together, we will ponder on the consequences of this disassociation of political and economic liberalism.
3279	RELG-281-01	Anthropology of Religion	1.00	LEC	Desmangles,Leslie G.	MWF: 11:00AM-11:50AM	TBA		GLB5
		Enrollment limited to 30
		Introduction to the foundations of religion through an examination of religious phenomena prevalent in traditional cultures. Some of the topics covered in this course include a critical examination of the idea of primitivity, the concepts of space and time, myths, symbols, ideas related to God, man, death, and rituals such as rites of passage, magic, sorcery, witchcraft, and divination. (May be counted toward anthropology and international studies/comparative development.)

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