Anthropology
Courses
ANTH 101 Introduction to Cultural Diversity 3.0 Credits
Examines the diversity that exists in human culture. Uses lectures, films, and discussions to examine and illustrate the relationship between humans and their social/cultural systems.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
ANTH 112 Language, Culture & Cognition 3.0 Credits
This course is an introductory survey of three ways language is understood as a central element that glues together human culture; language around categories and taxonomies as shared perception; language origins and evolution; and language as socialization. An additional fourth unit on fieldwork methods in cross-cultural understanding and language starts to prepare you for future qualitative research.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
ANTH 117 Introduction to World Religions 3.0 Credits
This course is meant to be a foundational course for the minor in religious studies. It introduces students to the world religions from an anthropological perspective. Hence the basic concerns of an anthropological approach – worldview, ritual, myth, and so forth – are introduced early and applied to each of the religions studied.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
ANTH 205 Imagining Africa 3.0 Credits
This course introduces students to Africa by exploring how Africa and Africans have been viewed, perceived or imagined by non-Africans; how such images and stories have affected Africans’ roles in global politics, economy, and media; and how images and stories generated by Africans are used creatively to express a sense of African lives in public life, in the arts and in the sciences. The course includes multiple video screenings.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
ANTH 212 [WI] Topics in World Ethnography 3.0 Credits
Examines the peoples and cultures of the selected cultural areas. Emphasizes indigenous cultures and the effects of modernization on these cultures.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
ANTH 217 Anthropology of Interfaith Relations 3.0 Credits
This course aims to introduce students to how anthropological and ethnographic analyses can help us understand the variety of ways in which people of different faiths both conflict with and work amicably together.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
ANTH 240 Urban Anthropology 3.0 Credits
This course will give students the opportunity to familiarize themselves with the major themes in urban anthropology and how they relate to other areas of research in anthropology and the social sciences in general. Students will focus on the research methods used by urban anthropologists as well as read different ethnographic cases of urban life.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
ANTH 250 Anthropology of Immigration 3.0 Credits
By examination of key ethnographical texts, the course covers basic theoretical and topical approaches to the anthropology of immigration, including: immigration and emigration; transnationalism and globalization; reception contexts; ethnic economies, enclaves and ethnic businesses; global economic strategies for migrant households; refugees, the state and immigration; culture, identity, and adaptation and assimilation.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
ANTH 270 Comparative Religious Ethics 3.0 Credits
The eternal teaching of the different religions and how they address such issues as war, sexuality and economics.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
ANTH 330 Media Anthropology 3.0 Credits
This course will introduce students to the anthropological study of media including traditional forms of mass media as well as new media such as the Internet. Students will be exposed to the theories and methodologies of media study from an anthropological perspective. Students will also engage in their own ethnographic studies of media to gain first hand experience with the methods of anthropology.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
ANTH 345 Visual Anthropology 3.0 Credits
Introduces students to the subdiscipline of visual anthropology through an overview of visual theory and a survey of ethnographic photography and film. Students will learn to evaluate ethnographic visual representation as well as develop their own skills as visual anthropologists through documenting and representing cultural phenomena.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: ANTH 101 [Min Grade: D]
ANTH 355 Digital Culture 3.0 Credits
This course will focus on how the internet, new and social media have changed the way we think about space and time. It will look at the ways we work and engage in leisure activities. We will bring the approach of anthropology to the study of these new media in order to ask key questions about social life.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
ANTH 375 Digital Ethnography 3.0 Credits
This course is the second part in the ethnographic methods series. It introduces students to the research methodologies employed by anthropologists to study online environments, digital communities, and virtual worlds. Students will gain practical, firsthand experience carrying out digital ethnographies and learn to evaluate the quality of digital ethnographic research.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
ANTH I199 Independent Study in ANTH 0.0-12.0 Credits
Self-directed within the area of study requiring intermittent consultation with a designated instructor.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
ANTH I299 Independent Study in ANTH 0.0-12.0 Credits
Self-directed within the area of study requiring intermittent consultation with a designated instructor.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
ANTH I399 Independent Study in ANTH 0.0-12.0 Credits
Self-directed within the area of study requiring intermittent consultation with a designated instructor.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
ANTH I499 Independent Study in ANTH 0.0-12.0 Credits
Self-directed within the area of study requiring intermittent consultation with a designated instructor.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
ANTH T180 Special Topics in Anthropology 0.0-12.0 Credits
Topics decided upon by faculty will vary within the area of study.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
ANTH T280 Special Topics in Anthropology 0.0-12.0 Credits
Topics decided upon by faculty will vary within the area of study.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
ANTH T380 Special Topics in Anthropology 0.0-12.0 Credits
Topics decided upon by faculty will vary within the area of study.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
ANTH T480 Special Topics in Anthropology 0.0-12.0 Credits
Topics decided upon by faculty will vary within the area of study.
Repeat Status: Can be repeated multiple times for credit
