24 courses with the subject ANTH, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
ANTH 1050Cultural Anthropology
Anthropology is a holistic approach to the study of humankind. By examining different cultural systems around the globe, anthropologi
What constitutes East Asia? How shall we understand East Asia as a geographic location, as diverse forms of culture, as an imagined community, and cultural construction that is consistently changing in relation to globalized processes? Through learning about the main cultural traditions and foundations of East Asian societies, together we will investigate how cultural anthropology as a discipline offers concepts and questions to help us better comprehend diverse ways of life in East Asia. This course will introduce important conceptual categories and ethnographic examples about the historical changes and contemporary issues of East Asian societies, such as family, kinship, gender, social relationship, religion, and major philosophical thoughts in East Asian countries. The course will also explain East Asian political economic systems and their dynamics in a globalizing context. We will focus on China, Japan, and South Korea and will explore the connections between other East Asian regions. Ultimately we will utilize insights drawn from the course to shed light on cross-cultural comparison between East Asia and the western world, especially the US. Students will learn to view East Asia critically and ethnographically, and thus reflect on their own cultural assumptions and experiences as inhabitants of the West as well as global citizens.
This course will introduce students to the field of men and masculinity. It will examine cultural construction of masculinity through the life course of men and in institutions such as family, schools, college, workplace, military, marriage, politics, and with a focus on contemporary American, Chinese, Mexican, and Japanese societies. This course will highlight the multiple masculinities that exist, showing which are privileged and what effects this hierarchy of masculinities has. Topics include men's socialization, male sexuality and fertility, men's health and body, male aggression and violence, the idea of machismo, intimacy and friendship among males, fatherhood, men's experiences with sports and work, media representations of boys and men, and the social construction of masculinities in different historical and cultural contexts. This course will help students understand how masculinity as a social concept affects their relations with the people in their lives, approaching gender problems in a rational way, and developing cultural sensitivity toward masculinity and gender issues.
