13 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 101Introduction to Cultural Diversity3.0
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
