7 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 113Cultural Anthropology4
An introduction to the ways that anthropologists analyze cultures to understand the diversity of human social forms. Using both cross-cultural comparisons of major social institutions and practices and the intensive examination of selected specific cultures, it seeks to promote students’ understanding of human cultural diversity. (Intercultural and Linguistic Competencies)(Equity Inclusion)
Tourism and tourist-based activities account for over ten percent of the world GDP today (source: World Tourism Organization). As more people are traveling to different places away from their homes, the level of interaction between hosts and guests has significant implications on the development of new cultural patterns and social practices in guest and host destinations. This course examines the development of tourism within the conceptual framework of anthropology and related social sciences. It encourages students to examine the impact that tourism has upon the cultures and people visited, the nature and relationship of culture to tourism, the recreation and manufacture of heritage for tourists and the performance of cultural acts through orchestrated dance, song and festivals. In the process of understanding the role of tourism and heritage in the development of modern cities and nations, students will survey how spaces are demarcated for tourism consumption, explore the role of marketing and branding of tourist destinations in shaping tourist activities and identify trends in tourism and heritage development. Furthermore, students will analyze complementary and contrasting viewpoints about cultural politics, sustainable social and economic development, and other issues related to the promotion of tourism in different parts of the world, and the challenges that host communities increasingly face in light of the presence of tourists. (M4)(PTK: Global Connections)
The course explores the scope of methodologies incorporated within contemporary cultural anthropology. Students will engage in examining epistemological perspectives in the practice of anthropology and work towards acquiring skills for conducting and carrying out various stages of ethnographic fieldwork, from research design, methods of data collection to developing tools of interpretive analysis and presenting their findings across different audiences, within and outside academia. The course will further engage students to contemplate theoretical and ethical frameworks for conceptualizing the value and relevance of anthropological knowledge and methodologies in an increasingly interconnected global society. Writing-intensive. (Writing)
SOC 115 or SOC 113 or ANTH 113 LinC Requirement: WI Credit Type Code: Letter Grade TAGS Writing
ANTH 262Modern African Cult/Society4
Modern African Culture and Society.Globalization and neo-liberal policies have worsened conditions of inequalities and poverty across the global south, particularly across the African continent. This course offers students an opportunity to gain first-hand experiential insights into examining how the current global capitalist economy’s structures impose systemic inequalities and poverty in African societies and evaluate how the people there situate themselves and challenge their positions from the periphery. For the study abroad component of the course, students will travel across different urban and rural communities in an African country and study how the current political ecology there is shaped by the interplay between global and local social structures in the arena of politics, economics, technology, media, and culture. They will examine how these developments mediate the capacity in which local citizens can access various resources and acquires modes of mobility to contest and negotiate their socio-economic-political positions within the prevailing milieu of inequalities and poverty in their society. Upon returning from Africa, students will engage in online coursework evaluating the impact of these inequalities and poverty within today’s broader context of globalization.(M5)
In Health in Cultural Perspectives, students will gain an introduction to ideas from medical anthropology to explore the diverse ways people come to think about the body, medicine, and healing in the United States and around the world. Additionally, students will examine what determines the quality of care people receive in these healthcare systems, and what practitioners can do to be attentive to cultural differences and inequalities.
SOC115 - Introductory Sociology OR SOC113 - Cultural Anthropology MILE Requirement: GLO Credit Type Code: Letter Grade TAGS Cultural and Linguistic Competencies
ANTH 347WI: Advanced Research Anthropology4
The course explores the scope of methodologies incorporated within contemporary cultural anthropology. Students will engage in examining epistemological perspectives in the practice of anthropology and work towards acquiring skills for conducting and carrying out various stages of ethnographic fieldwork, from research design, methods of data collection to developing tools of interpretive analysis and presenting their findings across different audiences, within and outside academia. The course will further engage students to contemplate theoretical and ethical frameworks for conceptualizing the value and relevance of anthropological knowledge and methodologies in an increasingly interconnected global society. Writing-intensive. (Writing)
