|
2017-2018 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
|
|
|
Africana Studies |
|
|
|
-
AFR 120 - Afro-Latin America (= LAS 120) Instructor
Benson
From Mexico to Brazil and beyond, Africans and people of African descent have fought in wars of independence, forged mixed race national identities, and contributed politically and culturally to the making of the Americas. Even though Latin America imported ten times as many slaves as the United States, only recently have scholars begun to highlight the role blacks and other people of African descent played in Latin American history. This course will explore the experiences of Afro-Latin Americans from slavery to the present, with a particular focus on Haiti, Cuba, Mexico, Brazil, and Colombia. In doing so, the course seeks to answer questions such as: What does it mean to be black in Latin America? Why has racism persisted in Latin America despite political revolutions claiming to eliminate discrimination? What are the links between blacks in Latin America and the United States? How have differing conceptions of “race” and “nation” caused the rise and decline of transnational black alliances between U.S. blacks and Afro-Latin Americans? All course readings will be in English and will include memoirs, films, and first-hand historical documents in additional to scholarly books and articles.
Satisfies a requirement in the Africana Studies major (Geographic Region: Latin America/Caribbean).
Satisfies a requirement in the Latin American Studies major or minor.
Satisfies the cultural diversity distribution requirement.
|
|
-
AFR 235 - The 1959 Cuban Revolution (=HIS 362, =LAS 235) Instructor
Benson
This course explores the historical underpinnings of the 1959 Cuban Revolution, U.S.-Cuban relations, and how Cubans have experienced the changes the island has undergone in the past 100 years. Particular attention is given to people of African descent who make up over a one-third of the island’s population. This Cuban narrative illuminates a variety of themes including the spread of U.S. imperialism, Cuba’s fight for sovereignty, and race relations in the Americas.
Satisfies a major requirement in Africana Studies (Geographic Region: Latin American/Caribbean).
Satisfies a major or minor requirement in History.
Satisfies a major or minor requirement in Latin American Studies.
Satisfies the Historical Thought distribution requirement.
Satisfies the cultural diversity requirement.
|
|
-
AFR 250 - Black Women in Contemporary Performance Instructor
Amin
This course considers the ways in which Black women have operationalized performance as a site for cultural criticism and social commentary. Centering the work of artists including Josephine Baker, Katherine Dunham and others, students will investigate how the use of dance, music, song, costume and other performance elements are leveraged to both stabilize and interrupt audience assumptions about the possibilities of performance beyond entertainment or the stimulation of pleasure. The course will consider how notions of race, gender and sexuality are repeated as consistent performative acts and how these categories are crafted and expressed through the artistic choices of select Black women performers working across theatrical genres from the 1920s to the present.
Counts as an elective in the Cultural Production & Expression category of the Africana Studies major (Geographic Region = North America).
Satisfies a requirement in the Literary & Cultural Representations track of the Gender & Sexuality Studies major and minor.
Counts as an elective for the Dance minor.
Satisfies the Visual and Performing Arts distribution requirement.
Satisfies the cultural diversity requirement.
|
|
-
AFR 266 - Africa Shoots Back, in transl. (=FRE 366) Instructor
Fache
Africa Shoots Back examines West African cinema from its beginnings in the early 1960s to today. The selection of films exposes students to new voices, perspectives and representations of Francophone West Africa from a West African perspective. We will discuss issues of decolonization and post-colonial cultural economy, as well as analyze traditional African narrative strategies and new and unconventional images.
Fulfills a requirement in the Africana Studies major (Geographic Region: Africa).
Fulfills a requirement in the Film & Media Studies interdisciplinary minor.
Counts towards the French & Francophone Studies major and minor.
Satisfies distribution requirement in Visual and Performing Arts.
|
|
-
AFR 282 - African American Literature: 18th - 19th Century (=ENG 282) Instructor
Bertholf
African American Literature from the 18th and 19th centuries.
Satisfies a requirement in the Africana Studies major (Geographic Region: North America).
Satisfies the diversity requirement of the English major.
Counts as an elective in the Global Literary Theory interdisciplinary minor.
Satisfies the Literary Studies, Creative Writing, and Rhetoric distribution requirement.
Satisfies the cultural diversity requirement.
|
|
-
AFR 286 - African American Literature: 1900- (=ENG 286) Instructor
Bertholf
This course will introduce students to twentieth- and twenty-first century African American literature and literary criticism. It will bring together a wide range of readings from across genres and disciplines, attempting to sketch out the major aesthetic and political features of the black literary project. Authors will include Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, Alain Locke, Claude McKay, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Amiri Baraka, Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, Samuel R. Delany, Octavia Butler, Teju Cole, Claudia Rankine, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Fred Moten, and Colson Whitehead to name a few.
Satisfies the diversity requirement of the English major.
Counts as a humanities elective in the Africana Studies major.
Counts as an elective in the Global Literary Theory interdisciplinary minor.
Satisfies the Literary Studies, Creative Writing, and Rhetoric distribution requirement.
Satisfies a cultural diversity requirement.
|
|
-
AFR 292 - “Fake News,” Journalism and Ethics Instructor
Bailey
Students will be taught how to use journalistic skills and ethics to better harness the power empathy adds to storytelling on extremely sensitive subjects such as race, politics, gender, etc. as well as learn how to navigate the world of political punditry and the growing fake news phenomenon. The course will focus on how the media discourse marginalizes people of color, and African Americans in particular and how rhetorical shifts can lead to non-factual news reporting.
Satisfies a requirement in the Africana Studies major (Geographic Region: North America).
Satisfies a requirement in the English major.
Satisfies a requirement in the Communication Studies interdisciplinary minor.
Satisfies the Justice, Equality, and Community Requirement.
|
|
-
AFR 297 - Caribbean Literature (=ENG 297) Instructor
Flanagan
The Caribbean is key to any understanding of the New World. Caribbean Literature takes students beyond the islands’ popular music, food, and landscapes to an understanding of the formation of cultures from Europe, Africa, and India that have produced two Nobel Laureates. In novels such as Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea, we see how love leads to the death of a young woman in the attic in Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre. We’ll understand, too, why and how Aime Cesaire rewrites Shakespeare’s The Tempest to allow for the resurrection of the spirit of Caliban’s mother, Sycorax. Students do not need to know theory to take this course.
Students may retake this course for credit when the topic/readings change with instructor’s permission.
Satisfies the diversity requirement of the English major.
Satisfies a requirement in the Africana Studies major (Geographic Region: Latin America/Caribbean).
Satisfies a requirement in the Global Literary Theory interdisciplinary minor.
Satisfies the Literary Studies, Creative Writing, and Rhetoric distribution requirement.
Satisfies the cultural diversity requirement.
|
|
-
AFR 298 - Race and American Journalism Instructor
Bailey
We know the names Trayvon Martin, Sandra Bland and Tamir Rice. But we should also know the name Damon Kearns, a young black man born in Davidson who killed the only officer to die while on duty in the town - while being killed by the officer. This class will include an exhaustive look into the 20th anniversary of Kearns’ death as a way of exploring larger issues of race in American journalism. This local case study will help to illumine a myriad of lessons for young journalists and social justice warriors on the intersection of race, media, crime and inequality in the 21st century, including many that are often misunderstood or overlooked.
Satisfies a requirement in the Africana Studies major (Geographic Region: North America).
Satisfies the Diversity requirement in the English major.
Satisfies a requirement in the Communication Studies interdisciplinary minor.
Satisfies the Justice, Equality, and Community requirement.
|
|
-
AFR 300 - Afro-Cuban Feminisms (=LAS 300) Instructor
Benson
Black and mulata women have participated in constructing Cubanidad (Cuban nationalism) since the beginning of the Cuban republic in 1902. However, the largely male-dominated national narrative that has made Che Guevara’s “New Man” famous since 1959 frequently overshadows their interventions. Despite this public silence, Afro-Cubanas (Afro-Cuban women) have consistently challenged narratives of exclusion and contributed to antiracist and antisexist movements in Cuba. As theater critic, Inés María Martiatu Terry explained in 2011 one of the goals of the Afrocubanas movement is to “feminize negritude and to blacken feminism.”
This course will analyze Afro-Cubana feminisms through a close reading of the work of four key black and mulata intellectuals and activists-Sara Gómez, Nancy Morejón, Daisy Rubiera, and Gloria Rolando. In doing so, it seeks to trace the legacy of the many black and mulata women who participated in revolutionary Cuba from the 1960s to the present. In particular, the course will examine how Afro-Cubanas have challenged negative stereotypes about black women, worked both inside and outside of Cuba’s state-sponsored women’s movement, and fought to create space for racial and sexual rights. All course readings will be in English and will include memoirs, films, and first-hand historical documents in additional to scholarly books and articles.
Satisfies a major requirement in Africana Studies.
Satisfies a major requirement in Latin American Studies.
Satisfies the Histories and Genealogies major requirement in Gender and Sexuality Studies.
|
|
-
AFR 300-309 - Major Thinkers in Africana Studies Major Thinkers in Africana Studies courses expose students to classical and foundational figures whose works have helped to shape the disciplinary debates, theoretical contours, or methodological innovations of the field. These seminars are designed to engage larger conceptual issues in Africana Studies through the close study of the written corpus of a major thinker in the discipline. It is a topics course in intellectual history that enables students to gain competency in primary, secondary, biographical, theoretical, and/or literary works related to a single scholarly figure in Africana Studies. Courses will draw upon notable scholars in both the African and African Diaspora intellectual traditions.
|
|
-
AFR 300B - Black Esthetics & Performance Instructor
Amin
This course will examine the development of the Black Aesthetic from its genesis in the 1920s, through the Black Arts Movement and into the contemporary period. Students will examine primary source documents and artistic/ creative expressions from a range of disciplines (including dance, music, literature and visual art) to identify Black performance/ expressive aesthetics and to engage art as a mechanism through which culture, politics and identity may speak.
|
|
-
AFR 302 - Black Aesthetics & Performance Instructor
Amin
This course will examine the development of the Black Aesthetic from its genesis in the 1920s, through the Black Arts Movement and into the contemporary period. Students will examine primary source documents and artistic/creative expressions from a range of disciplines (including dance, music, literature and visual art) to identify Black performance/expressive aesthetics and to engage art as a mechanism through which culture, politics and identity may speak.
Satisfies a requirement in the Africana Studies major (Geographic Region = North America).
|
|
-
AFR 303 - Major Thinkers in Africana Studies: W.E.B. Du Bois (=ENG 382) Instructor
Bertholf
This course will introduce students to the major works of William Edward Burghardt Du Bois. Readings will include (in chronological order): The Philadelphia Negro (1899); The Souls of Black Folk (1903); Dark Princess (1928); Black Reconstruction in America (1935); Color and Democracy (1945); and The World and Africa (1947) to name a few. They will be supplemented with secondary readings by: Booker T. Washington, Michael Rudolph West, Cheryl Townsend Gilkes, Hazel Carby, Paul Gilroy, Adolph Reed, Lewis Gordon, Marina Bilbija, C. L. R. James and others.
Satisfies a requirement in Africana Studies.
Satisfies a major requirement in English.
Satisfies an interdisciplinary minor requirement in Global Literary Theory.
Satisfies the Justice, Equality, and Community requirement
|
|
-
AFR 320 - Growing up Jim Crow (= EDU 320, SOC 320) Instructor
Kelly
Examines how a generation learned race and racism in the Age of Jim Crow. Through multiple and intersecting lenses, students will examine texts, such as oral histories, literary narratives, and visual representations of various topics. Topics will include Jim Crow schooling, white supremacy, disenfranchisement, lynching, rape, resistance, interracial harmony, and desegregation.
Satisfies a requirement in the Sociology major.
Satisfies a requirement in the Africana Studies major (Geographic Region: North America).
Satisfies a requirement in the Educational Studies minor.
Satisfies the Historical Thought distribution requirement.
Satisfies the Justice, Equality, and Community requirement.
|
|
|
|
-
AFR 360 - History of the Caribbean: Race, Nation, and Politics (= LAS 360, HIS 360) Instructor
Benson
This course explores the history of the Caribbean from pre-Colombian times to the present. The goal of the class is to trace the emergence of modern Caribbean nations beginning from their status as slave colonies of the not-so-distant past within an emphasis on the central role the Caribbean islands have played in global history. Particular emphasis is given to the maintenance of European and North American imperial enterprises and the elaboration of racial ideologies growing out of the diversity that has characterized the island populations. Issues to be addressed include colonialism, piracy, sugar revolution, slavery and emancipation, national independence, tourism, and Caribbean migrations. Cuba, Haiti, and Jamaica will be the main areas under consideration, although texts from other islands such as the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, and Martinique are included.
Satisfies a requirement in the Africana Studies major (Geographic Region: Latin America/Caribbean).
Satisfies a requirement in Latin American Studies major and minor.
Satisfies a requirement in the History major or minor.
Satisfies the Historical Thought distribution requirement.
Satisfies the cultural diversity requirement.
|
|
-
AFR 364 - Black Paris Instructor
Fache
Black Paris focuses on the deep engagement of peoples of African descent with the City of Light from Fredrick Douglass to Ta-Nehisi Coates. We will examine the full variety of black cultures that have taken shape in dialogue with Paris, including poetry, prose, journals and magazines, music, and film in English and French by African American (J. Baldwin, Richard Wright, etc.) as well as Francophone Caribbean (F. Fanon, A. Césaire) and African (A. Mabanckou, Manu Dibango) artists and intellectuals.
Satisfies a requirement in Africana Studies major (Geographic Region: North America).
Satisfies an interdisciplinary minor requirement in Global Literary Theory.
Satisfies a Literary Studies, Creative Writing, and Rhetoric distribution requirement.
Satisfies a cultural diversity requirement.
|
|
-
AFR 371 - Critical Race Theory in Education (=EDU 371) Instructor
Kelly
This course introduces students to the development of critical race theory as a specific theoretical framework to explain or to investigate how race and racism are organized and operate within the United States. The course will have a sociological focus with emphasis on critical race scholarship that includes, but is not limited to, an analysis of double consciousness, colorblindness, intersectionality, whiteness as property, racial microaggressions, and structures of power. Students will also explore central tenets and key writings advanced in the 1990s primarily by African American, Latino/a, and Asian American scholars in law, education, and public policy. The course is both reading intensive and extensive with a major writing assignment that addresses a theoretical problem that grows out of the course topics and discussions.
Satisfies a requirement in the Africana Studies major (Geographic Region: North America).
Satisfies a minor requirement in Educational Studies.
Satisfies the Social-Scientific Thought distribution requirement.
|
|
-
AFR 383 - Black Literary Theory (=ENG 483) Instructor
Bertholf
(Cross-listed with ENG 483)
This course will bring together readings both literary and critical/theoretical, beginning with Frantz Fanon’s seminal Black Skin, White Masks (1952). Taking Fanon as its point of departure, then, this course will necessarily turn to a discussion of the recent discourse on Afro-pessimism and black optimism, attempting to introduce students to important issues and questions of race, race relations, anti-black racism, black sociality, the universality of whiteness, the fungibility of the black body, and of the vulnerability and precarity of black life; and together we will think more closely about how the complex and “unthinkable” histories of slavery, colonialism, and the Middle Passage, for examples, continue to challenge the representational limits and potentialities of traditional literary genres and modes of emplotment. In addition to Fanon, authors will include Orlando Patterson, Toni Morrison, Hortense Spillers, Saidiya Hartman, Frank Wilderson, Jared Sexton, and Fred Moten.
Counts as a humanities elective for the Africana Studies major.
Counts as a senior seminar and fulfills the diversity requirement for the English major.
Counts as a literature elective for the Global Literary Theory interdisciplinary minor.
Satisfies the cultural diversity requirement.
|
|
-
AFR 395 - Seminar in Africana Studies Seminar in advanced Africana Studies
|
|
|
|
-
AFR 498 - Advanced Independent Study Africana Studies: Advanced Independent Study
|
|
-
AFR 499 - Honors Thesis Africana Studies: Honors Thesis
|
Anthropology |
|
-
ANT 101 - Introductory Cultural Anthropology Instructor
Staff
Cross-cultural study of systems of knowledge and belief, social and political institutions, economic behavior, and human ecological adaptation. Anthropological approaches to traditional tribal and peasant societies as well as complex contemporary societies.
Required course for the major in Anthropology.
Satisfies a requirement for the minor in Anthropology.
Satisfies the Social-Scientific Thought distribution requirement.
Prerequisites & Notes (Fall and Spring)
|
|
|
|
|
|
-
ANT 205 - Ethnic Relations and Social Media Instructor
Bowles
Comparative and historical study of social processes related to ethnic differences in modern complex societies. Readings in theoretical and descriptive literature, focusing on issues of unequal distribution of power and privilege, racism, and ethnic prejudice.
Satisfies a major & minor requirement in Anthropology.
Satisfies the Social-Scientific Thought distribution requirement.
Satisfies the Justice, Equality, and Community requirement.
Prerequisites & Notes (Offered in alternating years.)
|
|
-
ANT 207 - Foragers, Farmers, and Chiefs of the Ancient World Instructor
Ringle
The development of human society from the late Ice Age through complex agricultural communities. Topics include hunting and gathering, post-glacial adaptation, world colonization, causes and consequences of agriculture, and the rise of social inequality. Examples include the Near East, Europe, North America, and Polynesia.
Satisfies a major & minor requirement in Anthropology.
Satisfies the Historical Thought distribution requirement.
Satisfies depth and breadth course requirement in the Social Science track of the Environmental Studies major or interdisciplinary minor.
Prerequisites & Notes (Spring; offered in alternating years.)
|
|
|
|
-
ANT 219 - Reproduction and Childrearing: Biology and Culture An overview of the anthropology of pregnancy, childbirth, and childrearing. Topics addressed include fertility and infertility (female and male), maternal and child healthcare systems, infant feeding, and motherhood, fatherhood, and childhood in cross-cultural and historical perspective.
Satisfies a major & minor requirement in Anthropology.
Satisfies a distribution requirement in Social-Scientific Thought
Satisfies a major & minor requirement in Gender and Sexuality Studies
Meets the cultural diversity graduation requirement
Prerequisites & Notes (Not offered 2016-2017)
|
|
|
|
-
ANT 227 - Environment and Culture in Latin America Instructor
Samson
This course addresses human-environment relations in Latin America from the standpoint of environmental history and ethnographic case studies in the region. Issues such as biodiversity, land use and agriculture, transnational flows of natural and food resources, ethnoecology, and social mobilization around environmental issues are examined using theoretical perspectives from cultural and political ecology. Particular attention is given to the relationship between indigenous peoples and the environment and to alternative models of “development” in Mesoamerica, the Andes, and Brazil.
Satisfies a major & minor requirement in Anthropology.
Satisfies the Liberal Studies distribution requirement.
Satisfies depth and breadth course requirement in the Social Science track of the Environmental Studies major or interdisciplinary minor.
Prerequisites & Notes (Spring; offered alternating years.)
|
|
|
|
-
ANT 233 - Performance in West Africa Instructor
Amin
This course will examine performance aesthetics and traditions from various West African Cultures and contexts. Special consideration will be given to how these approaches to music and dance shape in particular inform the diasporic cultural practices of Afro-descended people in the US and Caribbean.
Satisfies a requirement in the Anthropology major and minor.
Satisfies a requirement in the Africana Studies major (Geographic Region: Africa).
Satisfies the Visual and Performing Arts requirement.
Satisfies the cultural diversity requirement
|
|
-
ANT 234 - African Popular Culture Instructor
Bowles
Though ethnographic texts, this course explores the intersections of gender, ethnicity and class in African societies in the 20th and 21st centuries. This course also examines representations of Africa within the nation-state and transnationally. Topics of discussion include tourism, national identity and ethnicity, popular culture, the dichotomies of urban and rural Africa and the cultural politics of development and the state.
Satisfies a major & minor requirement in Anthropology.
Fulfills a requirement in the Africana Studies major (Geographic Region: Africa).
Satisfies the Social-Scientific Thought distribution requirement.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
-
ANT 261 - Science, Policy, and Society Instructor
Lozada
Inquiry into the production and cultural meanings of scientific knowledge and technological change. Comparison of the function and rhetoric of scientific “truths” to other modes of truth-production, such as religion, and its application in policy. Topics include the conflict and dialogue between science and religion, rationality, the practice of science, environmental issues, and social change.
Satisfies a major & minor requirement in Anthropology.
Satisfies the Social-Scientific Thought distribution requirement.
Satisfies depth and breadth course requirement in the Social Science track of the Environmental Studies major or interdisciplinary minor.
Prerequisites & Notes (Fall; offered in alternating years.)
|
|
-
ANT 263 - Social Change Instructor
Ruhlen
This course examines issues in social activism from both a theoretical and ethnographic perspective. How do social activists think about and make social change happen? By examining theories and issues in social justice, from macro-level issues in the international arena to local mobilization for community issues, this course will introduce students to social movement and civil society theory. This course will study social movements, community activism, and the cultural practices of community groups.
Satisfies a major & minor requirement in Anthropology.
Satisfies the Social-Scientific Thought distribution requirement.
Prerequisites & Notes (Not offered 2016-2017.)
|
|
|
|
-
ANT 267 - Food and Culture Instructor
Lozada
This course introduces the ways in which food practices shape societies and cultures throughout the world. Food ways will be examined from an anthropological perspective for their social and cultural implications; this is not a survey of nutritional or dietetic sciences. Topics to be covered include: the use of food in social contexts, the symbolism of food, and the political economy of food.
Satisfies a major & minor requirement in Anthropology.
Satisfies the Social-Scientific Thought distribution requirement.
Satisfies depth and breadth course requirement in the Social Science track of the Environmental Studies major or interdisciplinary minor.
Prerequisites & Notes (Not offered 2016-2017; offered in alternating years.)
|
|
-
ANT 271 - Human Ecology Instructor
Cho
Human biological variation among and within living populations. Evolutionary, genetic, ecological, demographic, and especially cultural factors that contribute to biological variation are explored. Topics include biological adaptations to hot/cold climates, high altitudes, and lactose intolerance, among others.
Satisfies a major & minor requirement in Anthropology.
Satisfies the Social-Scientific Thought distribution requirement.
Satisfies depth and breadth course requirement in the Social Science track of the Environmental Studies major or interdisciplinary minor.
Prerequisites & Notes (Offered in alternating years.)
|
|
-
ANT 272 - Forensic Anthropology Instructor
Cho
The application of the techniques used in biological anthropology to the law. Various topics and methodologies related to the identification of human skeletal remains, including the excavation of human remains, estimation of age-at-death and sex, trauma analysis, cause and manner of death, and mass disasters are introduced.
Satisfies a major & minor requirement in Anthropology.
Satisfies the Liberal Studies distribution requirement.
Prerequisites & Notes (Not offered 2016-2017; offered in alternating years.)
|
|
-
ANT 273 - Bioarchaeology Instructor
Cho
The study of human and non-human remains from archaeological sites to reconstruct past human behavior and biology, and their environmental and cultural conditions. Topics include human skeletal indicators of diet, activity level, and disease, and faunal skeletal indicators of ancient human behavior, such as hunting and paleoecology.
Satisfies a major & minor requirement in Anthropology.
Satisfies the Historical Thought distribution requirement.
Satisfies depth (not breadth) course requirement in the Natural Science and Social Science tracks of the Environment Studies major.
Prerequisites & Notes (Spring; offered in alternating years.)
|
|
-
ANT 275 - Monkeys, Apes, Humans Instructor
Cho
Examination of the anatomy and social behavior of living primates. To better understand the human species, we will examine topics such as infanticide, mating systems, intelligence, locomotion, concealed ovulation, menopause, and extensive culture.
Satisfies a major & minor requirement in Anthropology.
Satisfies the Liberal Studies distribution requirement.
Prerequisites & Notes (Offered in alternating years.)
|
|
-
ANT 290 - Ethnographic East Asia Instructor
Ruhlen
This course introduces students to the major themes in the anthropology of China, Japan, South Korea, and North Korea. Through studying recent transformations in kinship, political economy, constructions of gender, and national identities, students will also gain a basic grounding in the geography and twentieth-century history of the region as a whole.
Satisfies a major & minor requirement in Anthropology.
Satisfies the Social-Scientific Thought distribution requirement.
Prerequisites & Notes (Fall)
|
|
-
ANT 291 - Social Networks & Social Media Instructor
Lozada
This course introduces students to the theories and methods necessary for doing research in digital anthropology. Digital anthropology is the study of the impact of information technology on social relationships and human culture. Because of advancements in information and communication technology (as well as globalization), the everyday life of the people and communities that we study are increasingly being shaped by cyberspace, digital media and communication, and online social groups. Throughout the semester, students will conduct fieldwork, communicate, and write commentary on the internet, including social media, websites, and digital media production. Emphasis is placed on developing the critical and methodological skills needed for doing fieldwork virtually, but no previous computer programming is expected or required.
Satisfies a major & minor requirement in Anthropology.
Satisfies a requirement in the Data Science interdisciplinary minor.
Satisfies the Social-Scientific Thought distribution requirement.
Prerequisites & Notes (Offered in alternating years)
|
|
-
ANT 310 - Politics, Society, and Culture Instructor
Ruhlen
Examines authority, organization, power, and legitimization of authority using a comparative perspective. Community-based learning model facilitates exploration of environmental justice and grassroots change with an emphasis on the symbolic aspects of power, structural inequity, and social movements.
Satisfies a major & minor requirement in Anthropology.
Satisfies the Social-Scientific Thought distribution requirement.
Satisfies depth and breadth course requirement in the Social Science track of the Environmental Studies major or interdisciplinary minor.
Prerequisites & Notes (Offered in alternating years.)
|
|
-
ANT 319 - Contradictions in Contemporary Motherhood: Culture, Biomedicine, Political Economy Instructor
Ruhlen
Contemporary mothering happens at the crossroads of conflicting forces and discourses. This seminar frames motherhood as a window on women’s changing rights and status, and as a fruitful topic for feminist theorizing. Readings will situate the topic in its historical, rhetorical, and cross-cultural contexts and will also explore the globalized networks of migration that increasingly affect motherhood.
Satisfies a major & minor requirement in Anthropology.
Satisfies the Social-Scientific Thought distribution requirement.
Prerequisites & Notes (Spring)
|
|
-
ANT 321 - Borderlands, Identity, and Rights Instructor
Samson
Advanced study of how borders and borderland regions shape social, religious, political, and economic relationships in Latin America, and examination of the tensions created when people and resources cross cultural and political borders. Particular emphasis on Mexico and Central America, as well as the Latino experience in the United States.
Satisfies a major & minor requirement in Anthropology.
Satisfies the Social-Scientific Thought distribution requirement.
|
|
-
ANT 323 - Human Rights in Latin America Instructor
Samson
Anthropological perspectives on human rights agendas in Latin America. Case studies examine the tension between universal and culturally relative conceptions of human rights in relation to issues such as state violence, violence directed toward minorities, and social justice movements.
Satisfies a major & minor requirement in Anthropology.
Satisfies a requirement in the Africana Studies major (Geographic Region: Latin America/Caribbean).
Satisfies the Social-Scientific Thought distribution requirement.
Satisfies the Justice, Equality, and Community requirement.
Prerequisites & Notes (Fall; offered in alternating years.)
|
|
-
ANT 325 - Environment, Economy, & Culture Instructor
Samson
Cultural perspectives on human-environment relations and linkages between the environment and the global economy. Special emphasis on the integration of current knowledge in ecological anthropology, economic production, and the impact of human activity on the environment. Environmental justice issues and proposals for sustainable development are included.
Satisfies a major & minor requirement in Anthropology.
Satisfies the Social-Scientific Thought distribution requirement.
Satisfies depth and breadth course requirement in the Social Science track of the Environmental Studies major or interdisciplinary minor.
Prerequisites & Notes (Not offered 2016-2017; offered in alternating years.)
|
|
-
ANT 327 - Religious Pluralism in Twenty-first Century Latin America Instructor
Samson
The emphasis in this course is on the contemporary religious pluralism that has resulted from the encounter of the Old World with the New. Religious change in Latin America since Vatican II and the advent of liberation theology is examined alongside the burgeoning presence of Protestantism in the region during the last quarter of the twentieth century. Particular attention is given to indigenous and Afro-Latin American traditions. Case studies in the course are selected for their use of ethnographic methods, and the geographic focus centers on the Andean region, Mesoamerica, Brazil, and the Caribbean.
Satisfies a major & minor requirement in Anthropology.
Satisfies the Philosophical and Religious Perspectives distribution requirement.
Prerequisites & Notes (Not offered 2016-2017.)
|
|
-
ANT 335 - Debunking Race Instructor
Cho
Examines the concept of race from a biocultural perspective, deconstructing race by exploring evidence from population genetics and human origins. Contemporary racial issues such as classification of racial/ethnic groups, and evaluating intelligence and achievement on the basis of race/ethnicity are explored.
Satisfies a major & minor requirement in Anthropology.
Satisfies the Social-Scientific Thought distribution requirement.
Satisfies the Justice, Equality, and Community requirement.
Prerequisites & Notes (Spring; offered in alternating years.)
|
|
|
|
|
|
-
ANT 343 - Feminist Anthropology Instructor
Bowles
Explores how gender ideologies shape the exercise of power upon men and women in different societies and cultures. Topics include the construction of masculinity and femininity, commodification and consumption of gender, social position, agency, and the political economy of gender. Emphasis on developing an understanding of different theoretical perspectives in the cross-cultural study of gender.
Satisfies a major & minor requirement in Anthropology.
Satisfies a major & minor requirement in Gender and Sexuality Studies
Satisfies the Social-Scientific Thought distribution requirement.
Prerequisites & Notes (Offered in alternating years.)
|
|
-
ANT 351 - The Senses and Sensualities Instructor
Bowles
Guided by the premise that the body mediates human understanding about the world, this seminar examines anthropological investigations about the cultural production of the senses (sight, touch, taste, hearing and smell). The readings for the course focus on the diverse ways the senses are organized across cultures and shaped by context, language, identity and society. Students will have an opportunity engage in various sensory related projects through the semester.
Satisfies a major & minor requirement in Anthropology.
Satisfies the Social-Scientific Thought distribution requirement.
|
|
|
|
|
|
-
ANT 357 - Language Before History Instructor
Ringle
This course considers three questions concerning the early history of language: 1) at what stage of human evolution did language appear; 2) what were the reasons behind the spread of the major language families; 3) when and where did literacy first develop and under what circumstances.
Satisfies a major & minor requirement in Anthropology.
Satisfies the Liberal Studies distribution requirement.
Prerequisites & Notes (Not offered 2016-2017; offered in alternating years.)
|
|
-
ANT 360 - Anthropology of Development and Environmental Sustainability Instructor
Samson
Issues of development and sustainability from the standpoint of environmental anthropology and anthropological approaches to development theory. Considers the human face of development, including local and global scales of analysis, environmental justice, and discourses of community sustainability.
Satisfies a major & minor requirement in Anthropology.
Satisfies the Social-Scientific Thought distribution requirement.
Satisfies depth and breadth course requirement in the Social Science track of the Environmental Studies major or interdisciplinary minor.
Prerequisites & Notes (Not offered 2016-2017; offered in alternating years.)
|
|
-
ANT 370 - Theory in Anthropology Instructor
Samson
Theoretical and interpretive perspectives in modern cultural anthropology. Issues include functionalism, historical analysis, cultural evolution, ecology, cultural materialism, structuralism, and symbolic analysis. Writings of major thinkers, including Radcliffe-Brown, Harris, Levi-Strauss, Douglas, Geertz, Turner, Godelier, and Sahlins.
One of the courses satisfying the Theory requirement for the major in Anthropology.
Satisfies the Social-Scientific Thought distribution requirement.
Prerequisites & Notes ANT 101 or permission of the instructor. (Fall)
|
|
-
ANT 371 - Ethnographic Writing and Research Instructor
Samson
Approaches to ethnographic and ethnohistorical research and analysis in cultural anthropology. Examination of selected studies that demonstrate a variety of approaches to the study of single cultures and to cross-cultural comparisons. Students design and complete research projects. With advance departmental approval, an off-campus ethnographic field school course may be substituted for credit toward the major.
One of the courses satisfying the Methods requirement for the major and minor in Anthropology.
Prerequisites & Notes ANT 101 or permission of the instructor. (Spring)
|
|
-
ANT 372 - Visualizing Anthropology Instructor
Lozada
Introduction to the theories and methods necessary for making ethnographic films. Students will conduct fieldwork and make a documentary film on a particular aspect of social and cultural behavior. Emphasis is placed on developing the critical skills needed for resolving some of the ethical, technical, and aesthetic problems that may emerge during the documentation of social and cultural behavior.
One of the courses satisfying the Methods requirement for the major and minor in Anthropology.
Prerequisites & Notes (Offered in alternating years.)
|
|
-
ANT 373 - Decolonizing Anthropology Theory Instructor
Bowles
This course examines the theoretical and interpretive perspectives of contemporary anthropologists outside of the US and Europe. Disciplinary issues such as the “crises of representation” alongside the decolonization of the Global South will be explored. Writings that explore the tensions between the universal and particular, theory and practice, power and knowledge and the limits of objectivity and subjectivity will also be discussed.
One of the courses satisfying the Theory requirement for the major in Anthropology.
Satisfies the Social-Scientific Thought distribution requirement.
Satisfies the Justice, Equality, and Community requirement.
Prerequisites & Notes ANT 101 or permission of the instructor.
|
|
-
ANT 374 - Methods in Forensic Anthropology Instructor
Cho
This course concerns forensic taphonomy, the study of postmortem and postdepositional processes that occur in human and non-human animals in the medicolegal context. Students will design research projects on the decomposition process in piglets, and learn to collect, analyze, interpret, and present data.
One of the courses satisfying the Methods requirement for the major and minor in Anthropology.
Satisfies the Liberal Studies distribution requirement.
Prerequisites & Notes (Offered in alternating years.)
|
|
-
ANT 375 - Human Osteology Instructor
Cho
Identification of bones in the human skeleton and basic skeletal biology. Osteological methods and analyses applicable to bioarchaelogy and forensic anthropology are introduced.
One of the courses satisfying the Methods requirement for the major and minor in Anthropology.
Satisfies the Liberal Studies distribution requirement.
Prerequisites & Notes (Spring; offered in alternating years.)
|
|
-
ANT 376 - Comparative Skeletal Anatomy and Function Inxtructor
Cho
A comparative study of animals in various taxa, including humans, and the reconstruction of diet, locomotion, and evolutionary history from skeletal anatomy. Applications in paleoanthropology, primatology, zoology, and biomechanics.
One of the courses satisfying the Methods requirement for the major and minor in Anthropology.
Satisfies the Liberal Studies distribution requirement.
Prerequisites & Notes (Not offered 2016-2017; offered in alternating years.)
|
|
|
|
|
|
-
ANT 381 - Seminar in Anthropology: Traditional Asian Medical Systems Instructor
Cho
Although biomedicine is the most popular medical system in the world due to globalization, modernization, and Western cultural and political hegemony, aspects of Asian medical systems will continue to influence and gain popularity in developed nations. Acupuncture, herbal medicine, shamans, chi, Buddhist monks, and holistic care are common conceptions of Asian medical systems. However, the geographic area regarded as Asia is vast and diverse, as are its peoples and their practices. This course explores the various medical systems in the Asian continent and the health and illness etiology, and diagnostic and treatment methodologies within each system and within the context of other social institutions and history. The format of the course is mainly class discussion.
|
|
-
ANT 382 - Seminars in Anthropology: Renewable Natural Resources: Science & Policy (= BIO 366, ENV 366) Instructors
Lozada, Paradise
This interdisciplinary seminar course focuses on developing a scientific understanding of renewable natural resources such as fisheries and forests and how resources are then used, overused, managed, and conserved by humans. The course primarily consider smodern methods of resource management, including adaptive and ecosystem-based management. The course builds upon knowledge gained in the foundation courses of Anthropology, Biology, or Environmental Studies. It addresses natural resource and environmental issues from ecosystem and policy perspectives. Through case studies, readings, class discussions, and knowledge construction, students gain deep knowledge of ecosystem ecology and management policies and approaches. Students then apply their knowledge to identify management principles that are consistent with a more holistic ecosystem approach and develop a case study of one natural resource and how it is managed.
Satisfies depth or breadth course requirement in Natural or Social Science track of the Environmental Studies major or interdisciplinary minor or the breadth requirement of the Humanities track.
Satisfies a major & minor requirement in Anthropology.
Prerequisites & Notes Successful completion of BIO 112/114, ANT 101, ENV 201, or ENV 202 is required.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
-
ANT 490 - Senior Colloquium in Anthropology Instructor
Staff
Advanced seminar required of all senior majors, exploring in depth an anthropological issue of critical importance. Students choose a topic related to this issue and prepare seminar presentations and a major research paper.
Required course for the major in Anthropology.
Prerequisites & Notes Limited to senior majors and minors. (Fall)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Arabic |
|
-
ARB 101 - Elementary Arabic I (Sections A & B) Instructor
Botros or Joubin
Elementary Arabic I, the fall semester of a year-long intensive course in first year Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), is designed for students with no previous exposure to the language. From the first semester of the course, there is a focus on gaining a strong foundation in the communicative skills of listening and speaking, as well as reading and writing. While the concentration is on Classical Arabic, there will be exposure to dialect through proverbs and music. Student participation and group activities encouraging conversation are vital to the course. Attendance at two AT (drill) sessions each week is required.
Prerequisites & Notes (Fall)
|
|
-
ARB 102 - Elementary Arabic II (Sections A & B) Instructor
Botros or Joubin
In Elementary Arabic II, a continuation of Elementary Arabic I, we continue to develop the communicative skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Students are further introduced to authentic texts from the Arab world. Presentations and group activities encouraging conversation are essential to the course. The course is conducted entirely in Arabic. Attendance at two AT (drill) sessions each week is required.
Prerequisites & Notes ARB 101 at Davidson or passing placement exam. (Spring)
|
|
-
ARB 201 - Intermediate Arabic I Instructor
Botros
Intermediate Arabic 201, the fall semester of a year-long intensive intermediate course in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), is designed for students who have had one year of Arabic at the college level. Authentic supplementary reading material is introduced, with a focus on popular stories filled with wise sayings known throughout the Arab world. Discussion and presentations are centered on this material, which exposes students to important cultural elements of the Arab world. The course is conducted entirely in Arabic. Attendance at two AT (drill) sessions each week is required.
Prerequisites & Notes ARB 102 or placement. (Fall)
|
|
|
|
-
ARB 240 - Accelerated Persian for Arabic Speakers Instructor
Joubin
Accelerated Persian for Arabic Speakers is a one semester course for students who have already completed ARB 101. Because the Persian and Arabic languages share the same alphabet, on the first day of class students will be introduced to the few additional letters present in Persian. By the next class period, we will begin to focus on sentence structure, verb conjugation, and vocabulary building. Elementary Persian books often state that one of the main challenges of Persian is vocabulary building. However, students of Arabic will not find this to be the case. Arabic and Persian share about sixty per cent similar vocabulary and thus our class will progress at a rapid speed due to the Arabic language background that all students will have. It is expected that both languages will complement the other. Pre-requisite: Arabic 101 (Fall)
Satisfies a major requirement in the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies’ Arab Studies major
Satisfies a minor requirement in Arab Studies
Satisfies an interdisciplinary minor requirement in Middle Eastern Studies
Satisfies an advanced Arabic course requirement.
|
|
-
ARB 250 - Gender and Sexuality in the Middle East Instructor
Joubin
The objective of the course is to attain an interdisciplinary approach to the study of gender and sexuality in the Middle East. During the past few decades Middle East Gender studies has expanded rapidly, and this course will introduce students to the milestone monographs that established the field. From a focus on women as a category of analysis, to gender and masculinity studies, the field has expanded rapidly. This course examines gender as a category of analysis and focuses on productions of knowledge of sexual difference in Middle East society. We will examine the implication of modernity on men and women in the Middle East, following scholarship that does not adhere to the tradition versus modernity dichotomy, and we will pay particular attention to studies that examine the ambiguity of modernity. The intersection of nationalist and gendered discourse is among the themes this course will focus on. This course is conducted in English.
Satisfies a major requirement in Center for Interdisciplinary Studies major in Arab Studies and in Gender and Sexuality Studies.
Satisfies a minor requirement in Arab Studies and in Gender and Sexuality Studies.
Satisfies a distribution requirement in Literary Studies, Creative Writing, and Rhetoric.
Satisfies an interdisciplinary minor requirement in International Studies and in Middle East Studies.
Prerequisites & Notes (Spring)
|
|
-
ARB 251 - Introduction to Arab Studies Instructor
Joubin
The objective of this course is to attain an interdisciplinary approach to Arab Studies. Students will be introduced to key monographs in the field of Arab Studies, and study issues related to Orientalism as well as the more complicated narrative of the native informer. Various artistic forms from past and present will be studied to engage with this phenomenon. We will pay special attention to those works that overcome the troubling paradigm of native informer. By the end of the semester, students will be able to articulate the leading theories in Orientalism and postcolonial theory from an interdisciplinary perspective. (Course will be conducted in English)
Satisfies a major requirement for the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies major in Arab Studies
Satisfies a minor requirement in Arab Studies
Satisfies the Liberal Studies distribution requirement
Satisfies the Cultural Diversity requirement
|
|
-
ARB 295 - Studies in Arabic Culture Instructor
Joubin
Arabic 295, a one-semester course in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), is designed for students who have had two years of college level Arabic courses or the equivalent. The course, which is conducted entirely in Arabic, enhances the students’ understanding of Arabic culture and grammar through video clips, film, proverbs, television serials, music, and literature. Discussion and presentations are centered on this material. Class meets for one hour, three times per week. Conducted in Arabic.
|
|
-
ARB 321 - Contemporary Arabic Literature Instructor
Joubin
Advanced readings of novels by contemporary Arab authors such as: Ilyas Khouri, Naguib Mahfouz, Abdel Rahman al-Munif, Salwa Bakr, Ghassan Kanafani, Tawfiq Hakim, and Hanan al-Shaykh. Discussion topics include: modernity, civil war in Lebanon, gender relations, changing relations between Middle East and West, social transformations after independence, and the plight of the Palestinians. Presentations and compositions in Arabic are among the requirements. Conducted in Arabic.
Satisfies a minor requirement in Arabic.
Satisfies the cultural diversity requirement.
Counts toward the Asian Studies Interdisciplinary Minor, the Middle East Studies interdisciplinary minor, the International Studies Interdisciplinary Minor (Middle East sections), and Communication Studies Interdisciplinary Minor.
Satisfies the Literary Studies, Creative Writing, and Rhetoric distribution requirements.
Prerequisites & Notes Arabic 202 or permission of instructor.
|
|
-
ARB 322 - Media in the Arab World Instructor
Botros
This course focuses on various forms of news media in the Arab world such as newspapers, magazines, television commercials, video clips, television serials, and news broadcasts. Discussion includes themes such as gender issues, globalization, the Palestinian crisis, reconstruction in Iraq, the rise of Islam, and education, as well as evaluation of cartoons, advertisements, comic strips, television serials, and films. Students are taught to analyze, criticize, and evaluate media images consciously. Presentations and compositions are among the requirements. Conducted in Arabic.
Satisfies a minor requirement in Arabic.
Satisfies the cultural diversity requirement.
Counts toward the Asian Studies Interdisciplinary Minor, the Middle East Studies interdisciplinary minor, the International Studies Interdisciplinary Minor (Middle East sections), and Communication Studies Interdisciplinary Minor.
Prerequisites & Notes Arabic 202 or permission of instructor. (Spring)
|
|
-
ARB 325 - Contemporary Syrian Television Drama Instructor
Joubin
In this course, we will examine contemporary Syrian television drama dealing with gender constructions, marriage metaphors, notions of honor and shame, and social discourse. We will study different trends in Syrian drama such as old Damascene tales, which seek a return to the past. We will also study progressive trends. A large portion of this course will focus on reading newspaper and magazine articles written by critics in response to these serials. Students will also watch televised interviews of directors and writers of television drama. The purpose of this will be for students to grasp the nature of the impact of television drama on Syrian society. Presentations and compositions are among the requirements. Course is conducted entirely in Arabic.
Satisfies a minor requirement in Arabic.
Satisfies the cultural diversity requirement.
Counts toward the Asian Studies Interdisciplinary Minor, the Middle East Studies interdisciplinary minor, the International Studies Interdisciplinary Minor (Middle East sections), and Communication Studies Interdisciplinary Minor.
Satisfies the Visual and Performing Arts distribution requirement.
Prerequisites & Notes ARB 202 or permission of instructor required.
|
|
|
|
-
ARB 327 - Mediating Conflict: Syrian Television Drama and Revolution Instructor
Joubin
Prior to the 2011 Revolution, by subtly deconstructing regime narratives, Syrian political parodies played a vital role in undermining the Asad regime while operating within a framework of government co-optation. Given the regime’s clamp down on oppositional writing, one would expect that Syrian drama would not have survived after the uprising. Yet, the contrary has been true. As the regime has created grand narratives to discount the revolution, drama creators have created storylines that expose hypocrisy and presented various sides of the conflict. In this course we will study miniseries from the commencement of the 2011 uprising, paying special attention to symbols and metaphors that have emerged in drama to serve as socio-political critique.
Satisfies a major requirement for the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies major in Arab Studies
Satisfies a minor requirement in Arab Studies
Satisfies the Visual and Performing Arts distribution requirement
Satisfies the Cultural Diversity requirement
Prerequisites & Notes (Fall)
|
|
-
ARB 328 - Gender & Sexuality in Syrian Television Drama Instructor
Joubin
In this course, which is conducted entirely in Arabic, we will study how many Syrian screenwriters involved in pre-uprising television drama managed to question the very foundation of regime legitimacy. We will study how prior to the 2011, in order to achieve the goal of prompting critique and change, Syrian television drama used the lens of gender and sexuality as a major trope. Since the 2011 uprising, moreover, screenwriters have become more explicit and less reliant on gender metaphors for critique and political engagement. Those screenwriters outwardly embracing the regime narrative eschew politics in their gender constructions and instead focus on reform of societal norms. Throughout the course, we will use Youtube clips to examine debates among cultural producers on the direction of Syrian television drama since the uprising.
Satisfies the Visual and Performing Arts requirement.
Satisfies a major requirement in Arab Studies through the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies.
Satisfies a minor requirement in Arab Studies.
Satisfies an interdisciplinary minor requirement in Middle East Studies.
Satisfies the cultural diversity requirement.
Prerequisites & Notes ARB 202 or permission of instructor.
|
|
-
ARB 331 - Arabic Media & Society Instructor
Botros
This course is intended to give students an idea of the central issues that the Arab media is interested in covering. As is well-known, a country’s media is considered to be the window that overlooks society’s concerns and thus it provides the people with the tools to raise awareness of these issues as well as provide alternatives and/or solutions. Examining the media enhances one’s understanding of the country’s culture, as well. Important issues will be examined related to women, youth, family, children, and portrayal of homosexuality in the media, as well as the impact of Turkish serials on the Arab media including Lebanon, Syria, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, Yemen, Tunisia, Bahrain, etc. Presentations and compositions are among the requirements. The course is conducted entirely in Arabic.
Satisfies a minor requirement in Arabic.
Satisfies the cultural diversity requirement.
Counts toward the Asian Studies Interdisciplinary Minor, the Middle East Studies interdisciplinary minor, the International Studies Interdisciplinary Minor (Middle East sections), and Communication Studies Interdisciplinary Minor.
Prerequisites & Notes ARB 202 or permission of instructor. (Spring)
|
|
-
ARB 335 - Contemporary Egyptian Society: Changes in Egyptian Society from 1950 to the Present Instructor
Botros
Contemporary Egyptian Society is a one semester course, designed for students with the equivalent of two years study of Arabic. This course will explore the cultural history of modern Egypt. Through the study of politics, religion, art, language, and culture, the course will concentrate on societal changes that have occurred in Egypt during the last fifty years and the challenges that remain. The course is conducted entirely in Arabic.
Satisfies a minor requirement in Arabic.
Satisfies the cultural diversity requirement.
Counts toward the Asian Studies Interdisciplinary Minor, the Middle East Studies interdisciplinary minor, the International Studies Interdisciplinary Minor (Middle East sections), and Communication Studies Interdisciplinary Minor.
Satisfies a Liberal Studies distribution requirement.
Prerequisites & Notes ARB 202 or permission of instructor.
|
|
Page: 1
| 2
| 3
| 4
| 5
| 6
| 7
| 8
| 9
| 10
| 11
… Forward 10 -> 16 |
|
|