The Culture and Communication concentration in Anthropology offers students a program of study focused on communicative practices across a diversity of world cultures, modalities of embodied discourse, and the technologically mediated channels that increasingly connect people around the globe. Work in this area ranges from the micro-scale of everyday dialogue to the transnational scale of commerce, migrations, politics, and development. The program prepares students to bring critical thinking and holistic conceptual tools to an increasingly globalized workplace. There, communicative practices vary across almost every conceivable dimension and attention to cultural differences can mean the difference between communication and miscommunication, justice and injustice, and even life and death. Culture and Communication introduces students to theoretical approaches from linguistic anthropology, cognitive anthropology, and other anthropological subfields. It builds on interdisciplinary ties that include sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, conversation analysis, exchange theory, art, media, and mediated discourse analysis. It thus prepares students to understand the impact of differing modes of expression, cultural styles, and interactional genres on the accomplishment of group tasks, the creation of human connections, and the building of a globally interconnected world.

Requirements:

1. Fulfill all non-elective requirements for the B.A. in Anthropology, including the Linguistic
Anthropology distribution requirement.
2. When choosing electives toward your Anthropology major, include a total of four, as
follows:
a. 2-4 classes from Culture and Communication Concentration Course List A
b. up to 2 classes from Culture and Communication Course List B

Course list

Indigenous Worlds Concentration Course List A

AMST 2233       Contemporary Native American Literature

AMST 3641       Native America

AMST 2231       Native Americans in Popular Culture

ANTH 1050       Anthropology of Globalization

ANTH 2120       The Culture Concept

ANTH 2250       Nationalism, Racism, and Multi-Culturalism

ANTH 2153       North American Indians

ANTH 2365       Art & Anthropology

ANTH 3152       Amazonian Peoples

ANTH 3450       Native American Languages

ANTH 3680       Anthropology of Australian Aboriginal Art

ANTH 5885       Archaeology of Colonialism

ANTH 9545       History, Modernity, Indigeneity

HIAF 3112         African Environmental History

HIST 3641         Native America

HIST 7021         Comparative Cultural Encounters in North America (1492-1800)

MDST 4301       Global Indigenous Media

Indigenous Worlds Concentration Course List B

AMST 2420       Cultural Landscapes in the United States

ANTH 2160       Culture and the Environment

ANTH 3100       Indigenous Landscapes

ANTH 3340       Ecology and Society

ANTH 3385       The Archeology of Europe

ANTH 3880       Archaeology of Africa

ANTH 3480       Language and Prehistory

ANTH 3490       Language and Thought

ANTH 5470       Language and Identity

ANTH 5475       Multi-Modal Interaction

ANTH 5220       Economic Anthropology

ANTH 5425       Language Contact

ANTH 5528       Topics in Race Theory

ARTH 1505        Art and Money

ARTH 4591        University Museum Internships

GSGS 3112        Ecology and Globalization in the Age of European Expansion

HILA 2001         Colonial Latin America

HIST 2112         Maps in World History

HIST 3011         Colonial Period in North America

MDST 3407       Racial Borders and American Cinema

MDST 3650       Shooting the Western

RELG 2210        Religion, Ethics, and Global Environments

RELG 3360        Conquest and Religions in the Americas, (1400s-1830s)