Undergraduate Courses (Meet Major Area Requirements)
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ANTH 1010 Introduction to Anthropology [LaHatte]
May 19 - June 13 | TBA
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ANTH 1559 Green Anthropology: Ethnographies of Sustainability [Stoetzel]
June 16 - July 11 | Green Anthropology challenges students to apply an anthropological lens to evaluate the barrage of “sustainable” living options available today. Green living has become a pervasive phenomenon throughout popular media outlets typified by how-to lists. Contemporary stresses including global warming, the threat of overpopulation, and increasing soil infertility drive the desire for a sustainable livelihood. This summer course highlights the contributions of anthropology when teasing out the details when sustainable livelihoods clash with personal aspirations for life in the 21st century.
We will explore the following topics during this course:
1. The provenience and genetic make-up of food.
a. Domestication.
b. Local farmers market.
c. Organic, non-organic, GMO.
2. The interplay between “sustainable” architecture and social organization.
a. Personal comfort.
b. Move towards indigenous landscapes.
3. The current state of things in global and local scales.
a. Fossil fuels.
b. Potential issues with modern source material of sustainable energies.
4. Pre-modern and non-Western approaches to sustainable lifestyles.
a. Previous responses to environmental degradation.
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ANTH 2230 Fantasy and Social Values [Stanley]
July 14 - August 7 | An examination of imaginary societies, in particular those in science fiction novels, to see how they reflect the problems and tensions of real social life. Attention is given to "alternate cultures" and fictional societal models. A "cultural imaginary" allows us to think carefully about implications of gender, technology, and social existence that we, for very good reasons, are not allowed to experiment upon.
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ANTH 2400 Language and Culture [Maceyko]
June 16 - July 11 | This course considers the interplay of language, society, and culture. It does so by exploring the connections that exist between language forms, individual speakers, and socially salient groups in terms of identity, legality, power, and expectation. How do we measure, study, and understand communication and language? How might interpretations of language-use change depending who the speaker is, how they say what they say, and where/when they say it? Readings and discussions will address these questions and the many issues that we encounter every day as we attempt to communicate with others.
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ANTH 2500 Cultures, Regions, and Civilizations [Khan]
May 19 - June 13 | TBA
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ANTH 2557 Culture through Film [Questa]
May 19 - June 13 | TBA
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ANTH 2589 Puebloan SW: Past & Present [Leckey & Most]
May 19 - June1 | TBA
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ANTH 2620 Sex, Gender, and Culture [Reynolds]
June 16 - July 11 | How do we come to consider ourselves ‘men’ or ‘women’ or ‘transgender’? What do we mean by ‘feminine’ or ‘masculine’? And how much does the body determine the ways in which we experience and express ourselves as gendered and sexed persons? This course examines how ideas about sex, gender, and sexuality are culturally constructed through social structures and economic systems, and how cultural, political, and economic structures redefine biological distinctions between women and men. In this course, we will engage with readings and films to help us identify and challenge taken-for-granted notions about sex, gender, and sexuality; we will also learn how to apply theories about ideology and hegemony to better understand how cultural value systems influence people’s understandings of gender and sexuality. We will explore how gender and sexuality are constructed in different cultures. The course will also how sexism, heterosexism, racism, and classism interconnect to create different barriers and challenges for different groups of people. This course is designed to help you develop a critical understanding of issues that surround the intersection of sex, gender, sexuality, and culture, and to connect them to our everyday lives. We will draw on examples from different cultures and different parts of the world to better understand how contemporary notions of gender, sexuality, race, bodies, desire, and identity contribute to the world we live in.
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ANTH 3240 Anthropology of Food [Starr]
July 14 - August 7 | This course examines the production, distribution, and consumption of food as it is understood and theorized within cultural anthropology. Each week we will explore a particular theme by reading ethnographies, watching films, and discussing the materials in class. We will look at cross-cultural differences of how food and eating are actively involved in (1) creating and maintaining sociality, (2) constructing and reinforcing identity, and (3) in shaping global relations of power and inequalities. We will inquire into how our own role as consumers reinforces certain global food-ways, impacting many people who remain unseen in the process. It is a course that will not only introduce you to other ways of viewing, experiencing, and understanding food but will also explore avenues through which you can be a conscientious food consumer in today’s world.
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ANTH 3300 Tournaments and Athletes [Mentore]
TuTh 12:30PM - 1:45PM | This course will explore the ways that culturally formed systems of values and family organization affect population processes in a variety of cultures. Topics to be discussed will include (1) marriage strategies and alternatives, the problem of unbalanced sex ratios at marriageable age, systems of polygamy and polyandry, divorce, widowhood and remarriage; (2) fertility decision making, premodern methods of birth control and spacing, infanticide; (3) disease history, the impact of epidemics and famine, the differential impact of mortality by gender, age, and class, the impact of improved nutrition and modern medicine; (4) migration, regional systems, and variation through time and space in the structure of populations. (3.0 Units)
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ANTH 3130 Disease, Epidemics and Society [Shepherd]
May 19 - June 13 | A cross-cultural study of sport