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ANTH 200 INTRODUCTION TO THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF Credits 3.00 Spring 99
* RESTRICTED DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
An introduction to the scientific study of language. The methods of
linguistic prehistory. The language families of the world and the
interrelationship of language and thought.
Also offered as Ling 200.
A FOUNDATION COURSE.
001 MWF 09:00AM-09:50AM SH*309 Gildea, Spike *CURRENT ENR: 0
ANTH 201 INTRO SOCIAL/CULTURAL ANTH Credits 3.00 Spring 99
* RESTRICTED DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
An introduction to the history, methods, and concepts of the discipline
devoted to the systematic description and understanding of cultural
diversity in human societies.
A FOUNDATION COURSE.
001 TTH 10:50AM-12:05PM PL*212 Georges, Eugenia *CURRENT ENR: 118
ANTH 206 INTRO TO WORLD PREHISTORY Credits 3.00 Spring 99
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
A sequel to Anth 205, this course provides an overview of the human past
as revealed and reconstructed by archaeology. While the broader
patterns of prehistoric cultural development are explored, the course
also focuses on specific sites that have been particularly important in
shaping our understanding of these patterns. Coverage extends from the
earlies use of stone tools over two million years ago to the
pre-literate foundations of early civilization.
Prereq- Anth 205 or permission of the instructor.
001 TTH 10:50AM-12:05PM SH*462 McIntosh, Susan *CURRENT ENR: 7
ANTH 220 CONTEMPORARY CHINESE CULTURE Credits 3.00 Spring 99
* RESTRICTED DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
This introductory ("foundational") course is designed to encourage
creative ways of thinking about "Cultural China"--a broad ranging
concept that includes the People's Republic, the newly established
Special Administrative Region (SAR) of Hong Kong, the Republic of China
on Taiwan, and overseas Chinese communities throughout the world. The
course will be team-taught and will employ a number of different media,
including not only printed texts but also films, videotapes, slides, and
materials on the world-wide web. It will involve group projects
(emphasizing cooperation rather than competition), wide-ranging
discussions, and a number of interesting guest lecturers, including Wang
Meng, former Minister of Culture of the PRC and one of China's leading
novelists.
Also offered as Hist 220. Offered with additional work as Anth 310.
001 W 03:00PM-06:00PM RH*110 Lee, Benjamin *CURRENT ENR: 3
001 Smith, Richard *CURRENT ENR: 3
ANTH 290 THE HISTORY AND ETHNOGRAPHY OF Credits 3.00 Spring 99
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
This course focuses intensively on the history and ethnography of a
single people, the selection of which changes from year to year. Using
all available materials, this course provides an introduction to the
approaches of the discipline and how they have changed, registered by
the different ways anthropologists and others have represented over
time, the same subjects.
001 MWF 10:00AM-10:50AM SH*460 Marcus, George *CURRENT ENR: 11
ANTH 300 LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS Credits 3.00 Spring 99
* RESTRICTED DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
English and other languages as objects of scientific analysis.
Phonological structure, morphology and syntax, semantic structures, and
techniques of linguistic analysis.
Also offered as Ling 300.
A FOUNDATION COURSE.
001 MWF 11:00AM-11:50AM SH*207B Gildea, Spike *CURRENT ENR: 0
ANTH 305 HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS Credits 3.00 Spring 99
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Exploration of the nature of language change in its phonological,
morphological, syntactic, semantic, and sociocultural aspects, using the
perspective of language acquisition. Includes techniques of internal
and comparative reconstruction of proto-languages. Required for
linguistics majors; may substitute Ling 315.
Prereq- Ling 200, 300, or 301 or permission of instructor.
Also offered as Ling 305.
001 MWF 10:00AM-10:50AM Mithun, Marianne *CURRENT ENR: 0
001 Chafe, Wallace *CURRENT ENR: 0
ANTH 308 HISTORY AS A CULTURAL MYTH Credits 3.00 Spring 99
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Ideas of history and attitudes toward the past as culturally conditioned
phenomena. Emphasizes history as statement of cultural values as well
as conceptualizations of cause, change, time, and reality.
Also offered as Wgst 336.
001 TTH 04:00PM-05:20PM SH*460 Elfimov, Alexei *CURRENT ENR: 8
ANTH 310 CONTEMPORARY CHINESE CULTURE Credits 3.00 Spring 99
* RESTRICTED DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
An enriched version of Anth 220 (and Hist 220). Students may not
receive credit for both Anth 220 and Anth 310 (or Hist 220/310 or any
combination thereof).
001 W 03:00PM-06:00PM RH*110 Lee, Benjamin *CURRENT ENR: 3
ANTH 317 CULTURE IS GOOD TO THINK Credits 3.00 Spring 99
* RESTRICTED DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
A critical survey of the sources and senses of the working vocabulary of
contemporary social and cultural anthropology. Special attention is
paid to the strengths and shortcomings of the anthropological habit of
borrowing concepts and diagnostic categories from other fields.
A FOUNDATION COURSE.
001 TTH 10:50AM-12:05PM SH*562 Faubion, James *CURRENT ENR: 9
ANTH 322 CULTURES & INDENTITIES: RACE,ETHNICITY, Credits 3.00 Spring 99
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
How do cultural conceptions of race, ethnicity, and nationalism shape
who we think we are? How are these ideas related to Western views of
the relations between nature and society, and how do these differ from
those in other cultures?
001 T 02:30PM-05:30PM SH*207B Lee, Benjamin *CURRENT ENR: 15
ANTH 325 SEX, SELF, AND SOCIETY IN ANCIENT GREECE Credits 3.00 Spring 99
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
An introductory venture into conducting fieldwork in the past. The
course treats a wide range of artifacts, from philosophical essays to
vase paintings. It derives its focus from a rich corpus of recent
research into the ancient problemization of desire and self-control.
Also offered as WGST 332.
001 TTH 02:30PM-03:50PM SH*560 Faubion, James *CURRENT ENR: 13
ANTH 338 READING POPULAR CULTURE Credits 3.00 Spring 99
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
The course examines a number of cases from popular genres -- romance
novels, television sit-coms, tourist sites, movies, rock music -- and
submits them to a variety of theoretical approaches from disciplines
such as anthropology, sociology, literary studies and philosophy.
001 W 02:00PM-05:00PM SH*309 Milun, Kathryn *CURRENT ENR: 17
ANTH 344 CITY/CULTURE Credits 3.00 Spring 99
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
The course treats both the theorization and the ethnographic exploration
of the urban imaginary; urban spaces and practices; urban, suburban, and
post-urban planning; city-states, colonial cities, and capital cities;
and the late 20th century metropolis.
001 TTH 01:00PM-02:20PM SH*562 Elfimov, Alexei *CURRENT ENR: 9
ANTH 353 CULTURES OF INDIA Credits 3.00 Spring 99
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Summary of the prehistory, ethnography, and ethnology of the Indian
subcontinent. Special emphasis on Hinduism, Buddhism, and Indian
philosophy.
001 TTH 09:25AM-10:40AM SH*309 Tyler, Stephen *CURRENT ENR: 76
ANTH 362 ARCHEOLOGICAL FIELD TECH Credits 3.00 Spring 99
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Methods used in field work, laboratory analysis, and interpretation of
archaeological data from a local site excavated by the class.
Prereq- Anth 205.
001 W 02:00PM-05:00PM SH*307 McIntosh, Roderick *CURRENT ENR: 19
ANTH 381 MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY Credits 3.00 Spring 99
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Cultural, ecological, and biological perspectives on human health and
disease throughout the world.
Enrollment is limited to 25.
001 TTH 02:30PM-03:50PM SH*303 Georges, Eugenia *CURRENT ENR: 38
ANTH 402 SEMINAR IN SYNTAX & SEMANTICS Credits 3.00 Spring 99
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Study of semantic categories and their formal expression in
morphological, syntactic, and lexical units and patterns.
Also offered as Ling 402.
001 MWF 01:00PM-01:50PM RH*319 Davis, Philip *CURRENT ENR: 0
ANTH 404 INDEPENDENT STUDY Credits 1.00 Spring 99
Directed reading and preparation of written papers on anthropological
subjects not offered in the curriculum and advanced study of subjects on
which courses are offered.
001 TBA TBA Marcus, George *CURRENT ENR: 2
002 TBA TBA Faubion, James *CURRENT ENR: 1
003 TBA TBA Georges, Eugenia *CURRENT ENR: 2
004 TBA TBA Lee, Benjamin *CURRENT ENR: 1
005 TBA TBA McIntosh, Roderick *CURRENT ENR: 0
006 McIntosh, Susan *CURRENT ENR: 0
007 Milun, Kathryn *CURRENT ENR: 0
008 Taylor, Julie *CURRENT ENR: 0
009 Tyler, Stephen *CURRENT ENR: 0
ANTH 406 COGNITIVE STUDIES IN ANTH & LING Credits 3.00 Spring 99
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Relations between thought, language, and culture. Special emphasis
given to natural systems of classification and the logical principles
underlying them.
001 TTH 10:50AM-12:05PM SH*460 Tyler, Stephen *CURRENT ENR: 0
ANTH 408 FIELD TECHNIQUES AND ANALYSIS Credits 3.00 Spring 99
Continuation of Anth 407.
Also offered as Ling 408.
001 TBA TBA Davis, Philip *CURRENT ENR: 0
ANTH 416 THEORIES OF MODERNITY/ POSTMODERNITY: I Credits 3.00 Spring 99
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
An examination of the work of one important theorist associated with
poststructuralist thought, Gilles Deleuze. In the first part of the
course we will read three of Deleuze's main works: Difference and
Repetition; A Thousand Plateaux, and Kafka: Towards a Minor Literature.
In the second part we will examine works that use a Deleuzian framework
to analyze the followiwing topics: ecopolitics, feminism, global
capital, cyberspace and colonialism.
001 TTH 01:00PM-02:20PM SH*207A Milun, Kathryn *CURRENT ENR: 1
ANTH 439 DOCUMENTARYÐNOGRAPHIC FILM Credits 4.00 Spring 99
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Provides a broad overview of the history of documentary and ethnographic
cinema. Maintaining a world-wide perspective, both canonical and
alternative films and film movements will be discussed. Particular
attention will be paid to the shifting and overlapping boundaries of
fiction and nonfiction genres.
Enrollment limited to 10
Also offered as Hart 439/539
001 T 01:00PM-05:00PM MECN*100 Naficy, Hamid *CURRENT ENR: 0
ANTH 458 HUMAN OSTEOLOGY Credits 3.00 Spring 99
Introduction to the analysis of human skeletal material from
archaeological sites.
001 TTH 02:30PM-03:50PM SH*103 McIntosh, Susan *CURRENT ENR: 5
ANTH 475 PLIO-PLEISTOCENE CLIMATE CHANGE & HOMINI Credits 3.00 Spring 99
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP III
Junctures in the evolution of the hominids appear to coincide with
shifts in the Earth's climate record. We will explore the current
status of our knowledge of global climate in the Plio-Pleistocene and of
the hominid record from the end of the Miocene to the appearance of H.
sapiens.
Also offered as Geol 475.
001 TTH 09:25AM-10:40AM GL*105 Droxler, Andre *CURRENT ENR: 0
001 McIntosh, Roderick *CURRENT ENR: 0
ANTH 491 DIRECTED HONORS RESEARCH Credits 3.00 Spring 99
See Anth 490.
001 TBA TBA Marcus, George *CURRENT ENR: 0
002 Faubion, James *CURRENT ENR: 0
003 Georges, Eugenia *CURRENT ENR: 0
004 Lee, Benjamin *CURRENT ENR: 0
005 McIntosh, Roderick *CURRENT ENR: 2
006 McIntosh, Susan *CURRENT ENR: 0
007 Milun, Kathryn *CURRENT ENR: 0
008 Taylor, Julie *CURRENT ENR: 0
009 Tyler, Stephen *CURRENT ENR: 0
ANTH 508 HISTORY AS A CULTURAL MYTH Credits 3.00 Spring 99
See Anth 308.
001 TTH 04:00PM-05:20PM SH*460 Elfimov, Alexei *CURRENT ENR: 0
ANTH 516 INTRO TO WORLD PREHISTORY Credits 3.00 Spring 99
See Anth 206.
001 TTH 10:50AM-12:05PM SH*462 McIntosh, Susan *CURRENT ENR: 0
ANTH 517 CULTURE IS GOOD TO THINK ' Credits 3.00 Spring 99
See Anth 317.
001 TTH 10:50AM-12:05PM SH*562 Faubion, James *CURRENT ENR: 3
ANTH 522 CULTURES & IDENTITIES: RACE,ETHNICITY & Credits 3.00 Spring 99
See Anth 322.
001 T 02:30PM-05:30PM SH*207B Lee, Benjamin *CURRENT ENR: 2
ANTH 525 SEX, SELF, AND SOCIETY IN ANCIENT GREECE Credits 3.00 Spring 99
See Anth 325.
001 TTH 02:30PM-03:50PM SH*560 Faubion, James *CURRENT ENR: 0
ANTH 538 READING POPULAR CULTURE Credits 3.00 Spring 99
See Anth 338.
001 W 02:00PM-05:00PM SH*309 Milun, Kathryn *CURRENT ENR: 0
ANTH 539 DOCUMENTARYÐNOGRAPHIC FILM Credits 4.00 Spring 99
See Anth 439.
001 T 01:00PM-05:00PM MECN*100 Naficy, Hamid *CURRENT ENR: 0
ANTH 544 CITY/CULTURE Credits 3.00 Spring 99
See Anth 344.
001 TTH 01:00PM-02:20PM SH*562 Elfimov, Alexei *CURRENT ENR: 0
ANTH 553 CULTURES OF INDIA Credits 3.00 Spring 99
See Anth 353.
001 TTH 09:25AM-10:40AM SH*309 Tyler, Stephen *CURRENT ENR: 0
ANTH 562 ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELD TECH Credits 3.00 Spring 99
See Anth 362.
001 W 02:00PM-05:00PM SH*307 McIntosh, Roderick *CURRENT ENR: 0
ANTH 581 MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY Credits 3.00 Spring 99
See Anth 381.
001 Georges, Eugenia *CURRENT ENR: 1
ANTH 590 HISTORY & ANTHROPOLOGY OF A PEOPLE Credits 3.00 Spring 99
See Anth 390.
001 MWF 10:00AM-10:50AM TBA Marcus, George *CURRENT ENR: 1
ANTH 600 INDEPENDENT STUDY Credits 3.00 Spring 99
001 TBA TBA Marcus, George *CURRENT ENR: 13
002 TBA TBA Faubion, James *CURRENT ENR: 9
003 TBA TBA Georges, Eugenia *CURRENT ENR: 3
004 Lee, Benjamin *CURRENT ENR: 1
005 McIntosh, Roderick *CURRENT ENR: 0
006 McIntosh, Susan *CURRENT ENR: 0
007 Milun, Kathryn *CURRENT ENR: 1
008 Taylor, Julie *CURRENT ENR: 0
009 Tyler, Stephen *CURRENT ENR: 2
ANTH 606 COGNITIVE STUDIES: ANTH & LING Credits 3.00 Spring 99
See Anth 406.
001 TTH 10:50AM-12:05PM SH*460 Tyler, Stephen *CURRENT ENR: 1
ANTH 608 FIELD TECHNIQUES AND ANALYSIS Credits 3.00 Spring 99
See Anth 408.
001 TTH 10:50AM-12:05PM SH*560 Davis, Philip *CURRENT ENR: 0
ANTH 616 THEORIES OF MODERNITY/ POSTMODERNITY: I Credits 3.00 Spring 99
See Anth 416.
001 TTH 01:00PM-02:20PM SH*207A Milun, Kathryn *CURRENT ENR: 6
ANTH 658 HUMAN OSTEOLOGY Credits 3.00 Spring 99
See Anth 458.
001 TTH 02:30PM-03:50PM SH*103 McIntosh, Susan *CURRENT ENR: 1
ANTH 800 RESEARCH AND THESIS Credits 3.00 Spring 99
001 TBA TBA TBA *CURRENT ENR: 14
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