Rice Course Schedule, Spring 2002
Anthropology (ANTH)
Rice Course Schedule as of 03/20/2002.
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ANTH 200 INTRO TO THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF LANGUAG Credits 3.00 Spring 02 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II * RESTRICTED DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II Introduction to concepts and terminology in the scientific study of language. Includes sound systems (phonology), construction of words (morphology), organization of words in the sentence (syntax), meaning (semantics), and information flow (pragmatics), as well as a survey of interdisciplinary uses of linguistics such as historical linguistics (archaeology), dialectology (sociology), and language acquistion (psychology, cognitive sciences, and language teaching). Also offered as LING 200. Enrollment is limited to 80. Also offered as LING 200 001 SH 309 - MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM Englebretson, Robert Enr: 23 Max: 40 ANTH 205 INTRO-ARCHAEOLOGY Credits 3.00 Spring 02 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II An introduction to the elementary concepts of the discipline through a series of case studies. 001 SH 307 - TTH 04:00PM - 05:20PM McIntosh, Roderick J. Enr: 38 Max: 0 ANTH 298 BIOTECHNOLOGY, 1900 TO NOW Credits 3.00 Spring 02 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II The technical manipulation of living matter from humans, animals and plants is both a scientific and a social undertaking. This course is designed for humanities and science students who want to know more about how biotechnology came into existence, and the questions, controversies and changes which come with the ability to engineer living things. A series of case studies of contemporary events in cloning, patenting, genetically modified organisms, and stem cell research will be set in the context of the 20th century history of biotechnology. 001 RH 123 - MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM Landecker, Hannah Enr: 45 Max: 0 ANTH 300 LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS Credits 3.00 Spring 02 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II * RESTRICTED DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II Language as an object of scientific analysis, focused on how different languages organize semantic and pragmatic information into simple sentences. Topics: morphology, syntactic categories and constituency, propositional semantics, tense-aspect-modality, pragmatic information status, grammatical relations, and voice systems. Also offered as Ling 300. Pre-req: Ling 200 or permission of instructor. 001 SH 305 - MWF 01:00PM - 01:50PM Englebretson, Robert Enr: 1 Max: 0 ANTH 327 GENDER AND SYMBOLISM Credits 3.00 Spring 02 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II Examinations of beliefs concerning men, women, and gender in different cultures, including the West, relating to issues of symbolism, power, and the distribution of cultural models. Also offered as WGST 350. 001 SH 303 - TTH 04:00PM - 05:20PM Taylor, Julie M. Enr: 21 Max: 0 ANTH 329 BODIES, SENSUALITIES & ART Credits 3.00 Spring 02 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II Cross-cultural approaches to art and the senses. Students my engage any medium. Emphasis to be placed on issues generated from performance in the arts rather than from academia. Contrasts art and academic knowledge to explore alternative epistemologies and aesthetics. 001 SH 309 - W 02:00PM - 05:00PM Taylor, Julie M. Enr: 24 Max: 0 ANTH 345 THE POLITICS OF THE PAST: ARCHAEOLOGY IN Credits 3.00 Spring 02 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II An examination of the way that archaeological evidence of the past has been used and viewed by particular groups at different times. Using case studies, the course considers issues of gender, race, Eurocentrism, political domination and legitimacy that emerge from critical analysis of representations of the past by archaeologists, museums, and collectors. 001 SH 207A - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM McIntosh, Susan K. Enr: 11 Max: 0 ANTH 347 THE U.S. AS A FOREIGN COUNTRY Credits 3.00 Spring 02 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II The course looks at selected aspects of American culture and society from an anthropological point of view. Readings derive from the works of both foreign and native observers, past and present. 001 SH 207B - TTH 01:00PM - 02:20PM Faubion, James D. Enr: 17 Max: 0 002 FL 414 - TTH 01:00PM - 02:20PM Faubion, James D. Enr: 12 Max: NA ANTH 353 CULTURES OF INDIA Credits 3.00 Spring 02 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II Summary of the prehistory, ethnography, and ethnology of the Indian subcontinent. Special emphasis on Hinduism, Buddhism, and Indian philosophy. 001 SH 309 - TTH 09:25AM - 10:40AM Tyler, Stephen A. Enr: 58 Max: 0 ANTH 372 CULTURES OF CAPITALISM Credits 3.00 Spring 02 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II Most of us think of capitalism as primarily and economic phenomenon. Yet, it also has a profoundly cultural dimension that includes culturally specific forms of risk taking, speculation, and even money and capital. This course will explore contemporary phenomenon such as speculation, booms and busts, and the stock market, and use them to discuss some of the classic work on the "cultures of capitalism," including Marx, Simmel, Kracauer, and contemporary writers such as Jameson, DeBord, and Virillio. This is not an introductory course in economics. but will look at how people talk and write about culture and capitalislm. 001 SH 207B - W 02:00PM - 05:00PM Lee, Benjamin Enr: 11 Max: 0 ANTH 375 ABRACADABRA: LANGUAGE AND MEMORY IN SCIE Credits 3.00 Spring 02 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II The history of language, writing, and formal notational systems in science and technology. Includes ancient and renaissance arts of memory, universal languages and the development of the calculus, secret writing and cryptography, the graphical method, the rise of the 'scriptural' mode of DNA, the development and use of programming languages, psychoanalysis. No technical knowlege is assumed. 001 SH 307 - MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM Kelty, Christopher Enr: 35 Max: 0 ANTH 381 MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY Credits 3.00 Spring 02 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II Cultural, ecological, and biological perspectives on human health and disease throughout the world. Enrollment limited. 001 SH 303 - TTH 01:00PM - 02:20PM Georges, Eugenia Enr: 38 Max: 25 ANTH 390 CULTURE, NARRATION, AND SUBJECTIVITY Credits 3.00 Spring 02 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II This course examines how linguistic and narrative structures interact to produce specific cultures of interpretation. The focus will be on linguistic and literary representations of subjectivity. This course will use novels by Western authors, such as Virginia Woolf and Dostoevsky, and some Chinese materials as comparison. 001 SH 207A - TTH 04:00PM - 05:20PM Lee, Benjamin Enr: 7 Max: 0 ANTH 402 SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS Credits 3.00 Spring 02 * 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 TBA - MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM Davis, Philip W. Enr: 1 Max: 0 ANTH 403 ANALYZING PRACTICE Credits 3.00 Spring 02 A critical review of work informed by what has sometimes been deemed the "key concept" of anthropological theory and research since the 1960s. Special attention will be devoted to the analytics of practice developed by Foucault, Bourdieu, and by de Corteau. 001 SH 352A - M 02:00PM - 05:00PM Faubion, James D. Enr: 0 Max: 0 ANTH 404 INDEPENDENT STUDY Credits Spring 02 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 E. Enr: 0 Max: 0 002 TBA - TBA Faubion, James D. Enr: 1 Max: NA 003 TBA - TBA Georges, Eugenia Enr: 0 Max: NA 004 TBA - TBA Lee, Benjamin Enr: 0 Max: NA 005 TBA - TBA McIntosh, Roderick J. Enr: 0 Max: NA 006 TBA - TBA McIntosh, Susan K. Enr: 0 Max: NA 007 TBA - TBA Kelty, Christopher Enr: 0 Max: NA 008 TBA - TBA Taylor, Julie M. Enr: 0 Max: NA 009 TBA - TBA Tyler, Stephen A. Enr: 1 Max: NA 010 TBA - TBA Landecker, Hannah Enr: 1 Max: NA ANTH 406 COGNITIVE STUDIES IN ANTHROPOLOGY AND LI Credits 3.00 Spring 02 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II Relations between thought, language, and culture. Special emphasis given to natural systems of classification and their underlying logical principles. Also offered as LING 406. 001 SH 352A - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM Tyler, Stephen A. Enr: 5 Max: 0 ANTH 408 FIELD TECHNIQUES AND ANALYSIS Credits 3.00 Spring 02 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II Continuation of Anth 407/Ling 407. Also offered as LING 408. Permission of instructor. 001 SH 562 - F 03:00PM - 04:30PM SH 56 Davis, Philip W. Enr: 0 Max: 0 ANTH 409 AUTHORSHIP AND OWNERSHIP Credits 3.00 Spring 02 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II A course on the relations that bind persons to particular things or ideas as property. Looks at forms of ownership as emboided by patents, copyright, brandname and trademark, and explores how such laws, marks and names functions as useful anthropological objects. 001 SH 560 - F 02:00PM - 05:00PM Landecker, Hannah Enr: 2 Max: 0 ANTH 411 NEUROLINGUISTICS Credits 3.00 Spring 02 Study of language and the brain. Includes the organization of the brain (e.g., the localization of speech, language, and memory functions), hemispheric dominance, and the pathologies of speech and language associated with brain damage. Also offered as LING 411. 001 SH 460 - TTH 09:25AM - 10:40AM Lamb, Sydney M. Enr: 0 Max: 0 ANTH 418 CAN HUMANS THINK? ANTHROPOS, HUMANISM AN Credits 3.00 Spring 02 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II An upper level reading and research seminar that combines readings in the history of humanism with empirical and theoretical issues from the present. Texts and topics from Kant to JCR Licklider on anthropos and humanism, and examples from current debates; genetic engineering, environmentalism, interfaces and networking technologies, testing technologies, and intellectual property regimes. Emphasis on the three R's. 001 HB 423 - TH 02:00PM - 05:00PM Kelty, Christopher Enr: 0 Max: 0 ANTH 450 ANTHROPOLOGY IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD: Credits 3.00 Spring 02 This seminar is designed specifically for juniors and seniors who have declared anthropology as a major, and is intended as an opportunity for them to survey the various applications and points of relevance of anthropology in the rapid transformations of contemporary societies and cultures. It is meant to both assess and challenge the forms of knowledge that anthropology has produced since its inception as a discipline. 001 SH 560 - M 02:00PM - 05:00PM Marcus, George E. Enr: 4 Max: 0 ANTH 458 HUMAN OSTEOLOGY Credits 3.00 Spring 02 Introduction to the analysis of human skeletal material from archaeological sites. 001 SH 103 - TTH 02:30PM - 03:50PM McIntosh, Susan K. Enr: 4 Max: 0 ANTH 475 PLIO-PLEISTOCENE CLIMATE CHANGE & HOMINI Credits 3.00 Spring 02 * DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II 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 ESCI 475. 001 SH 560 - TTH 09:25AM - 10:40AM McIntosh, Roderick J. Enr: 2 Max: 0 ANTH 484 CULTURE, MEDIA, SOCIETY: EXILE & DIASPOR Credits 4.00 Spring 02 Examination of cultural productions as vehicles for communication across national, cultural, and other boundaries, using contemporary theoris of culture and media. Includes the creation of meaning and cultural capital, the representation of minority and alternative views, and the construction of individual and group identities. Also offered as HART 484. 001 MECN 100 - W 01:00PM - 05:00PM Naficy, Hamid Enr: 1 Max: 0 ANTH 491 DIRECTED HONORS RESEARCH Credits 3.00 Spring 02 A two-semester sequence of independent research culminating in the preparation and defense of an honors thesis. Open only to candidates formally accepted into the honors program. 001 TBA - TBA Marcus, George E. Enr: 1 Max: 0 002 TBA - TBA Faubion, James D. Enr: 0 Max: NA 003 TBA - TBA Georges, Eugenia Enr: 2 Max: NA 004 TBA - TBA Lee, Benjamin Enr: 0 Max: NA 005 TBA - TBA McIntosh, Roderick J. Enr: 0 Max: NA 006 TBA - TBA McIntosh, Susan K. Enr: 0 Max: NA 007 TBA - TBA Kelty, Christopher Enr: 0 Max: NA 008 TBA - TBA Taylor, Julie M. Enr: 0 Max: NA 009 TBA - TBA Tyler, Stephen A. Enr: 0 Max: NA 010 TBA - TBA Landecker, Hannah Enr: 0 Max: NA ANTH 527 GENDER AND SYMBOLISM Credits 3.00 Spring 02 Graduate version of Anth 327. 001 SH 303 - TTH 04:00PM - 05:20PM Taylor, Julie M. Enr: 0 Max: 0 ANTH 529 BODIES, SENSUALITIES, AND ART Credits 3.00 Spring 02 Graduate version of ANTH 329. 001 SH 309 - W 02:00PM - 05:00PM Taylor, Julie M. Enr: 1 Max: 0 ANTH 545 THE POLITICS OF THE PAST: ARCHAEOLOGY IN Credits 3.00 Spring 02 Graduate version of Anth 345. 001 SH 207A - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM McIntosh, Susan K. Enr: 0 Max: 0 ANTH 547 THE U.S. AT A FOREIGN COUNTRY Credits 3.00 Spring 02 Graduate version of ANTH 347. 001 SH 207B - TTH 01:00PM - 02:20PM Faubion, James D. Enr: 0 Max: NA 002 TBA - TTH 01:00PM - 02:20PM Faubion, James D. Enr: 1 Max: NA ANTH 553 CULTURES OF INDIA Credits 3.00 Spring 02 Graduate of verison of Anth 353. 001 SH 309 - TTH 09:25AM - 10:40AM Tyler, Stephen A. Enr: 1 Max: 0 ANTH 572 CULTURES OF CAPITALISM Credits 3.00 Spring 02 Graduate version of ANTH 372. 001 SH 207B - W 02:00PM - 05:00PM Lee, Benjamin Enr: 1 Max: 0 ANTH 575 ABRACADABRA: LANGUAGE AND MEMORY IN SCIE Credits 3.00 Spring 02 Graduate version of ANTH 375. 001 SH 307 - MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM Kelty, Christopher Enr: 2 Max: 0 ANTH 581 MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY Credits 3.00 Spring 02 Graduate version of ANTH 381. Enrollment limited. 001 SH 303 - TTH 01:00PM - 02:20PM Georges, Eugenia Enr: 0 Max: 10 ANTH 590 CULTURE, NARRATION AND SUBJECTIVITY Credits 3.00 Spring 02 Graduate version of ANTH 390. 001 SH 207A - TTH 04:00PM - 05:20PM Lee, Benjamin Enr: 5 Max: 0 ANTH 600 INDEPENDENT STUDY Credits Spring 02 No description. 001 TBA - TBA Marcus, George E. Enr: 3 Max: 0 002 TBA - TBA Faubion, James D. Enr: 3 Max: NA 003 TBA - TBA Georges, Eugenia Enr: 2 Max: NA 004 TBA - TBA Lee, Benjamin Enr: 0 Max: NA 005 TBA - TBA McIntosh, Roderick J. Enr: 0 Max: NA 006 TBA - TBA McIntosh, Susan K. Enr: 0 Max: NA 007 TBA - TBA Kelty, Christopher Enr: 1 Max: NA 008 TBA - TBA Taylor, Julie M. Enr: 0 Max: NA 009 TBA - TBA Tyler, Stephen A. Enr: 0 Max: NA 010 TBA - TBA Landecker, Hannah Enr: 0 Max: NA ANTH 603 ANALYZING PRACTICE Credits 3.00 Spring 02 Graduate version of ANTH 403. 001 SH 352A - M 02:00PM - 05:00PM Faubion, James D. Enr: 9 Max: 0 ANTH 606 COGNITIVE STUDIES IN ANTHROPOLOGY AND LI Credits 3.00 Spring 02 Graduate version of Anth 406. Also offered as LING 606. 001 SH 352A - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM Tyler, Stephen A. Enr: 1 Max: 0 ANTH 608 FIELD TECHNIQUES AND ANALYSIS Credits 3.00 Spring 02 Graduate verison of Anth 408. 001 SH 562 - F 03:00PM - 04:30PM SH 56 Staff Enr: 0 Max: 0 ANTH 609 AUTHORSHIP AND OWNERSHIP Credits 3.00 Spring 02 Graduate version of ANTH 409. 001 SH 560 - F 02:00PM - 05:00PM Landecker, Hannah Enr: 2 Max: 0 ANTH 611 NEUROLINGUISTICS Credits 3.00 Spring 02 Graduate version of ANTH 411. 001 SH 460 - TTH 09:25AM - 10:40AM Lamb, Sydney M. Enr: 1 Max: 0 ANTH 618 CAN HUMANS THINK? ANTHROPOS, HUMANISM AN Credits 3.00 Spring 02 Graduate version of ANTH 418. 001 HB 423 - TH 02:00PM - 05:00PM Kelty, Christopher Enr: 3 Max: 0 ANTH 658 HUMAN OSTEOLOGY Credits 3.00 Spring 02 Graduate version of Anth 458. 001 SH 103 - TTH 02:30PM - 03:50PM McIntosh, Susan K. Enr: 0 Max: 0 ANTH 675 PLIO-PLEISTOCENE CLIMATE CHANGE AND HOMI Credits 3.00 Spring 02 Graduate version of ANTH 418. 001 SH 560 - TTH 09:25AM - 10:40AM McIntosh, Roderick J. Enr: 0 Max: 0 ANTH 684 CULTURE, MEDIA, SOCIETY: EXILE & DIASPOR Credits 4.00 Spring 02 Graduate verison of Anth 484. Also offered as HART 684. 001 MECN 100 - W 01:00PM - 05:00PM Naficy, Hamid Enr: 6 Max: NA ANTH 800 RESEARCH AND THESIS Credits Spring 02 No description. 001 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 20 Max: 0
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