Rice Course Schedule, Fall 2003
Anthropology (ANTH)
Rice Course Schedule as of 11/06/2003.
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NOTE: Course web pages are available for some ANTH courses.
ANTH 200 INTRODUCTION TO THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF Credits 3.00 Fall 03
* 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.
001 SH 301 - MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM Englebretson, Robert Enr: 12 Max: NA
ANTH 201 INTRO SOCIAL/CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY Credits 3.00 Fall 03
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
* RESTRICTED DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Introduction to the history, methods, and concepts of social/cultural
anthropology, which is devoted to the systematic description and understanding
of cultural diversity in human societies.
001 SH 301 - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM Georges, Eugenia Enr: 175 Max: 175
ANTH 203 HUMAN ANTIQUITY:AN INTRODUCTION TO PHYSI Credits 3.00 Fall 03
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
This course offers a broad introduction to the human past as revealed by
evolutionary studies of both biochemical and fossil evidence, and by
archaeological studies of human cultural behavior.
001 SH 303 - TTH 02:30PM - 03:50PM McIntosh, Susan K. Enr: 36 Max: NA
ANTH 205 INTRO TO ARCHAEOLOGY Credits 3.00 Fall 03
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
An introduction to the elementary concepts of the discipline through a series
of case studies.
001 SH 303 - TTH 09:25AM - 10:40AM McIntosh, Roderick J. Enr: 39 Max: 0
ANTH 290 THE HISTORY AND ETHNOGRAPHY OF THE (TO B Credits 3.00 Fall 03
* 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 the same subjects over time.
001 SH 562 - MWF 02:00AM - 02:50AM Breglia, Lisa Enr: 7 Max: NA
ANTH 306 HISTORY OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL IDEAS Credits 3.00 Fall 03
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
An introduction to the history of anthropology, its theories, and methods. The
emphasis is upon social and cultural anthropology.
001 SH 460 - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM Faubion, James D. Enr: 5 Max: 0
ANTH 316 CULTURAL ANALYSIS Credits 3.00 Fall 03
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
This course is specifically intended for lower level undergraduates as a means
of gaining familiarity with the analytical tradition of cultural anthropology
from the beginning of the Twentieth Century. The course is intended to provide
students with background for upper level courses in the department.
001 SH 562 - MWF 09:00AM - 09:50AM Baum, Eric Samuel Enr: 5 Max: 0
Marcus, George E.
Saka, Erkan
ANTH 318 GRAPHING, COUNTING, FILMING: REPRESENTAT Credits 3.00 Fall 03
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Cinema originated in the inscription of physiology on film; this was quickly
followed by biology, ethology and ethnology done by cinematography. This course
examines the historical, critical and methodological relations between film as
medium or method of visual investigation and cinema as site of cultural
analysis. Also offered as HART 381.
001 RH 121 - M 02:00PM - 05:00PM Landecker, Hannah Enr: 8 Max: 0
ANTH 323 PHONOLOGY Credits 3.00 Fall 03
Introduction to sound patterns in the languages of the world and to
interpretation of these patterns in four theoretical traditions: distribution
of holistic segments
(Phonemic Theory), process-oriented feature models
(Generative and Austosegemental models), constraint-based
models (Optimality
Theory), and cognitive approaches
(Natural Generative Phonology and Cognitive
Phonology). Also offered as LING 311.
001 DH 1046 - MWF 01:00PM - 01:50PM Staff Enr: 0 Max: NA
ANTH 328 VIOLENCE, TERROR, AND SOCIAL TRAUMA Credits 3.00 Fall 03
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
This course addresses the central place of violence in our society and its
relations with social and political terror in other cultures. Readings, film,
and theatre probe everyday violence as well as spectacular events of our times.
Aftermath, including cross generational trauma, will be explored.
001 SH 303 - TTH 04:00PM - 05:20PM Taylor, Julie M. Enr: 16 Max: 0
ANTH 338 READING POPULAR CULTURE Credits 3.00 Fall 03
* 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 GRB 212W - MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM Breglia, Lisa Enr: 26 Max: NA
ANTH 345 THE POLITICS OF THE PAST: ARCHAEOLOGY IN Credits 3.00 Fall 03
* 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 560 - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM McIntosh, Susan K. Enr: 10 Max: 0
ANTH 347 THE U.S. AS A FOREIGN COUNTRY Credits 3.00 Fall 03
* 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 SS 106 - TTH 02:30PM - 03:50PM Faubion, James D. Enr: 24 Max: 0
ANTH 363 EARLY CIVILIZATIONS Credits 3.00 Fall 03
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
A comparative study of the civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Indus,
China, and the Maya, emphasizing the causes and conditions of their origins.
001 RH 123 - TTH 01:00PM - 02:20PM McIntosh, Roderick J. Enr: 29 Max: 0
ANTH 395 CULTURES AND COMMUNICATION Credits 3.00 Fall 03
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Investigates the relations between different forms of communication - speech,
print, film and cultural constructions such as audiences, publics, and
communities.
001 SH 207B - TTH 01:00PM - 02:20PM Hejazi Martinez, Hutan Enr: 12 Max: NA
Wandless, Ana Maria
ANTH 404 INDEPENDENT STUDY Credits Fall 03
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: 1 Max: 0
002 TBA - TBA Faubion, James D. Enr: 0 Max: NA
003 TBA - TBA Georges, Eugenia Enr: 3 Max: NA
004 TBA - TBA Lee, Benjamin Enr: 0 Max: NA
005 TBA - TBA McIntosh, Roderick J. Enr: 1 Max: NA
006 TBA - TBA McIntosh, Susan K. Enr: 1 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 407 FIELD TECHNIQUES AND ANALYSIS Credits 3.00 Fall 03
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Techniques and practice in the observation, analysis, and recording of a human
language. Includes discussion of ethical issues in working with indigenous
peoples. Limited enrollment. LING 300, 301, and 402 recommended. Prerequisite:
permission of instructor. Also offered as LING 407. Course may be repeated for
credit.
001 RH 205 - T 06:00PM - 09:00PM Shibatani, Masayoshi Enr: 0 Max: NA
ANTH 430 EXPERIMENTAL WRITING & ANTHROPOLOGY Credits 3.00 Fall 03
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Explores relationships between ethnography and other genres. Emphasizes
experimental styles, including combinations of ethnographic and personal
material, and problems of writing to communicate experiences such as violence
and art.
001 SH 562 - W 07:00PM - 10:00PM Taylor, Julie M. Enr: 5 Max: 0
ANTH 440 BIOTECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Credits 3.00 Fall 03
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
This course focuses on anthropology of the life sciences. We will examine how
this work takes contemporary bioscience as a site for cultural analysis, and
also the allied proposals that this represents an opportunity to renovate
classic anthropological analyses and categories of kinship, reproduction, the
body, life, death and identity.
001 HUM 226 - TTH 02:30PM - 03:50PM Landecker, Hannah Enr: 4 Max: 0
ANTH 482 SEMINAR ON NON-WESTERN CINEMA: THIRD WOR Credits 4.00 Fall 03
Study of significant national cinemas, film movements, and filmmakers of the
Third World from Africa to Latin America and from the Middle East to China.
Includes colonial and postcolonial discourses. Limited enrollment. Also offered
as HART 482.
001 MECN MECN - W 01:00PM - 05:00PM Naficy, Hamid Enr: 1 Max: NA
ANTH 490 DIRECTED HONORS RESEARCH Credits 3.00 Fall 03
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: 0 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: 1 Max: NA
ANTH 506 HISTORY OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL IDEAS Credits 3.00 Fall 03
Graduate version of ANTH 306.
001 SH 460 - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM Faubion, James D. Enr: 5 Max: 0
ANTH 518 GRAPHING, COUNTING, FILMING: REPRESENTAT Credits 3.00 Fall 03
Graduate version of ANTH 318.
001 RH 121 - M 02:00PM - 05:00PM Landecker, Hannah Enr: 2 Max: 0
ANTH 528 VIOLENCE, TERROR AND SOCIAL TRAUMA Credits 3.00 Fall 03
Graduate version of ANTH 328.
001 SH 303 - TTH 04:00PM - 05:20PM Taylor, Julie M. Enr: 0 Max: 0
ANTH 538 READING POPULAR CULTURE Credits 3.00 Fall 03
Graduate version of ANTH 338.
001 GRB 212W - MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM Breglia, Lisa Enr: 0 Max: NA
ANTH 545 THE POLITICS OF THE PAST: ARCHAEOLOGY IN Credits 3.00 Fall 03
Graduate version of ANTH 345.
001 SH 560 - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM McIntosh, Susan K. Enr: 1 Max: 0
ANTH 547 THE U.S. AT A FOREIGN COUNTRY Credits 3.00 Fall 03
Graduate version of ANTH 347.
001 SS 106 - TTH 02:30PM - 03:50PM Faubion, James D. Enr: 0 Max: 0
ANTH 563 EARLY CIVILIZATIONS Credits 3.00 Fall 03
Graduate version of ANTH 363.
001 RH 123 - TTH 01:00PM - 02:20PM McIntosh, Roderick J. Enr: 0 Max: 0
ANTH 595 CULTURES AND COMMUNICATION Credits 3.00 Fall 03
Graduate version of ANTH 395.
001 SH 207B - TTH 01:00PM - 02:20PM Hejazi Martinez, Hutan Enr: 0 Max: NA
Wandless, Ana Maria
ANTH 600 INDEPENDENT STUDY Credits Fall 03
No description.
001 TBA - TBA Marcus, George E. Enr: 4 Max: 0
002 TBA - TBA Faubion, James D. Enr: 6 Max: NA
003 TBA - TBA Georges, Eugenia Enr: 0 Max: NA
004 TBA - TBA Lee, Benjamin Enr: 1 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: 2 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 601 PROSEMINAR IN ANTHROPOLOGY Credits 3.00 Fall 03
Mapping the current fields of anthropological discourses, examining the debates
in and between each of these fields, and discussing how these debates are
conducted in the domains of fieldwork, ethnographic writing, and in the
construction of careers in anthropology.
001 HB 423 - M 02:00PM - 05:00PM Marcus, George E. Enr: 3 Max: 0
ANTH 602 ANTHROPOLOGY PROPOSAL WRITING SEMINAR Credits 3.00 Fall 03
This seminar prepares anthropology graduate students to write a successful
grant proposal. Basic elements of proposal writing, including problem
conceptualization, literature reviews and methods will be covered.
001 SH 562 - T 02:30PM - 05:30PM Georges, Eugenia Enr: 8 Max: 0
ANTH 630 EXPERIMENTAL WRITING & ANTHROPOLOGY Credits 3.00 Fall 03
Graduate version of ANTH 430.
001 SH 562 - W 07:00PM - 10:00PM Taylor, Julie M. Enr: 3 Max: 0
ANTH 640 BIOTECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Credits 3.00 Fall 03
Graduate version of ANTH 440.
001 HUM 226 - TTH 02:30PM - 03:50PM Landecker, Hannah Enr: 2 Max: 0
ANTH 650 PEDAGOGY Credits 3.00 Fall 03
Training in the basic elements of teaching in anthropology to be taken in
conjunction with applied graduate student teaching in ANTH 316. Prerequisite:
third year and above graduate students.
Prereq- Third year and above graduate students.
001 TBA - TBA Marcus, George E. Enr: 5 Max: 0
ANTH 682 SEMINAR ON NON-WESTERN CINEMA: THIRD WOR Credits Fall 03
Graduate version of ANTH 482.
001 MECN MECN - W 01:00PM - 05:00PM Naficy, Hamid Enr: 0 Max: NA
ANTH 800 RESEARCH AND THESIS Credits Fall 03
No description.
001 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 9 Max: 0
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