Rice Course Schedule, Spring 2003
Anthropology (ANTH)
Rice Course Schedule as of 03/03/2003.
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ANTH 200 INTRODUCTION TO THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF Credits 3.00 Spring 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. Enrollment is limited to 80.
001 SH 309 - MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM Englebretson, Robert Enr: 19 Max: NA
ANTH 298 BIOTECHNOLOGY, 1900 TO NOW Credits 3.00 Spring 03
* 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 SH 301 - MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM Landecker, Hannah Enr: 43 Max: 0
ANTH 305 HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS Credits 3.00 Spring 03
* 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 linguistic majors;
may substitute Ling 315. Also offered as LING 305.
Prereq- Ling 200, 300, or 301 or permission of instructor.
001 RH 304 - MWF 02:00PM - 02:50PM Copeland, James E. Enr: 0 Max: NA
ANTH 306 HISTORY OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL IDEAS Credits 3.00 Spring 03
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Introduction to the history of anthropology, its theories, and its methods,
with emphasis on social and cultural anthropology.
001 GRB 211W - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM Faubion, James D. Enr: 21 Max: 0
ANTH 327 GENDER AND SYMBOLISM Credits 3.00 Spring 03
* 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 GRB 212W - W 02:00PM - 05:00PM Taylor, Julie M. Enr: 9 Max: NA
ANTH 329 BODIES, SENSUALITIES & ART Credits 3.00 Spring 03
* 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 207B - TTH 04:00PM - 05:20PM Taylor, Julie M. Enr: 10 Max: 0
ANTH 353 CULTURES OF INDIA Credits 3.00 Spring 03
* 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: 70 Max: 0
ANTH 362 ARCHEOLOGICAL FIELD TECHNIQUES Credits 3.00 Spring 03
* 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 SH 103 - W 02:00PM - 05:00PM McIntosh, Roderick J. Enr: 17 Max: 0
ANTH 372 CULTURES OF CAPITALISM Credits 3.00 Spring 03
* 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: 13 Max: 0
ANTH 375 ABRACADABRA: LANGUAGE AND MEMORY IN SCIE Credits 3.00 Spring 03
* 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 303 - MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM Kelty, Christopher Enr: 22 Max: 0
ANTH 395 CULTURES AND COMMUNICATION Credits 3.00 Spring 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 02:30PM - 03:50PM Lee, Benjamin Enr: 4 Max: 0
ANTH 402 SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS Credits 3.00 Spring 03
* 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 RH 106 - MW 03:00PM - 04:15PM Shibatani, Masayoshi Enr: 0 Max: 0
ANTH 404 INDEPENDENT STUDY Credits Spring 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: 0 Max: NA
002 TBA - TBA Faubion, James D. Enr: 0 Max: NA
003 TBA - TBA Georges, Eugenia Enr: 1 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 408 FIELD TECHNIQUES AND ANALYSIS Credits 3.00 Spring 03
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Continuation of Anth 407/Ling 407. Also offered as LING 408.
Permission of instructor.
001 TBA - TBA Kemmer, Suzanne E. Enr: 0 Max: 0
ANTH 412 RHETORIC Credits 3.00 Spring 03
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Overview of classical theories. Includes intensive discussion of contemporary
theories and applications in a wide variety of disciplines. Also offered as
LING 410.
001 SH 562 - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM Tyler, Stephen A. Enr: 3 Max: 0
ANTH 423 AFRICAN MYTHS & RITUAL Credits 3.00 Spring 03
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Explore and analyze specific myths and rituals which provide legitimation for
community ceremonies and serve as a basis for the negotiation of power and
ideology for members within that community. Readings from classic theorists:
Gennap and Turner and contemporary theorists Werbner, Heusch, Comaroff, and
Ray. Also offered as RELI 423.
001 HUM 119 - MWF 09:00AM - 09:50AM Bongmba, Elias K. Enr: 8 Max: NA
ANTH 446 ADVANCED TOPICS IN BIOMEDICAL ANTHROPOLO Credits 3.00 Spring 03
Seminar on contemporary research on the biomedical aspects of human health and
disease. Includes topics from medical ecology and epidemiology.
Prereq- ANTH 381 or permission of the instructor.
001 SH 207B - F 02:00PM - 05:00PM Georges, Eugenia Enr: 11 Max: NA
ANTH 450 ANTHROPOLOGY IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD: Credits 3.00 Spring 03
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 460 - M 02:00PM - 05:00PM Marcus, George E. Enr: 7 Max: 0
ANTH 455 INTRODUCTION TO SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY S Credits 3.00 Spring 03
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Introduction to the historical and social aspects of science and technology.
Directed towards providing social scientists ways to understand the role of
science and technology in their field sites and research projects; with
additional emphasis on the use of media and internet techniques for qualitative
social science research.
001 SH 562 - M 02:00PM - 05:00PM Kelty, Christopher Enr: 2 Max: NA
Landecker, Hannah
ANTH 460 ADVANCED ARCHAEOLOGICAL THEORY Credits 3.00 Spring 03
History and analysis of the major currents of archaeological theory from the
Encyclopaedist origins of positivism, through cultural evolutionism and
historical particularism, to the New Archaeology and current trends.
Prereq-
Anth 205.
Prereq- Anth 205.
001 SH 103 - W 07:00PM - 10:00PM McIntosh, Roderick J. Enr: 5 Max: 0
ANTH 484 CULTURE, MEDIA, SOCIETY: EXILE & DIASPOR Credits 4.00 Spring 03
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 TBA - W 01:00PM - 05:00PM Naficy, Hamid Enr: 5 Max: 0
ANTH 491 DIRECTED HONORS RESEARCH Credits 3.00 Spring 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: 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: 1 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 Spring 03
Graduate version of Anth 306.
001 GRB 211W - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM Faubion, James D. Enr: 9 Max: 0
ANTH 527 GENDER AND SYMBOLISM Credits 3.00 Spring 03
Graduate version of Anth 327.
001 GRB 212W - W 02:00PM - 05:00PM Taylor, Julie M. Enr: 0 Max: NA
ANTH 529 BODIES, SENSUALITIES, AND ART Credits 3.00 Spring 03
Graduate version of ANTH 329.
001 SH 207B - TTH 04:00PM - 05:20PM Taylor, Julie M. Enr: 0 Max: 0
ANTH 553 CULTURES OF INDIA Credits 3.00 Spring 03
Graduate of verison of Anth 353.
001 SH 309 - TTH 09:25AM - 10:40AM Tyler, Stephen A. Enr: 1 Max: 0
ANTH 562 ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELD TECHNIQUES Credits 3.00 Spring 03
Graduate verison of Anth 362.
001 SH 103 - W 02:00PM - 05:00PM McIntosh, Roderick J. Enr: 1 Max: 0
ANTH 572 CULTURES OF CAPITALISM Credits 3.00 Spring 03
Graduate version of ANTH 372.
001 SH 207B - W 02:00PM - 05:00PM Lee, Benjamin Enr: 3 Max: 0
ANTH 575 ABRACADABRA: LANGUAGE AND MEMORY IN SCIE Credits 3.00 Spring 03
Graduate version of ANTH 375.
001 SH 303 - MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM Kelty, Christopher Enr: 0 Max: 0
ANTH 595 CULTURES AND COMMUNICATION Credits 3.00 Spring 03
Graduate version of Anth 395.
001 SH 207B - TTH 02:30PM - 03:50PM Lee, Benjamin Enr: 4 Max: 0
ANTH 600 INDEPENDENT STUDY Credits Spring 03
No description.
001 TBA - TBA Marcus, George E. Enr: 5 Max: NA
002 TBA - TBA Faubion, James D. Enr: 7 Max: NA
003 TBA - TBA Georges, Eugenia Enr: 3 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: 3 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: 0 Max: NA
ANTH 608 FIELD TECHNIQUES AND ANALYSIS Credits 3.00 Spring 03
Graduate verison of Anth 408.
001 TBA - TBA Kemmer, Suzanne E. Enr: 0 Max: 0
ANTH 612 RHETORIC Credits 3.00 Spring 03
Graduate version of Anth 412.
001 SH 562 - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM Tyler, Stephen A. Enr: 0 Max: 0
ANTH 646 ADVANCED TOPICS IN BIOMEDICAL ANTHROPOLO Credits 3.00 Spring 03
Graduate verison of Anth 446.
Pre-req- Permission of instructor.
001 SH 207B - F 02:00PM - 05:00PM Georges, Eugenia Enr: 0 Max: NA
ANTH 655 INTRODUCTION TO SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY S Credits 3.00 Spring 03
Graduate version of ANTH 455.
001 SH 562 - M 02:00PM - 05:00PM Kelty, Christopher Enr: 4 Max: NA
Landecker, Hannah
ANTH 660 ADVANCED ARCHAEOLOGICAL THEORY Credits 3.00 Spring 03
Graduate version of Anth 460.
001 SH 103 - W 07:00PM - 10:00PM McIntosh, Roderick J. Enr: 0 Max: 0
ANTH 684 CULTURE, MEDIA, SOCIETY: EXILE & DIASPOR Credits 4.00 Spring 03
Graduate verison of Anth 484. Also offered as HART 684.
001 TBA - W 01:00PM - 05:00PM Naficy, Hamid Enr: 3 Max: 0
ANTH 800 RESEARCH AND THESIS Credits Spring 03
No description.
001 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 15 Max: NA
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