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CCST 275.00 I'm A Stranger Here Myself 6 credits
Closed: Size: 25, Registered: 23, Waitlist: 0
Synonym: 59063
Éva S Pósfay
What do enculturation, tourism, culture shock, "going native," haptics, cross-cultural adjustment, and third culture kids have in common? How do intercultural transitions shape identity? What is intercultural competence? This course explores theories about intercultural contact and tests their usefulness by applying them to the analysis of world literature, case studies, and the visual arts, and by employing students' intercultural experiences as evidence. From individualized, self-reflective exercises to community-oriented group endeavors, our activities will promote new intercultural paradigms in the classroom and the wider community. Course designed for off-campus returnees, students who have lived abroad, or who have experienced being outsiders.
LCST 245.00 The Critical Toolbox: Who's Afraid of Theory? 6 credits
Open: Size: 20, Registered: 9, Waitlist: 0
Synonym: 59367
Seth E Peabody
This class introduces students to the various theoretical frameworks and the many approaches scholars can use when analyzing a text (whether this text is a film, an image, a literary piece or a performance). What do words like ‘structuralism,’ ‘ecocriticism,’ 'cultural studies,' and ‘postcolonial studies’ refer to? Most importantly, how do they help us understand the world around us? This class will be organized around interdisciplinary theoretical readings and exercises in cultural analysis.
Prerequisite: At least one 200- or 300-level course in Literary/Artistic Analysis (in any language) or instructor permission
POSC 120.00 Democracy and Dictatorship 6 credits
Closed: Size: 30, Registered: 26, Waitlist: 0
Synonym: 58830
Kent Freeze
An introduction to the array of different democratic and authoritarian political institutions in both developing and developed countries. We will also explore key issues in contemporary politics in countries around the world, such as nationalism and independence movements, revolution, regime change, state-making, and social movements.
Waitlist for Juniors and Seniors: POSC 120.WL0 (Synonym 58831)
RELG 300.00 Theories and Methods in the Study of Religion 6 credits
Open: Size: 15, Registered: 6, Waitlist: 0
Synonym: 58986
Michael D McNally
What, exactly, is religion and what conditions of modernity have made it urgent to articulate such a question in the first place? Why does religion exert such force in human society and history? Is it an opiate of the masses or an illusion laden with human wish-fulfillment? Is it a social glue? A subjective experience of the sacred? Is it simply a universalized Protestant Christianity in disguise, useful in understanding, and colonizing, the non-Christian world? This seminar, for junior majors and advanced majors from related fields, explores generative theories from anthropology, sociology, psychology, literary studies, and the history of religions.
SOAN 331.00 Anthropological Thought and Theory 6 credits
Closed: Size: 15, Registered: 15, Waitlist: 0
Synonym: 59010
Constanza C Ocampo-Raeder
A systematic introduction to the theoretical foundations of social and cultural anthropology with special emphasis given to twentieth century British, French and American schools. The course deals with such seminal figures as Morgan, Boas, Malinowski, Radcliffe-Brown, Levi-Straus, Harris, Sahlins, Bourdieu, Geertz, and Appadurai. The reading strikes a balance between ethnographic accounts and theoretical statements.
Prerequisite: Sociology/Anthropology 110 or 111 or instructor permission
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