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American University Catalog 2022-2023 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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Arts Management (Graduate Courses) |
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AMGT-696 Selected Topics: Non-Recurring (1-6)
Topics vary by section. Repeatable for credit with different topic.
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AMGT-701 Discovery and Decision Making in the Arts (3)
This course inspires, informs, and improves the ways arts managers investigate their world through structured inquiry, and enhances their ability to make impactful, resilient, and responsive decisions grounded in that inquiry. Students explore academic and applied research in the arts using quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-method approaches. They learn how and when such approaches lead to productive results and engage artistic processes and practices as equally valid and powerful forms of inquiry. This knowledge is applied to the development of the student’s capstone research plan and supports successful progress toward capstone completion. Prerequisite: AMGT-794 . Restriction: Arts Management (MA) .
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AMGT-702 Master’s Portfolio Seminar (1-6)
Independent creative and analytical work toward a project in lieu of thesis for the Arts Management (MA) . Grading: Pass/Fail only. Prerequisite: completion of 12 credit hours. Restriction: Arts Management (MA) . Permission: program director.
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AMGT-793 Directed Research in the Arts (1-6)
Independent research project in lieu of thesis for the Arts Management (MA) . Grading: Pass/Fail only. Prerequisite: completion of 12 credit hours. Restriction: Arts Management (MA) . Permission: program director.
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AMGT-794 Literature Review and Proposal Writing (1)
This course helps Arts Management (MA) students formulate and execute their capstone project. It introduces students to strategies around problem formulation, basic research design, literature review development, proposal formulation, and capstone defense strategies. Usually Offered: summer. Restriction: Arts Management (MA) . Permission: instructor.
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AMGT-797 Master’s Thesis Research (1-6)
Master’s thesis seminar for the Arts Management (MA) . Grading: SP/UP only.
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AMGT-798 Seminar in Arts Management (3)
This course for the Arts Management (MA) provides the opportunity to synthesize concepts and further analyze professional, organizational, and inter-organizational issues. Usually Offered: spring. Restriction: Arts Management (MA) .
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American Studies (Undergraduate Courses) |
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AMST-140 Washington, D.C.: Life inside a Monument (3)
Explores the unique nature of Washington, D.C. as a transnational city, the nation’s capital, and a regional center for art, community activism, and politics in the region. AU Core Habits of Mind: Cultural Inquiry. Usually Offered: fall and spring.
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AMST-194 Community Service-Learning Project (1)
Grading: Pass/Fail only. Permission: instructor and Center for Community Engagement & Service.
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AMST-196 Selected Topics: Non-Recurring (1-6)
Topics vary by section. Repeatable for credit with different topic.
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AMST-200 American Dreams/American Lives (3)
This course explores the American Dream as a historically contingent concept that was crucial to the creation of national identity and social unity, but which has always been contested. The course centers marginalized perspectives and engages their alternative dreams and visions. Students analyze and synthesize multiple kinds of primary sources (such as speeches, fiction, film, music, art) and disciplinary perspectives (sociology, history, economics, cultural studies, ethnography) to better appreciate the diversity of U.S.-American lives and cultures. AU Core Integrative Requirement: Diversity and Equity. Usually Offered: fall.
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AMST-215 Colloquium in American Studies (1)
Topics vary by section. Rotating topics delve deeply into a particular aspect or case study in American studies. Repeatable for credit with different topic.
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AMST-220 Topics in American Popular Culture (3)
Topics vary by section. An interdisciplinary study through cinema, literature, music, TV, and folklore of American popular culture. Topics consider how race, ethnicity, class, gender, age, and nationalism, among other variables, can shape the content and popular reception of mass culture. Usually Offered: spring. Repeatable for credit with different topic.
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AMST-225 Topics in American Studies (3)
Topics vary by section. An interdisciplinary examination of how race, ethnicity, class, gender, age, region, nationalism, and other variables shape particular American experiences and institutions. Rotating topics include early America, modern America, public health, the American West, indigeneity, criminal justice, immigration, disability, environmentalism, activism, sexuality, literary movements, and the American imagination. Usually Offered: fall and spring. Repeatable for credit with different topic.
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AMST-240 Poverty and Culture FA4 (3)
Students explore and debate rival theories about the causes and consequences of poverty. Why poverty occurs, why certain people are poor, how poverty influences family and community life, and how the poor respond to their situation and sometimes try to change it. AU Core Habits of Mind: Ethical Reasoning. Usually Offered: spring.
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AMST-256 The Activist Imagination in America (3)
This course explores a range of texts, including fiction, poetry, memoir, film, art, pamphlet, and manifesto, that illustrate how writers imagined social justice in America. As authors and activists of the past found themselves working through the issues, concerns, and anxieties that dominated their particular historical moment, current readers make use of their texts for a similar kind of understanding, accountability, and demonstration in the present. In this course students actively engage literature with a critical eye toward the present. Crosslist: LIT-256 .
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AMST-260 Asian American Experiences (3)
This interdisciplinary course explores the lives, thoughts, history, and cultures of Asian Americans by examining materials drawn from diverse fields including oral and immigration history, social theory, media, film, and arts. This class not only examines the lives of Asian Americans in the United States but also analyzes the effects of racial politics on Asian Americans as one among several marginalized racialized groups in our society. Racial prejudice, social oppression, political discrimination, and the creativity and resilience of Asian-American cultures and struggles are all explored. AU Core Integrative Requirement: Diversity and Equity. Crosslist: APDS-260 .
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AMST-275 Settler Colonial Studies (3)
This course interrogates the sociohistorical phenomenon of settler colonialism in the United States from 1492 to the present-day. Students are introduced to theories of settler colonialism as well as the histories of boarding schools, Indian removal, the reservation system, the militarization of Indian country, indigenous resistance, and environmental injustice. Students produce a research paper or podcast that applies settler colonial theory to a specific time and place in U.S. history. Interdisciplinary and intersectional in nature, this course includes readings in history as well as critical Indigenous, ethnic, and feminist and queer studies. AU Core Habits of Mind: Socio-Historical Inquiry.
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AMST-285 Disability, Health, and Normality (3)
We use words like “disability,” “health,” and “illness” every day, and yet we rarely pause to consider how our understanding of what is normal influences how we understand the present and how we imagine futures. In this course, students explore questions related to disability from an intersectional, interdisciplinary perspective. Based on narratives and knowledges created by disabled people, ranging from scholarly works and life writing to vlogs, television shows, and art, students critically examine the history of Western medicine, law, politics, and culture. Subjects range from depression and anxiety to autism to spina bifida, as well as Deaf culture, chronic illnesses, and body size. Students gain a deeper understanding of how health, ability, and normality are concepts that can continue structural inequalities in our contemporary moment. AU Core Integrative Requirement: Diversity and Equity. Crosslist: HLTH-285 and WGSS-285 . Usually Offered: fall.
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AMST-294 Community Service-Learning Project (1)
Grading: Pass/Fail only. Permission: instructor and Center for Community Engagement & Service.
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AMST-296 Selected Topics: Non-Recurring (1-6)
Topics vary by section. Repeatable for credit with different topic.
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AMST-320 American Cultural History (3)
Topics vary by section. Courses explore political and economic affairs, international relations, social change, literature, drama, music, and fine and popular arts in American history. Usually Offered: fall and spring. Repeatable for credit with different topic.
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AMST-330 Contemporary American Culture (3)
Topics vary by section. Interdisciplinary explorations of American media, politics, ethnography, literature, and art. Usually Offered: fall and spring. Repeatable for credit with different topic.
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AMST-340 Community Activism and Regional Studies (3)
Topics vary by section. Explores the contemporary and historical development of Washington D.C. and the Chesapeake region; or invites students to interact with communities and the environment in the area. Usually Offered: fall and spring. Repeatable for credit with different topic.
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AMST-385 Mental Health, Madness, and Neuroqueerness (3)
Ideas about mental health, illness, and difference including therapy, self care, and mindfulness; autism, anxiety, and depression; ADHD, BPD, ODC, and PTSD; ASMR, medication, and substance use surround us every day. This course traces the longer histories of mental health discourses and encounters the lived experience of madness and neurodivergence. Centering the life stories and knowledge of those who have been labeled or claimed the label of mad, neuroqueer, and/or mentally ill, students critically examine how ideas about mental health and wellness are situated in systems of colonialism, white supremacy, capitalism, and patriarchy. From the Mad Pride movement to neurodiversity, they learn about alternative ways of understanding different mental states and explore visions for a society that holds space for all of us. AU Core Integrative Requirement: Diversity and Equity. Recommendation: AMST-285 or HLTH-285 .
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AMST-390 Independent Reading Course in American Studies (1-6)
Permission: instructor and program director.
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AMST-394 Community Service-Learning Project (1)
Grading: Pass/Fail only. Permission: instructor and Center for Community Engagement & Service.
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AMST-396 Selected Topics: Non-Recurring (1-6)
Topics vary by section. Repeatable for credit with different topic.
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AMST-400 Interpreting American Culture (3)
This seminar critically explores contemporary American popular culture and trains students in American Studies theory and methods. The course discusses emerging and controversial approaches to American culture. Theories are applied to a variety of primary sources such as Internet shows, films, art, and social media. AU Core Integrative Requirement: Written Communication and Information Literacy II. Usually Offered: spring. Prerequisite: AMST-200 and completion of Written Communication and Information Literacy I requirement.
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AMST-410 Senior Thesis (3)
Original interdisciplinary research as a capstone to the major. Usually Offered: fall and spring. Prerequisite: AMST-400 .
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AMST-415 Islam in America (3)
When did the first Muslims arrive in North America, and how did they get here? Starting from the earliest colonial expeditions, Muslims have a longer and more impactful history in the Americas than is widely known. This course traces the history of Muslim people in the United States from the first known figures to the present day. Throughout, the course examines how Islam has played a significant role in shaping American religious practice and identity, along with the ways Islam and Muslims have been represented as a threat to the American project. Special attention is given to the ethnic, geographic, racial, and cultural diversity of American Muslims. AU Core Integrative Requirement: Diversity and Equity. Crosslist: AFAM-415 and AWST-415 .
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AMST-420 U.S. Race, Politics, and Power (3)
This seminar explores emerging approaches to understanding U.S. politics, relations of power, and race-making. The course explores a broad range of subjects such as imperialism, state terror, settler colonialism, reproductive justice, im/migration, racism, gender, transnationality, sexuality and more, all from an interdisciplinary perspective. Merging history and theory, the class situates its own critical perspectives within scholarly conversations and U.S. politics today.
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AMST-490 Independent Study Project in American Studies (1-6)
Permission: instructor and program director.
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AMST-491 Internship in American Studies (1-6)
Practical experience in a local organization such as a government office, museum, arts agency, or social action group. The internship is supervised by faculty and helps students to translate American Studies theory and method into professional skills and opportunities. Permission: instructor and program director.
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AMST-494 Community Service-Learning Project (1)
Grading: Pass/Fail only. Permission: instructor and Center for Community Engagement & Service.
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AMST-496 Selected Topics: Non-Recurring (1-6)
Topics vary by section. Repeatable for credit with different topic.
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Anthropology (Undergraduate Courses) |
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ANTH-110 Culture and Power FA3 (3)
This course explores how we can understand human social and cultural diversity, as well as related issues such as race and ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and inequality. It asks what is culture, how do we make sense of human behavior that appears to be radically different than our own, and how power relations shape human lives and human behavior. Students have an opportunity to practice the methodology of ethnography, which aims to understand the lives of others by living with and participating actively in their lives, thus attempting to see and experience the world as they do. Ultimately, the course shows how anthropology and related social sciences and humanities offer tools not just to better understand others but also to better understand oneself. AU Core Habits of Mind: Cultural Inquiry. AU Core Integrative Requirement: Diversity and Equity. Usually Offered: fall, spring, and summer.
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ANTH-150 Anthropology of Life in the United States FA4 (3)
How should we make sense of the inequality that so marks life in the United States today? This course helps participants understand some of the multiple forms of inequality shaping U.S. life, including those along lines of race, class, gender, sexuality, and ability. The course examines the relationship between these inequalities and major phenomena shaping the past, present, and future of the United States, such as capitalism, slavery, relationships between the U.S. government and Native American peoples, imperialism, militarization, and war. The class links readings and discussions to significant current events and culminates in individual research and analysis employing anthropological and related socio-historical methods. AU Core Habits of Mind: Socio-Historical Inquiry. AU Core Integrative Requirement: Diversity and Equity. Usually Offered: fall.
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ANTH-194 Community Service-Learning Project (1)
Grading: Pass/Fail only. Permission: instructor and Center for Community Engagement & Service.
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ANTH-196 Selected Topics: Non-Recurring (1-6)
Topics vary by section. Repeatable for credit with different topic.
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ANTH-210 Race and Racism FA3 (3)
This course traces the development of the race concept, beginning with the emergence of “pre-racial” categories and continuing into the present period of “post-racialism.” It examines the invention and development of race as an idea over time; how race and racism have operated in different geographic and historical contexts; the effects of racism; and large and small efforts to challenge racism. This course also examines how race has been mutually constructed with sexism, heterosexism, classism, and other essentialist forms of oppression. AU Core Habits of Mind: Socio-Historical Inquiry. AU Core Integrative Requirement: Diversity and Equity. Usually Offered: fall and spring.
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ANTH-215 Sex, Gender, and Culture FA3 (3)
This course explores the role of sex, gender, and sexuality in shaping our lives and our world. Sex, gender, and sexuality are critical components of every aspect of societies globally. Yet, there is nothing inevitable or “natural” about the roles that sex, gender, and sexuality play in a society and in people’s lives. Students will examine the multiple, fluid, changeable, ambiguous, and contradictory ways people around the world experience sex, gender, and sexuality. Readings will draw on peoples and cultures around the world with emphasis on non-normative sexualities and genders. Case studies will include gender fluidity, patriarchy and sexism, feminism, LGBTQI+ communities, trans, power, inequality, kinship, religion, the military, and the material effects of sex, gender, and sexuality. AU Core Habits of Mind: Cultural Inquiry. AU Core Integrative Requirement: Diversity and Equity. Usually Offered: fall, spring, and summer.
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ANTH-220 Living in Multicultural Societies FA3 (3)
Foreign trade, foreign aid, tourism, and migration establish ties between peoples and cultures in spite of political and historical divisions. This course examines the effect of international migration and the growing “one-world” economy on the daily lives of peoples around the world and in the emerging multicultural urban centers in the United States. Usually Offered: spring.
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ANTH-225 Language and Human Experience FA1 (3)
How do humans use language and how does language shape our experiences in and of the world? This course explores language as a social, cultural, political, and economic phenomenon using case studies from around the world, including spoken languages, sign languages, and even texting. The course examines attitudes about the speakers of different languages and how these attitudes reinforce or challenge stereotypes and inequalities related to race, ethnicity, gender, class, age, and nationality. It also explores the relationship between language and identity and how language reflects and shapes political and economic relationships. AU Core Habits of Mind: Cultural Inquiry. Usually Offered: fall.
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ANTH-235 The Buried History of the United States FA2 (3)
This course introduces how archaeology reconstructs the history of the land that today is considered the United States within the larger context of the Americas. The course looks at the way archaeologists use artifacts, written records, and oral history to tell the story of life from before the era of European colonization to the present. There is an emphasis on artifact and document interpretation, colonialism, violence, genocide, resistance, architecture, capitalism and other political-economic systems, and the diverse experiences of Native American, African, Asian, and European peoples in the Americas. AU Core Habits of Mind: Socio-Historical Inquiry. Usually Offered: spring.
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ANTH-250 Human Origins FA5 (3)
The contributions that physical anthropology and archaeology can make toward an understanding of the origins and development of humankind. Includes genetics, the principles of evolution as applied to humans, the nonhuman primates and their behavior, human fossils, and the archaeology of the New and Old Worlds. Usually Offered: fall.
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ANTH-251 Anthropological Theory (3)
Exploration of a variety of current perspectives in cultural anthropology. The kinds of questions anthropologists ask in seeking to understand cultural variation and diverse human experience. The relevance of anthropology to life in a changing, multicultural world.
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ANTH-253 Introduction to Archaeology (3)
Archaeology as a subfield of anthropology. Includes the history of archaeology, methods of archaeological excavation and analysis, the historical archaeology of seventeenth and eighteenth century America, paleolithic archaeology in the Old World, the prehistory of North and South America, and other current discoveries and issues within the field. Usually Offered: spring.
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ANTH-254 Language and Culture (3)
Examines connections between language, culture, and society. Includes grammars as systems of knowledge; language and cognition; structure of everyday discourse; language diversity; speech communities; language change; and literacy and language planning. Usually Offered: spring.
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ANTH-294 Community Service-Learning Project (1)
Grading: Pass/Fail only. Permission: instructor and Center for Community Engagement & Service.
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ANTH-296 Selected Topics: Non-Recurring (1-6)
Topics vary by section. Repeatable for credit with different topic.
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ANTH-311 Anthropological Studies: Turkana Basin Institute (3)
Topics vary by section. Students attend lectures at the Turkana Basin Institute (TBI) and conduct research and fieldwork in the Turkana basin in Kenya. Topics include paleoanthropology, archaeology, and human evolution as influenced by evidence uncovered in East Africa. Repeatable for credit with different topic. AU Abroad: Kenya: Turkana Basin.
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ANTH-331 Taboos (3)
Exploration of those persons, items, experiences, and acts which so frighten and repel humans that they try to prohibit them. Includes discussion of subjects rich in taboo and sensitivity including sexuality, witchcraft, cannibalism, human-animal relations, madness, and death. Why taboos emerge, how they are enforced, and when they are violated. Prerequisite: ANTH-251 .
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ANTH-334 Environmental Justice (3)
Focuses on issues of inequalities attending the destruction of resources, the siting of dangerous facilities, dumping of toxic wastes, and the development of technologies that harm some people while benefitting others. Case studies from North America, Latin America, Africa, the Arctic, Pacific, and Caribbean examine questions about history, social relations, power, connections among the world’s societies, and competing values.
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ANTH-337 Anthropology of Genocide (3)
Examines questions concerning how individuals, groups, and social institutions legitimize the power to repress, coerce, and kill, how victims experience and interpret their suffering, how “ordinary people” come to accept and justify violent regimes, and the possibility of constructing an understanding of genocide that extends across cultures and from individual impulse to global conflict. Case studies include genocide in the Americas, the Nazi Holocaust, and ethnic cleansing in Central Africa and Eastern Europe.
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ANTH-350 Special Topics (3)
Topics vary by section. Cross-cultural comparison and analysis within selected culture areas. Rotating topics include human osteology, language and sexuality, student activism and social justice, and archaeology of the Chesapeake Bay region. Repeatable for credit with different topic.
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ANTH-365 Social Ecology of Food (3)
This course surveys theory and ethnography at the intersections of food and ecology and explores the importance of food to local and global ecologies, interrogates the relationship of food production and consumption to political and environmental factors, and develops an understanding of ways food influences global and personal politics. Readings draw from anthropology, political ecology, and geography. Usually Offered: alternate springs (odd years).
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ANTH-394 Community Service-Learning Project (1)
Grading: Pass/Fail only. Permission: instructor and Center for Community Engagement & Service.
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ANTH-396 Selected Topics: Non-Recurring (1-6)
Topics vary by section. Repeatable for credit with different topic.
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ANTH-421 Health Geographies (3)
Surveys theory and ethnographic accounts of geographically-concentrated health disparity. Examines geographic patterns impacting health differences and inequities. Readings draw from human geography, political economy, ethnography, and human health. Subject matter reflects how space is constructed, transformed, inter-connected and experiences as a variable of health. Incorporates training in mapping methodologies. Crosslist: ANTH-621 . Usually Offered: fall.
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ANTH-422 Neoliberal Globalization and Health (3)
Provides grounding to central theories of globalization as neoliberalism as they relate to health, focusing on their global, domestic, and historical dimensions. Contextualizes neoliberal globalization and its effects through an examination of healthcare provisioning, the healthcare field, and the current global health landscape. Crosslist: ANTH-622 . Usually Offered: fall.
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ANTH-423 Militarization and Health (3)
Explores intersections of militarization, technological innovation, civil unrest and health through a survey if international conflicts. Analyzes the ways that profit-based, technology-driven processes of militarization effect and shape processes of statecraft, displacement, and gendered and racial violence, and examines how these combined processes impact health, healthcare and patient advocacy globally. Crosslist: ANTH-623 . Usually Offered: fall.
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ANTH-424 Science, Technology and Health (3)
Grounded in critical medical anthropology, this course draws upon the philosophy of science, the history of science, and the sociology of knowledge to examine the interlinkages of science and technology and the implications of their relationship for the healthcare industry, healthcare practitioners, and human health. Crosslist: ANTH-624 . Usually Offered: spring.
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ANTH-425 Health, Care, and Social Movements (3)
Explores key theories of social change and surveys historical and contemporary social movements, with a particular focus on the relationship between technological innovation, health, and social struggle. Students analyze historical and structural determinants of health and conceptualize movement-based action as a means of collectively caring for individuals and communities. Crosslist: ANTH-625 . Usually Offered: spring.
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ANTH-439 Culture, History, Power, Place (3)
Topics vary by section. Examination of a particular culture area to provide insight into the conditions that produced distinctive cultures in certain geographical regions. Rotating culture areas include North American Indians, Latin America, Mexico and Central America, African American women, India, Africa, China, and Japan. Crosslist: ANTH-639 . Usually Offered: fall and spring. Repeatable for credit with different topic.
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ANTH-440 Contemporary Ethnographies (3)
Unlike much scholarly writing, the best ethnographies engage readers emotionally and intellectually to provoke new ways of viewing the world by sensitively portraying the complexity of human lives, including the texture of people’s daily experiences and the larger forces shaping their lives. This seminar explores the art, craft, history, and politics of ethnography through a close reading of cutting-edge ethnographies and through students’ own ethnographic research and writing. Major contemporary approaches to ethnography feature prominently, such as feminist ethnography, decolonizing scholarship, Critical Race Theory, political economy, self-reflexivity, auto-ethnography, and multi-media ethnography. AU Core Integrative Requirement: Written Communication and Information Literacy II. Prerequisite: ANTH-251 and completion of Written Communication and Information Literacy I requirement.
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ANTH-442 Public Anthropology (3)
Explores efforts to build a public anthropology that advances popular struggles for economic freedom, human rights, and social justice while maintaining a critique of state power. The course also examines how such work engages conventional approaches to research, publication, and career advancement, and suggests pathways to alternative anthropological careers. Crosslist: ANTH-642 .
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ANTH-452 Anthropological Research Methods (3)
An introduction to research methods used within the field of anthropology, including ethnography, the distinctive tool of the field. Includes research design, data collection, quantitative and qualitative analysis. Ethics and pragmatics of research are discussed, including research funding and proposal writing. Prerequisite: ANTH-251 and one other anthropology course. Note: Prepares students for ANTH-453 .
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ANTH-453 Senior Seminar in Anthropology (3)
This capstone seminar is the culmination of undergraduate studies in anthropology. Students pursue senior capstone projects while consolidating knowledge about key concepts and topics in public anthropology including power, inequality, social justice, race/ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and class. AU Core Integrative Requirement: Capstone. Usually Offered: spring. Restriction: Anthropology (BA) .
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ANTH-490 Independent Study Project in Anthropology (1-6)
Permission: instructor and department chair.
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ANTH-491 Internship in Anthropology (1-6)
Permission: instructor and department chair.
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ANTH-494 Community Service-Learning Project (1)
Grading: Pass/Fail only. Permission: instructor and Center for Community Engagement & Service.
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ANTH-496 Selected Topics: Non-Recurring (1-6)
Topics vary by section. Repeatable for credit with different topic.
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ANTH-498 Senior Thesis in Anthropology (1-6)
Opportunity for qualified undergraduates to carry out anthropological research under supervision of members of the faculty. Development of a written paper and participation in senior thesis seminar are required. Repeatable for credit. Permission: department chair.
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Anthropology (Graduate and Advanced Undergraduate Courses) |
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ANTH-060 Summer Field School: Archaeology (0)
Noncredit participation in the excavation of an archaeological site. Training varies depending on the site, but usually includes site surveying, archaeological engineering, techniques of excavation, flora, fauna, and soil analysis, field laboratory practice, and on-site computer data processing. Usually Offered: summer.
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ANTH-096 Selected Topics: Non-Recurring (0)
Topics vary by section. Repeatable for credit with different topic.
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ANTH-531 Topics in Archaeology (3)
Topics vary by section. Rotating topics include historical archaeology, artifact analysis, archaeology of the Chesapeake, archaeology of the Potomac Valley, Aztec, Inca, and Maya, and archaeology and politics. Repeatable for credit with different topic.
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ANTH-534 Class and Culture (3)
Discussion of the way that anthropologists have used and developed the concept of class as a way to understand patterns of social inequality. The variation in relationships of class to economic, social, and political structures in different societies and how class experiences and struggles influence and are influenced by the cultural norms and values in different social systems.
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ANTH-541 Public Anthropology and State Policy (3)
This course traces shifting relationships among governments, anthropologists, and ordinary people. Readings and class discussions explore the rise of “applied” anthropology as part of the processes of colonialism and capital accumulation. Also covered are colonial encounters, immigration and internment, neocolonialism, and structural adjustment.
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ANTH-544 Topics in Public Anthropology (3)
Topics vary by section. The application of anthropological method and theory to solving problems in contemporary society. Rotating topics include anthropology of education, health, culture and illness, public archaeology, media activism, and anthropology of human rights. Repeatable for credit with different topic.
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ANTH-560 Summer Field School: Archaeology (1-9)
Topics vary by section. Active participation in the excavation of an archaeological site. Training varies depending on the site, but usually includes site surveying, archaeological engineering, techniques of excavation, flora, fauna, and soil analysis, field laboratory practice, and on-site computer data processing. Usually Offered: summer. Repeatable for credit.
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ANTH-590 Independent Reading Course in Anthropology (1-6)
Permission: instructor and department chair.
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ANTH-596 Selected Topics: Non-Recurring (1-6)
Topics vary by section. Repeatable for credit with different topic.
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Anthropology (Graduate Courses) |
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ANTH-601 The Craft of Anthropology I (3)
In combination with ANTH-602, this intensive seminar provides broad intradisciplinary theoretical and methodical training to prepare students to become anthropologists. Students explore central anthropological themes through classic and contemporary texts in sociocultural anthropology, archeology, bioanthropology, and linguistic anthropology, and conduct research using diverse methodologies. Usually Offered: fall. Grading: A-F only. Corequisite: ANTH-602 .
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ANTH-602 The Craft of Anthropology II (3)
In combination with ANTH-601, this intensive seminar provides broad intradisciplinary theoretical and methodical training to prepare students to become anthropologists. Students explore central anthropological themes through classic and contemporary texts in sociocultural anthropology, archeology, bioanthropology, and linguistic anthropology, and conduct research using diverse methodologies. Usually Offered: fall. Grading: A-F only. Corequisite: ANTH-601 .
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ANTH-603 The Craft of Anthropology III (3)
Continuation of ANTH-601 and ANTH-602. In combination with ANTH-604, this intensive seminar provides broad intradisciplinary theoretical and methodical training to prepare students to become anthropologists. Students explore central anthropological themes through classic and contemporary texts in sociocultural anthropology, archeology, bioanthropology, and linguistic anthropology, and conduct research using diverse methodologies. Usually Offered: spring. Grading: A-F only. Prerequisite: ANTH-601 and ANTH-602 . Corequisite: ANTH-604 .
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ANTH-604 The Craft of Anthropology IV (3)
Continuation of ANTH-601 and ANTH-602. In combination with ANTH-603, this intensive seminar provides broad intradisciplinary theoretical and methodical training to prepare students to become anthropologists. Students explore central anthropological themes through classic and contemporary texts in sociocultural anthropology, archeology, bioanthropology, and linguistic anthropology, and conduct research using diverse methodologies. Usually Offered: spring. Grading: A-F only. Prerequisite: ANTH-601 and ANTH-602 . Corequisite: ANTH-603 .
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ANTH-621 Health Geographies (3)
Surveys theory and ethnographic accounts of geographically-concentrated health disparity. Examines geographic patterns impacting health differences and inequities. Readings draw from human geography, political economy, ethnography, and human health. Subject matter reflects how space is constructed, transformed, inter-connected and experiences as a variable of health. Incorporates training in mapping methodologies. Crosslist: ANTH-421 . Usually Offered: fall.
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ANTH-622 Neoliberal Globalization and Health (3)
Provides grounding to central theories of globalization as neoliberalism as they relate to health, focusing on their global, domestic, and historical dimensions. Contextualizes neoliberal globalization and its effects through an examination of healthcare provisioning, the healthcare field, and the current global health landscape. Crosslist: ANTH-422 . Usually Offered: fall.
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ANTH-623 Militarization and Health (3)
Explores intersections of militarization, technological innovation, civil unrest and health through a survey if international conflicts. Analyzes the ways that profit-based, technology-driven processes of militarization effect and shape processes of statecraft, displacement, and gendered and racial violence, and examines how these combined processes impact health, healthcare and patient advocacy globally. Crosslist: ANTH-423 . Usually Offered: fall.
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ANTH-624 Science, Technology and Health (3)
Grounded in critical medical anthropology, this course draws upon the philosophy of science, the history of science, and the sociology of knowledge to examine the interlinkages of science and technology and the implications of their relationship for the healthcare industry, healthcare practitioners, and human health. Crosslist: ANTH-424 . Usually Offered: spring.
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ANTH-625 Health, Care, and Social Movements (3)
Explores key theories of social change and surveys historical and contemporary social movements, with a particular focus on the relationship between technological innovation, health, and social struggle. Students analyze historical and structural determinants of health and conceptualize movement-based action as a means of collectively caring for individuals and communities. Crosslist: ANTH-425 . Usually Offered: spring.
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ANTH-635 Race, Gender and Social Justice (3)
Topics vary by section. This seminar explores the disjunction between biological myths of race and gender and their social construction as credible institutions; the historical, economic, and political roots of inequalities; the institutions and ideologies that buttress and challenge power relations; and the implications of social science teaching and research for understanding social class, race, and gender discrimination. Issues of advocacy for social change are also explored. Usually Offered: spring. Repeatable for credit with different topic. Permission: instructor.
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ANTH-637 Discourse, Text, and Voice (3)
Topics vary by section. This seminar reviews current approaches to studies of narrative and conversation, and the insights into social location, ideology, and claims to power which such studies disclose. Usually Offered: spring. Repeatable for credit with different topic. Restriction: graduate anthropology program.
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ANTH-639 Culture, History, Power, Place (3)
Topics vary by section. Examination of a particular culture area to provide insight into the conditions that produced distinctive cultures in certain geographical regions. Rotating culture areas include North American Indians, Latin America, Mexico and Central America, African American women, India, Africa, China, and Japan. Crosslist: ANTH-439 . Usually Offered: fall and spring. Repeatable for credit with different topic.
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ANTH-640 Current Issues in Anthropology (3)
Topics vary by section. Rotating topics include issues such as social inequality, urban nature, militarism and state violence, reading/resisting neoliberalism, and Southwest archaeology. Usually Offered: fall and spring. Repeatable for credit with different topic. Restriction: graduate anthropology program.
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ANTH-642 Public Anthropology (3)
Explores efforts to build a public anthropology which advances popular struggles for economic freedom, human rights, and social justice While maintaining a critique of state power. The course also examines how such work engages conventional approaches to research, publication, and career advancement, and suggests pathways to alternative anthropological careers. Crosslist: ANTH-442 .
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ANTH-652 Anthropological Research Design (3)
An introduction to research methods used within the field of anthropology, including ethnography, the distinctive tool of the field. Includes research design, data collection, quantitative and qualitative analysis. Ethics and pragmatics of research are discussed, including research funding and proposal writing. Usually Offered: spring. Restriction: graduate anthropology program.
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ANTH-653 Advanced Methods: Ethnographic Writing (3)
This seminar explores the craft, art, and politics of ethnographic writing through intensive ethnographic research, writing, and reading, with a focus on the importance of ethnography and its potential as a force for social justice. Students conduct an ethnographic study and produce frequent writing assignments while dissecting exemplary ethnographic texts from anthropology and related disciplines including sociology, investigative journalism, narrative nonfiction, fiction, radio/podcasts, and film. Grading: A-F only. Prerequisite: ANTH-652 .
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ANTH-654 Topics in Environmental Anthropology (3)
Topics vary by section. Surveys theory and ethnography in environmental anthropology. Rotating topics explore important themes in environment anthropology including environmental conservation, socionatural disasters, and systems of food production and consumption. Readings draw from anthropology, political ecology, and geography. Usually Offered: alternate falls (even years). Repeatable for credit with different topic. Grading: A-F only.
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