Fall 2012 Course Descriptions

The following list of courses is tentative. The list is under continuous revision, courses may be added, revised, or removed without being immediately recorded.

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SUBJECT	COURSE #	COURSE TOPIC	INSTRUCTOR
Anthropological Archaeology
ANAR	153	The Mysterious Maya	Braswell, Geoffrey
ANAR	185	Middle East Desert Cultural Ecology	Levy, Thomas
ANAR	190	Middle East Archaeological Field School	Levy, Thomas
ANAR	191	Advanced Cyber-Archaeology Field School	Levy, Thomas
Biological Anthropology
ANBI	109	Brain Mind Workshop	Semendeferi, K
ANBI	173	Cognition in Animals and Humans	Wakefield, Monica
ANBI	187A	Intern Seminar in Physical Anthropology	Semendeferi, K
ANBI	187C	Intern Seminar in Physical Ethology	Schoeninger, Margaret
Sociocultural Anthropology
ANSC	100	Special Topics: Catholicism and Global Cultures. The Roman Catholic Church is the world's oldest and largest religious institution, and also its most diverse. Although it is highly centralized and hierarchical, it has adapted to countless different cultural milieus around the world. For this reason it is an excellent example of the relation between processes of globalization and localization of meaning, practice, ritual, and experience. This course will focus on reading about and discussion of Catholicism around the world.	Csordas, Thomas
ANSC	100	Special Topics: Global Anthropology and the Ethnography of Social & Cultural Movements.This course explores the relation between global systemic dynamics and the rise and demise of social and cultural movements. It will introduce the more general literature on social movements in both sociology and anthropology and will focus on the nature of movement formation linking the conditions of individual subjects in particular historical conditions to their eventual engagement in larger social projects. The nature of engagement, its religious character, is a central theme and is explored in some depth since it plays a pivotal role in the formation and extinction of socio-cultural movements. Examples from religious, class, ethnic and indigenous movements are used to discuss the major issues.	Friedman, Jonathan
ANSC	100	Special Topics: TBA	STAFF
ANSC	118	Language and Culture	Goldsmith, Trevor
ANSC	146	A Global Health Perspective on HIV	Csordas, Thomas
ANSC	150	Culture and Mental Health	Jenkins, Janis H.
ANSC	170	Modernity and Human Experience	Parish, Steven Martin
ANSC	189	The Anthropology of the End of the World: Millenarian Movements Across Cultures	Bialecki, Jon
Anthropology (Lower Division)
ANTH	1	Introduction to Culture	Goldsmith, Trevor
ANTH	5	Introduction to the Human Skeleton	Schoeninger, Margaret
ANTH	23	Debating Multiculturalism: Race, Ethnicity, and Class in American Society	Ozyurek, Esra
Anthropology (Upper Division)
ANTH	101	Foundations of Social Complexity	Algaze, Guillermo
ANTH	187B	Intern Seminar in Ethnography and Archaeology	Friedman, Jonathan
ANTH	195	Instructional Apprenticeship in Anthropology	Semendeferi, K
ANTH	196A	Thesis Research	Semendeferi, K
ANTH	196A	Thesis Research	Levy, Thomas E
ANTH	197	Field Studies	STAFF
ANTH	198	Directed Group Study	STAFF
ANTH	199	Independent Study	STAFF
Anthropology (Graduate)
ANTH	215	Advanced Topics: Imaginary, symbolic & real: an anthropological approach to mystification.This course is an investigation into the nature and dynamics of representation and creation as social phenomena. It explores the well known triad symbolic/imaginary/real developed in work of psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan and debated as well as applied in numerous anthropological works. The issues raised in the seventies ranging from symbolism to fetishism disappeared although the notion of the “imaginary” became an important foundation in the work of philosophers such as Castoriadis and adopted and discussed by anthropologists in France (Augé, Godelier and others). The question of symbols that “stand for themselves” was raised in similar fashion but in a very different framework in the work of Roy Wagner. This course then attempts to grapple with the nature of representation/interpretation and world creation since they occupy a central role in anthropological theory and research.	Friedman, Jonathan
ANTH	230	Department Colloquium	STAFF
ANTH	280A	Core Seminar in Social Anthropology	Friedman, Jonathan
ANTH	281A	Introductory Seminar	STAFF
ANTH	284	Master Writing Practicum	Ozyurek, Esra
ANTH	285	Grants Writing Practicum	Algaze, Guillermo
ANTH	288	Archeology Practicum	Levy, Thomas
ANTH	295	Master's Thesis Prep	STAFF
ANTH	297	Research Practicum	STAFF
ANTH	298	Independent Study	STAFF
ANTH	500	Apprentice Teaching	Semendeferi, K