2024-2025 Academic Year

Fall 2024

ANTH 101 Intro to Cultural Anthropology
This course is a comprehensive introduction to how cultural anthropologists study culture and society in diverse contexts. We will use ethnographic case studies from across the world to examine the ways people experience and transform social relationships and culture in areas including families, gender, ethnicity, health, religion, exchange, science, and even what it means to be a person. We will examine how culture and society are embedded within, shape, and are shaped by forces of economics, politics, and environment. Offered every semester.

ANTH 212 Development Anthropology
Sociocultural change, development, and modernization in both Western society and the Third World are examined in terms of theory and practice. Emphasis is on the planning, administration, and evaluation of development projects in agriculture, energy, education, health, and nutrition. The increasingly important role of professional anthropologists and anthropological data is examined in the context of government policies and international business. Offered every other year.

ANTH 400 Senior Colloquium
Offered every fall semester, senior anthropology majors will meet to learn about professional career opportunities in anthropology as well as a write a research paper that incorporates primary sources in anthropological writing and/or original anthropological scholarship involving fieldwork or laboratory research.Prerequisite: Research in Anthropology course.

Spring 2025

ANTH 216 Medical Anthropology
Comparative analysis of health, illness, and nutrition within environmental and socio-cultural contexts. Evolution and geographical distribution of disease, how different societies have learned to cope with illness, and the ways traditional and modern medical systems interact. Offered every other year.

LALC 300 Indig Movements in Latin Amer
Cross-listed with ANTH 345-02. The goal of this course is to analyze contemporary Indigenous Movements in Latin America through a historic and ethnographic lens. We will explore and discuss the key demands of indigenous peoples, their strategies to negotiate at the national level as well as the policies that have been developed in response to indigenous activism in the region. We will discuss the various levels of success indigenous movements have accomplished in different countries, and analyze the explanations given to understand such differences. Using texts from a range of Latin American countries, this course will begin by doing a historical analysis of the position of Indigenous peoples after independence, during the nation-building processes, and their strategies to resist assimilation. We will discuss the particularities of indigenous identity in a region where the colonial hierarchies based on class and ethnicity persists and shapes privilege of lighter skinned Latin Americans and discrimination towards indigenous peoples. We will analyze contemporary intercultural policies in both education and health to learn about the possibilities and limitations of the concept of "interculturalidad." This approach, meant to improve the recognition of indigenous perspectives and culture has oftentimes resulted in the cooption of indigenous peoples demands.

ANTH 345 Indig Movements in Latin Amer
Cross-listed with LALC 300-02. The goal of this course is to analyze contemporary Indigenous Movements in Latin America through a historic and ethnographic lens. We will explore and discuss the key demands of indigenous peoples, their strategies to negotiate at the national level as well as the policies that have been developed in response to indigenous activism in the region. We will discuss the various levels of success indigenous movements have accomplished in different countries, and analyze the explanations given to understand such differences. Using texts from a range of Latin American countries, this course will begin by doing a historical analysis of the position of Indigenous peoples after independence, during the nation-building processes, and their strategies to resist assimilation. We will discuss the particularities of indigenous identity in a region where the colonial hierarchies based on class and ethnicity persists and shapes privilege of lighter skinned Latin Americans and discrimination towards indigenous peoples. We will analyze contemporary intercultural policies in both education and health to learn about the possibilities and limitations of the concept of "interculturalidad." This approach, meant to improve the recognition of indigenous perspectives and culture has oftentimes resulted in the cooption of indigenous peoples demands.