Still looking for a summer class? Consider a class in Anthropology!
If you're still looking for a class to take this summer, look no further! The Anthropology Department has not one, but two classes that they are looking for some more students in this summer!
ANT f305 - Expressive Culture Expressive culture is a broad area of study. Since it is part of our everyday lives it is not a clearly defined set of practices. Because of this “Expressive Culture” gives us an analytic that allows for a flexible investigation of the style and expression of our lives. The purpose of this class is to develop a set of tools for analyzing and representing aesthetic forms and performances such as dance, music, literature, visual media, and theater. Locating this in broader anthropological conversations, “Expressive Culture” connects to critical world-shaping forces such as colonization, globalization, politics, racism, and desire. Therefore, we will focus in particular on themes – language, ideology, subjectivity, identity, race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, and gender –that shape human society and expression.
ANT s302 - Cultural Anthropology
This course focuses on "classic" themes in anthropology such as ethnicity, language, adaptation, marriage, kinship, gender, religion, and social stratification. We will consider anthropological theory from its 19th-century origins to the present. The course also explores the nature of ethnographic field work, especially the relationship between the anthropologist and the field community.
The lectures, readings, and films for this course have been selected with the objective of exploring the social meanings with which diverse groups invest their life. By comparing and analyzing the similarities and differences between "us" and "others," both within the borders of the U.S. and abroad, the anthropological perspective can expose some of our own cultural assumptions and enable us to better understand diverse cultures.
If either of those classes sounds like the academic experience you're looking for, you should go ahead and register today!