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Undergraduate Courses
Undergraduate Courses
Course Cross-Listing Department Guide:
- AAS – African-American Studies
- GEO – Geography
- HIS – History
- LIN – Linguistics
- NAT - Native American Studies
- PSC – Political Science
- REL – Religion
- SAS - South Asian Studies
- SOC – Sociology
- WSP – Women’s Studies
Code indicating how
frequently the course is offered. Variations are:
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S |
Offered every semester |
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Y |
Offered at least once
every academic year (i.e., every fall or spring) |
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E |
Offered every other
year, in academic years when the fall semester occurs in an even year (e.g.,
1990-91) |
|
O |
Offered every other
year, in academic years when the fall semester occurs in an odd year (e.g.,
1991-92) |
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SI |
Offered upon
sufficient student interest |
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IR |
Offered irregularly |
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SS |
Offered only during
the summer |
S
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Economics, politics, religion, symbolism, rites of passage,
developmental cycle, and expressive culture.
S
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Case studies of global cultural diversity. Exploration of daily life,
rites of passage, marriage, family, work, politics, social life, religion,
ritual, and art among foraging, agricultural, and industrial societies.
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Role of history and archaeology in our understanding of 17th- to 19th-
century Europe, Africa, and America. Historical archaeology as a mechanism
to critique perceptions of the past. Firsthand record ethnic groups and
cultural settings not recorded in writing
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The histories, effects and
sources of the material conditions of women in non-EuroAmerican context.
Articulation of a feminist agenda in relation to global economic, social,
and political structures.
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Social and cultural variation throughout cities of the world.
Historical, political, familial, and symbolic aspects of ethnicity, race,
and social class in urban areas.
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Racial, linguistic and cultural areas of North America from the Rio
Grande to the Arctic. Selected areas and tribes. Data from archaeology,
historical records, and contemporary anthropological fieldwork.
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Societies of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. Social
organization, economic and political structures, religions and worldview,
survey of languages, the arts. Transition and modernization, rural and urban
problems.
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Describes past and present uses of anthropology in social policy.
Examines the discipline’s role in addressing global issues such as economic
development, environmental degradation, indigenous rights, refugees and
health care. Careers in non-academic settings.
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Historical and cross-cultural study of forms of family and domestic
organization, marriage, status and sex roles, ideals, and customs of family
life.
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Economic and cultural processes of globalization as they affect
different groups of men, women, and households; including gender and work,
gender and the media, and redefinitions of masculinity and feminity across
the globe.
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Effects of various cognitive and value orientations on cross-cultural
communication, particularly in the Third World. Impact of mass-media,
proselytization, dissimulation, tourism, and foreign aid on indigenous
orientations and on communication.
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Cross-cultural study of magical and religious behavior, ritual and
belief systems in simple and complex societies. Specialists and their craft:
Shamans, priests. Curing, possession, witchcraft. Millennial and
counterculture movements. Religious ideologies and innovations.
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Folklore as cultural system expressing the value orientations of
non-literate, illiterate and minority populations. Various genres of
folklore (myth, song, art) and the folklore of several specific societies.
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Historical and
interdisciplinary exploration of life stages, rites of passage, marriage,
family, social life, sodomy, prostitution, career options, and alternate
life strategies as illustrated by case studies. Offered only in Florence.
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Taught in South Africa
through the Organization for Tropical Studies program. Analyze management of
wildlife and natural resources within ecological, political, social,
historical, and economic context of South Africa.
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Taught in South Africa
through the Organization for Tropical Studies program. Human history of
South Africa. Range of cultural, social aspects of current South African
society. Origin and maintenance of cultural diversity of region,
archaeological records, early migration patterns.
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Taught in Costa Rica
through the Organization for Tropical Studies program. Issues conservation
biology and policy: habitat degradation and fragmentation, design of nature
reserves, land-use planning, agro ecosystems, environmental economics, and
conservation ethics.
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Authorized and
"alternative" sexuality in Europe 15th to 18th centuries (especially Italy,
France, and England) "Licit love" (courtship, marriage, conjugal relations)
as opposed to "illicit unions" (adultery, rape, prostitution, bestiality,
homosexuality, lesbianism). Offered only in Florence.
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History of witchcraft from
various perspectives: its intellectual roots, the causes and dynamics of the
witch-hunt, and the beliefs and self-perceptions of those who were called
"witches". Offered only in Florence.
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Processes of urbanization, migration, adjustment of peasants in cities,
ethnic and cultural variation in urban areas. Cultural differences in
industrial development. Uses of applied anthropology in urban situations.
Sometimes offered abroad.
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The person-in-culture and the function of culture in personality
formation. Cross-cultural problems of child-rearing, learning and education,
life-cycle patterns, cultural conditioning, normality and deviance. The
individual and cultural milieu. Prereq: ANT 111, PSY 205, or permission from
the instructor.
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Social power in the global political economy. Co-existence of various
emergent and residual social formations, such as tribe, peasant, and state.
Conflicts over identities in terms of nationality, gender, ethnicity, race
and/or class.
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Survey of primitive modes of production: Major adaptive strategies
(collecting, hunting, horticulture, and pastoralism), division of labor, and
ecological influences impinging on these productive techniques.
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Change and continuity after the demise of communism as
experienced by
ordinary citizens. Transformations in agriculture, industry, social, and
political institutions; the rise of ethnic nationalism; and ethnic conflict.
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Interaction of human populations with major diseases: plague, typhus,
small pox, measles, AIDS. Biological and cultural effects. Human variation:
mutations, blood types, race, and disabilities. Various aspects of human
microevolution.
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Topics might include West African Archaeology, Iron Age and Stone Age
Africa, the Nile Valley, and East and Southern Africa.
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Formulation and conduct of archaeological research with a focus on field
and laboratory methods used to obtain and analyze data. Survey techniques,
excavation strategies, archaeological classification, and data base
management.
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Introduction to archaeological materials analysis,
artifact-classification systems, processing of data, materials analysis
(ceramic, lithic, etc.). Conservation and curation of collections.
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Caribbean archaeology from the region’s early prehistory through the
historic period. Cultural diversity, indigenous societies, Hispanic and
colonial impacts, and the African Diaspora.
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National programs and local interventions that address poverty related
social conditions in Syracuse and Onondaga County. Field study of current
policies and practices in government and in health, education, and human
services agencies.
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Relationship between AIDS and cultures in which it spreads. Cultural
practices and sexuality and social effects of widespread AIDS, including
healthcare in Asia, Africa, Latin America and USA.
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Introduces the basic concepts used by anthropologists to study change.
Cultural heterogeneity of people of the Iberian peninsula, used as a means
to understand social and cultural change in contemporary Spain and Portugal.
Some themes examined include culture contact and acculturation, planned and
nondirected change, and role of individual. Offered only in Madrid.
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Contemporary issues including federal Indian Policy, population
controls, fishing rights, religious freedom, land disputes, gaming,
repatriation, environmental colonialism and Native American artistic
response.
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The contested relationships among Native North Americans and Museums
from earliest contact until the present. Topics include: “salvage”
ethnography, collecting practices, exhibition and recent shifts in power.
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Cross-cultural patterns of
dating and courtship, sexuality, marriage, fertility, and divorce from
biosocial and medical perspectives. Additional work required of graduate
students.
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Theories portraying mental disorders as social roles Goffman, Szasz,
Laing. Synthesis of social role and biogenetic theories performed and
applied cross-culturally. Additional work required of graduate students.
Prereq: any introductory course in social science. Permission of instructor.
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Role of religion in society;
religions of Brazil, including Catholicism, liberation theology,
afro-religions. Spring break field stay in Rio de Janeiro; methods of study;
preparation of research proposal
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Cross-cultural survey of the role of language in culture and society,
including cognition and language usage along the dimensions of class,
gender, race, ethnicity, and social status. Prereq. for ANT/LIN 472:
anthropology or linguistics majors with senior standing.
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Explores modalities of disputing, dispute resolution, and conflict
management in cross-cultural perspective. Decision making in meetings and
organizations, negotiation, mediation, inter-cultural negotiation, and third
party interventions. Ethnographic materials are drawn from many cultures.
Prereq: ANT 477/677 or permission of instructor.
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Ways in which folklore
(oral and material traditions, including personal narratives), reflects
key cultural ideas such as gender, ethnicity, and history. Analytical
methods for examining fold traditions. Prereq: ANT 366 or permission of
instructor.
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The role of language in the construction of gender/sex, using works of
linguistic anthropologists, sociolinguists, and feminists. Children’s
learning of gendered language; gender and political economy.
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Impact of global processes, including industrialization, capitalist
expansion, transnational migration, environmental change, and international
tourism on the daily lives of men and women in Third World contexts.
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Research methods and techniques in cultural anthropology. Participant
observation, interviewing, establishing rapport, recording field data, use
of photographic and recording equipment, etc. Also offered regularly abroad.
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Evaluation of personal narratives (fieldwork memoirs, reflexive
writing), oral histories and testimonials of respondents, a means of
personalizing ethnographic discourse, giving more direct voice to
respondents, and increasing multivocality. Issues of reflexivity,
subjectivity, authority.
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Theoretical approaches to analysis of social movements including Marxist
and other Utopian traditions of social analysis, rational choice and
resource mobilization models, new social movement theory, and Gramscian
analysis of power and resistance.
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Myth and history of the Underground in the context of African American
freedom efforts. Emphasis on events, personalities, and sites in Upstate New
York. Student field research and exploration of archival and Internet
resources.
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Effects of Urbanization, industrialization, population increases,
international politics, and modernization upon primitive and peasant
populations of Latin America.
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