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Fall 2018  |  ANTH 1003V Section 001: Understanding Cultures: Honors (17745)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Freshman Full Year Registration
Honors
Meets With:
ANTH 1003W Section 001
ESL 903 Section 001
ESL 903 Section 099
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/04/2018 - 12/12/2018
Mon, Wed 01:00PM - 02:15PM
UMTC, West Bank
Anderson Hall 210
Enrollment Status:
Open (19 of 20 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Introduction to social/cultural anthropology. Comparative study of societies/cultures around world. Adaptive strategies. Economic processes. Kinship, marriage, gender. Social stratification. Politics/conflicts. Religion/ritual. Personality/Culture. prereq: Honors
Class Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?karenho+ANTH1003V+Fall2018
Class Description:

This course is an introduction into culture and the making of humanity, past and present. What is culture, and what are the everyday practices, values, beliefs, and resources that go into the making of the human? We will ask questions such as the following: What makes jokes funny? How do identities and unequal social orders get made and reproduced? How can we understand human cultural variation and diversity? Why is there so much socio-economic inequality in the contemporary world, and how can we make sense of it to help address massive social problems and challenges?

This course is also an introduction to what it means to "to think like an anthropologist" - which entails challenging our own assumptions and cultural preconceptions about ourselves, other peoples, and the world around us. What does it mean to understand "the natives' points of views"? What if the exotic "others" are actually "us"? What is "us," anyway? In addition to making the "strange familiar" and the "familiar strange," we also investigate what is at stake in doing cultural analysis that is both grounded and responsive to people's lived experiences, and makes claims about the larger world. Key topics to be explored are power and inequality, race and ethnicity, colonialism, globalization, economy and economics, suffering and violence, gender and sexuality, kinship and family.

Weekly readings will pair introductory materials from our textbook with advanced theoretical articles and parts of ethnographies, through which we will discover a variety of cultural practices in settings from suburban high schools in California to the one-child policy in China to performances of modernity in Côte d'Ivoire. Instead of memorizing discrete cultural facts, students will be asked to acquire and use critical thinking skills to understand and analyze some of the central social issues of our time.

Exam Format:
Multiple Choice
Class Format:
Lecture and Discussion sections
Workload:
50-100 Pages Reading Per Week
10-15 Pages Writing Per Term
2-4 Exam(s)
Other Workload: exams include quizzes and final
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/17745/1189
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
3 September 2018

Fall 2018  |  ANTH 1003V Section 002: Understanding Cultures: Honors (17746)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Discussion
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Freshman Full Year Registration
Honors
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/04/2018 - 12/12/2018
Wed 02:30PM - 03:20PM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 150
Auto Enrolls With:
Section 001
Enrollment Status:
Open (19 of 20 seats filled)
Course Catalog Description:
Introduction to social/cultural anthropology. Comparative study of societies/cultures around world. Adaptive strategies. Economic processes. Kinship, marriage, gender. Social stratification. Politics/conflicts. Religion/ritual. Personality/Culture. prereq: Honors
Class Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?karenho+ANTH1003V+Fall2018
Class Description:

This course is an introduction into culture and the making of humanity, past and present. What is culture, and what are the everyday practices, values, beliefs, and resources that go into the making of the human? We will ask questions such as the following: What makes jokes funny? How do identities and unequal social orders get made and reproduced? How can we understand human cultural variation and diversity? Why is there so much socio-economic inequality in the contemporary world, and how can we make sense of it to help address massive social problems and challenges?

This course is also an introduction to what it means to "to think like an anthropologist" - which entails challenging our own assumptions and cultural preconceptions about ourselves, other peoples, and the world around us. What does it mean to understand "the natives' points of views"? What if the exotic "others" are actually "us"? What is "us," anyway? In addition to making the "strange familiar" and the "familiar strange," we also investigate what is at stake in doing cultural analysis that is both grounded and responsive to people's lived experiences, and makes claims about the larger world. Key topics to be explored are power and inequality, race and ethnicity, colonialism, globalization, economy and economics, suffering and violence, gender and sexuality, kinship and family.

Weekly readings will pair introductory materials from our textbook with advanced theoretical articles and parts of ethnographies, through which we will discover a variety of cultural practices in settings from suburban high schools in California to the one-child policy in China to performances of modernity in Côte d'Ivoire. Instead of memorizing discrete cultural facts, students will be asked to acquire and use critical thinking skills to understand and analyze some of the central social issues of our time.

Exam Format:
Multiple Choice
Class Format:
Lecture and Discussion sections
Workload:
50-100 Pages Reading Per Week
10-15 Pages Writing Per Term
2-4 Exam(s)
Other Workload: exams include quizzes and final
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/17746/1189
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
3 September 2018

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