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Spring 2019  |  ANTH 1003W Section 001: Understanding Cultures (52998)

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
Meets With:
ANTH 1003V Section 001
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/22/2019 - 05/06/2019
Tue, Thu 09:45AM - 11:00AM
UMTC, West Bank
Anderson Hall 210
Enrollment Status:
Open (145 of 150 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Introduction to social and cultural anthropology. Comparative study of societies and cultures around the world. Topics include adaptive strategies; economic processes; kinship, marriage, and gender; social stratification; politics and conflicts; religion and ritual; personality and culture.
Class Notes:
Anthropology's primary object of study is "humanity" itself. This is indicated by its name, anthropo-logy. But what academic study is not about humanity? How is anthropology different from, say, sociology, psychology, history, economics? Anthropology approaches the question of humanity from its margins instead of its "center." Instead of "cradles of civilization" or modern urban metropolises, anthropology tends to begin its inquiry from the limit-points of humanity. Where does "humanity" begin or end? How do we interact with "non-human" animals or the environment? What becomes of us in space? How do we politically draw the boundary between "human" and "non-human" in the first place? This class introduces, in particular, one of the sub-fields of the discipline: sociocultural anthropology. The class aims to introduce many facets of sociocultural anthropology through one question: How do you teach the game of fetch to a non-compliant dog? For more information visit: http://classinfo.umn.edu/?songx080+ANTH1003W+Spring2019
Class Description:
Anthropology's primary object of study is "humanity" itself. This is indicated by its name, anthropo-logy. But what academic study is not about humanity? How is anthropology different from, say, sociology, psychology, history, economics? Anthropology approaches the question of humanity from its margins instead of its "center." Instead of "cradles of civilization" or modern urban metropolises, anthropology tends to begin its inquiry from the limit-points of humanity. Where does "humanity" begin or end? How do we interact with "non-human" animals or the environment? What becomes of us in space? How do we politically draw the boundary between "human" and "non-human" in the first place? This class introduces, in particular, one of the sub-fields of the discipline: sociocultural anthropology. The class aims to introduce many facets of sociocultural anthropology through one question: How do you teach the game of fetch to a non-compliant dog?
Exam Format:
Multiple Choice, essay
Class Format:
75% Lecture
25% Discussion
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/52998/1193
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
4 November 2015

Spring 2019  |  ANTH 1003W Section 002: Understanding Cultures (54483)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Discussion
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Freshman Full Year Registration
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/22/2019 - 05/06/2019
Mon 02:30PM - 03:20PM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 260
Auto Enrolls With:
Section 001
Enrollment Status:
Open (21 of 25 seats filled)
Course Catalog Description:
Introduction to social and cultural anthropology. Comparative study of societies and cultures around the world. Topics include adaptive strategies; economic processes; kinship, marriage, and gender; social stratification; politics and conflicts; religion and ritual; personality and culture.
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Exam Format:
Multiple Choice, essay
Class Format:
75% Lecture
25% Discussion
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/54483/1193
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
4 November 2015

Spring 2019  |  ANTH 1003W Section 003: Understanding Cultures (54484)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Discussion
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Freshman Full Year Registration
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/22/2019 - 05/06/2019
Tue 11:15AM - 12:05PM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 205
Auto Enrolls With:
Section 001
Enrollment Status:
Closed (25 of 25 seats filled)
Course Catalog Description:
Introduction to social and cultural anthropology. Comparative study of societies and cultures around the world. Topics include adaptive strategies; economic processes; kinship, marriage, and gender; social stratification; politics and conflicts; religion and ritual; personality and culture.
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Exam Format:
Multiple Choice, essay
Class Format:
75% Lecture
25% Discussion
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/54484/1193
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
4 November 2015

Spring 2019  |  ANTH 1003W Section 004: Understanding Cultures (54485)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Discussion
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Freshman Full Year Registration
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/22/2019 - 05/06/2019
Tue 02:30PM - 03:20PM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 260
Auto Enrolls With:
Section 001
Enrollment Status:
Closed (26 of 25 seats filled)
Course Catalog Description:
Introduction to social and cultural anthropology. Comparative study of societies and cultures around the world. Topics include adaptive strategies; economic processes; kinship, marriage, and gender; social stratification; politics and conflicts; religion and ritual; personality and culture.
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Exam Format:
Multiple Choice, essay
Class Format:
75% Lecture
25% Discussion
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/54485/1193
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
4 November 2015

Spring 2019  |  ANTH 1003W Section 005: Understanding Cultures (54486)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Discussion
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Freshman Full Year Registration
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/22/2019 - 05/06/2019
Wed 10:10AM - 11:00AM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 115
Auto Enrolls With:
Section 001
Enrollment Status:
Closed (26 of 25 seats filled)
Course Catalog Description:
Introduction to social and cultural anthropology. Comparative study of societies and cultures around the world. Topics include adaptive strategies; economic processes; kinship, marriage, and gender; social stratification; politics and conflicts; religion and ritual; personality and culture.
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Exam Format:
Multiple Choice, essay
Class Format:
75% Lecture
25% Discussion
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/54486/1193
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
4 November 2015

Spring 2019  |  ANTH 1003W Section 006: Understanding Cultures (54488)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Discussion
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Freshman Full Year Registration
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/22/2019 - 05/06/2019
Thu 12:20PM - 01:10PM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 205
Auto Enrolls With:
Section 001
Enrollment Status:
Open (22 of 25 seats filled)
Course Catalog Description:
Introduction to social and cultural anthropology. Comparative study of societies and cultures around the world. Topics include adaptive strategies; economic processes; kinship, marriage, and gender; social stratification; politics and conflicts; religion and ritual; personality and culture.
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Exam Format:
Multiple Choice, essay
Class Format:
75% Lecture
25% Discussion
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/54488/1193
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
4 November 2015

Spring 2019  |  ANTH 1003W Section 007: Understanding Cultures (54487)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Discussion
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Freshman Full Year Registration
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/22/2019 - 05/06/2019
Thu 11:15AM - 12:05PM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 205
Auto Enrolls With:
Section 001
Enrollment Status:
Closed (25 of 25 seats filled)
Course Catalog Description:
Introduction to social and cultural anthropology. Comparative study of societies and cultures around the world. Topics include adaptive strategies; economic processes; kinship, marriage, and gender; social stratification; politics and conflicts; religion and ritual; personality and culture.
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Exam Format:
Multiple Choice, essay
Class Format:
75% Lecture
25% Discussion
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/54487/1193
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
4 November 2015

Spring 2019  |  ANTH 1003W Section 020: Understanding Cultures (54489)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
4 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Freshman Full Year Registration
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/22/2019 - 05/06/2019
Tue 06:20PM - 09:30PM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 255
Enrollment Status:
Open (43 of 80 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Introduction to social and cultural anthropology. Comparative study of societies and cultures around the world. Topics include adaptive strategies; economic processes; kinship, marriage, and gender; social stratification; politics and conflicts; religion and ritual; personality and culture.
Class Notes:
For more information visit: http://classinfo.umn.edu/?rebria+ANTH1003W+Spring2019
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, essay
Class Format:
75% Lecture
25% Discussion
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/54489/1193
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
27 June 2017

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