ClassInfo - Spring 2020 Anthropology Classes

Spring 2020 | ANTH 3003 Section 001: Cultural Anthropology (54250)

Instructor(s): David Lipset
Kadir Yavuz Emiroglu (TA)
Class Component:: Lecture
Credits:: 3 Credits
Grading Basis:: Student Option
Instructor Consent:: No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:: In Person Term Based
Times and Locations:: Regular Academic Session

01/21/2020 - 05/04/2020

Mon, Wed 09:45AM - 11:00AM

UMTC, West Bank

Anderson Hall 330
Enrollment Status:: Open (37 of 100 seats filled)
Also Offered:: (Tentative) Spring 2025
(Tentative) Fall 2024
(Tentative) Spring 2024
(Tentative) Fall 2023
(Tentative) Spring 2023
(Tentative) Fall 2022
(Tentative) Spring 2022
(Tentative) Fall 2021

Course Catalog Description:: Topics vary. Field research. Politics of ethnographic knowledge. Marxist/feminist theories of culture. Culture, language, and discourse. Psychological anthropology. Culture/transnational processes.
Class Notes:: colonialism, structuralism, history and memory, feminism and feminist anthropology, gender, modernity, post-modernity, indigeneity, capitalism, neoliberalism, postcolonialism, decolonization
Class Description:: This course closely examines different theoretical approaches to the study of different cultures. Major conceptual frameworks in modern cultural anthropology will be selected, such as social structural, Marxist, Freudian, and globalization. Ethnographic monographs will form the basis of the readings. Works such as Benedict's "Chrysanthemum and the Sword" and Taussig's "The Devil and Commodity Fetishism" will be read both for ethnographic and theoretical goals and contents.The course is meant for premajors, majors and other interested students. It will be taught using lecture format and small group activities
Grading:: 80% Midterm Exam
20% Final Exam
Exam Format:: essay
Class Format:: 60% Lecture
40% Discussion
Workload:: 75 Pages Reading Per Week
4 Exam(s)
Textbooks:: https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/54250/1203
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:: 21 May 2007

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