Spring 2022
Please keep in mind that all Anthropology courses above the 100-level can be used as Anthropology Electives, as long as they are not being used to fulfill another Anthropology requirement. (If you are looking for the Medical Anthropology Minor Electives, please return to the Anthropology Courses page.)
ANTH 208.001 / Anthropology of Globalization and Development
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Professor: Drue Barker
(3 credits)
Fulfills 3 hrs of the Elective Requirement for the Anthropology
AND
GLD: Global Learning
Course Readings:
Please go to the USC Bookstore to find what books you will need for this course:
Course Description:
Globalization is as old at the travels of Marco Polo and at the same time as brand new as the Internet. It is a process of integrating countries, peoples, economies, and cultures into a larger system. People are connected, cultures are mobile, and value systems intersect and change. Globalization has widened the gap between rich and poor countries, and everywhere extreme wealth and desperate poverty exist side by side. Development is a process of industrialization and modernization, which ideally, lessens poverty and increases the standard of living for poor countries. In practice, however, both globalization and development have been quite different resulting in both winners and losers, raising significant ethical questions. In this course we will study Topics will include colonial legacies of inequality, gendered and racialized political hierarchies, human rights, migration, and structural adjustment policies.
ANTH 391.001 / Special Topics: Embracing Curls and Natural Hair –
The Global Natural Hair Movement
PLEASE SEE MASTER SCHEDULE FOR DAY, TIMES, AND LOCATION
Professor: Kimberly Simmons
(3 credits)
Fulfills the 3 hours of the Elective Requirement for the Anthropology Major
Meets With AFAM 398.002
Course Readings:
Please go to the USC Bookstore to find what books you will need for this course:
Course Description:
This course explores the emergence of the global natural hair movement where women and men view natural hair as a sign of beauty, identity, resistance, and personal expression. In addition to readings and films, we will highlight personal testimonials and footage from hair festivals to discuss diversity and the politics of natural hair. We will also discuss the ways in which hair stylists, activists, and others organize around and embrace natural hair. More broadly, the course is an opportunity to understand natural hair as an expression of Blackness and belonging to a larger /African diaspora community.