Spring 2022

 

ANTH 320.001 / Archaeology Theory

PLEASE SEE MASTER SCHEDULE FOR DAY, TIMES, AND LOCATION

Professor: Joanna Casey

(3 credits)

Fulfills the Archaeological Requirement for the Anthropology Major

AND

Integrative Requirement (INT)

Course Readings:

None.  Weekly readings will be available

Course Description:

How do archaeologists figure out what happened in the past?   The artifacts they dig up provide clues, but how do archaeologists know what those clues mean?  This course is about the ideas that frame archaeological research. Those ideas have changed dramatically throughout the more than 100 years of archaeology’s history, determining the questions that archaeologists ask about the past, the kinds of material remains they search for, and the answers they find acceptable.  The past takes on different forms when peered at through different theoretical lenses, so how can we know what really happened in the past, and why does it matter?  While most archaeologists get interested in archaeology because of the artifacts and excavations, it is the ideas that make them continue. 

Presentation:

Lectures, films, readings

Evaluation:
Participation in discussions, response papers, Assignments (4), Presentations

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ANTH 371.001 / Ethnography of Communication

PLEASE SEE MASTER SCHEDULE FOR DAY, TIMES, AND LOCATION

Professor: Sherina Feliciano-Santos

(3 credits)

Fulfills the Linguistic Requirement for the Anthropology Major and

Graduation with Leadership Distinction (GLD): Professional Civic Engagement

AND

Integrative Requirement (INT)

Course Readings:

Please go to the USC Bookstore to find what books you will need for this course:

https://sc.bncollege.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/TBWizardView?catalogId=10001&langId=-1&storeId=10052

Course Description:

This course will introduce students to the empirical study of language and communication in context.  Using a cross-cultural approach, students will explore how norms and expectations for what are considered appropriate ways of talking and interacting (including things like gaze, spatial organization, hand gestures, and bodily positioning for example) differ across social events and cultural locales.  In fact, we will consider how such norms and expectations might help us constitute “identities” and “communities.”  Additionally, students will familiarize themselves with ethnographic and analytical methods in the study of communication, which they will apply to a short research project.

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ANTH 581.001 / Globalization and Cultural Questions

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Professor: David Kneas

(3 credits)

Fulfills the Cultural Requirement for the Anthropology Major

and INT (Integrative) Requirement.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction (GLD): Global Learning

OR

Fulfills the 500-level(s) requirement(s) for the Major or for DURT

and INT (Integrative) Requirement.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction (GLD): Global Learning

Cross-listed with GEOG 581.001

Course Readings:

Please go to the USC Bookstore to find what books you will need for this course: https://sc.bncollege.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/TBWizardView?catalogId=10001&langId=- 1&storeId=10052

Course Description:

This course examines cultural understandings of and responses to globalization, examining topics such as its history and theories, migration, economic integration and inequality, identity, social movements, and the environment.