Catalogue 2014-2015 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Anthropology Department
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Chair: David Tavárez;
Professors: Colleen Ballerino Cohenb, Judith L. Goldstein, Martha Kaplanab, Anne Pike-Tay, Thomas Porcello (and Associate Dean of Strategic Planning and Academic Resources);
Associate Professor: David Tavárez, Candice M. Lowe Swift;
Assistant Professors: April M. Beisaw;
Visiting Assistant Professor: Benjamin K. Smith.
ab On leave 2014/15
b On leave 2014/15, second semester
The field of anthropology seeks to promote a holistic understanding of social life by offering complex accounts of human histories, societies and cultures. Anthropologists undertake ethnographic, archival, and archaeological research on the varied aspects of individual and collective experience in all time periods and parts of the world. The Department of Anthropology offers a wide range of options for majors and for nonmajors in recognition of the broad interdisciplinary nature of the field. Nonmajors from all classes may choose courses at any level
with permission of the instructor and without introductory anthropology as a prerequisite.
NRO: One introductory course taken NRO may count towards the major if a letter grade is received. If a student receives a PA for an introductory course taken under the NRO option, that student must complete 13 courses for an anthropology major. No other required courses for the major may be taken NRO.
Recommendations: The field experience is essential to the discipline of anthropology. Therefore, majors are urged to take at least one fieldwork course, to engage in field research during the summer, and/or to undertake independent fieldwork under a study away program.
Anthropological Research Experience: The department also offers students the opportunity for independent fieldwork/research projects through several of its courses and in conjunction with on-going faculty research projects. Opportunities for laboratory research, which is also critical to anthropological inquiry, are available in our archaeology, biological anthropology, sound analysis, and digital video editing labs.
Advisers: The department.
Major
Correlate Sequence in Anthropology
Anthropology: I. Introductory
Anthropology: II. Intermediate
- • ANTH 201 - Anthropological Theory
- • ANTH 231 - Topics in Archaeology
- • ANTH 232 - Topics in Biological Anthropology
- • ANTH 235 - Area Studies in Archaeology
- • ANTH 240 - Cultural Localities
- • ANTH 241 - The Caribbean
- • ANTH 243 - Mesoamerican Worlds
- • ANTH 245 - The Ethnographer’s Craft
- • ANTH 247 - Modern Social Theory: Classical Traditions
- • ANTH 250 - Language, Culture, and Society
- • ANTH 255 - Language, Gender, and Media
- • ANTH 259 - Soundscapes: Anthropology of Music
- • ANTH 260 - Current Themes in Anthropological Theory and Method
- • ANTH 262 - Anthropological Approaches to Myth, Ritual and Symbol
- • ANTH 263 - Anthropology Goes to the Movies: Film, Video, and Ethnography
- • ANTH 264 - Anthropology of Art
- • ANTH 266 - Indigenous and Oppositional Media
- • ANTH 281 - Theirs or Ours? Repatriating Individuals and Objects
- • ANTH 290 - Field Work
- • ANTH 297 - Reading Course in Archaeological Field Methods
- • ANTH 298 - Independent Work
- • ANTH 386 - Situating Blackness, Situating Vassar: Experience, Documentation, Transformation
Anthropology: III. Advanced
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