Spring 2021
ANTH 102.001-012 / Understanding Other Cultures
MW / 12:00 – 12:50 / 100% Web Synchronous
Professor: Magdalena Stawkowski
(3 credits)
Prerequisite for Anthropology Majors & Minors
AND
Fulfills 3 hrs of the 6-hr Social Science GSS (Global Citizenship & Multicultural Understanding) Carolina Core Requirement and
Graduation with Leadership Distinction (GLD): Global Learning
Medical Minor Requirement*
Only one prerequisite per Major can be used for the GSS Requirement
*Cannot use for GSS Requirement if using for Medical Minor
Section 1: Monday / 1:10 – 2:00 / 100% Web Synchronous
Section 2: Monday / 2:20 – 3:10 / 100% Web Synchronous
Section 3: Monday / 3:30 – 4:20 / 100% Web Synchronous
Section 4: Tuesday / 11:40 – 12:30 / 100% Web Synchronous
Section 5: Tuesday / 1:15 – 2:05 / 100% Web Synchronous
Section 6: Wednesday / 9:40 – 10:30 / 100% Web Synchronous
Section 7: Wednesday / 10:50 – 11:40 / 100% Web Synchronous
Section 8: Wednesday / 1:10 – 2:00 / 100% Web Synchronous
Section 9: Wednesday / 2:20 – 3:10 / 100% Web Synchronous
Section 10: Wednesday / 3:30 – 4:20 / 100% Web Synchronous
Section 11: Thursday / 11:40 – 12:30 / 100% Web Synchronous
Section 12: Thursday / 1:15 – 2:05 / 100% Web Synchronous
Course Readings:
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Course Description:
Anthropology is a comparative study of human societies and their diversity past and present. The field challenges us to consider the ways in which people’s lives and social relations are shaped by political, economic, and historical forces. This class takes a survey-style approach to presenting a broad range of past and current theories, methodology, and concepts in cultural anthropology in order to introduce students to a range of human social life and cultural phenomena.
ANTH 356.001 / Anthropology of Art
MW / 2:20 – 3:35 / Face-to-Face Lecture in Hamilton 143
AND
ANTH 356.002/ Anthropology of Art
MW / 2:20 – 3:3 5 / 100% WEB - Synchronous
Professor: Jonathan Leader
(3 credits)
Fulfills the Cultural Requirement for the Anthropology Major and
Graduation with Leadership Distinction (GLD): Global learning
Course Readings:
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Course Description:
This course will introduce the student to the anthropological study of art. Classic concepts and articles will be discussed in class for their enduring insights, temporal connections, and areas of blindness. Contemporary studies from within and without western societies will be used to illustrate the breadth and current concerns within the sub-discipline. By the end of class the student will have acquired a basic understanding of this field of endeavor and have mastered the terminology.
Learning Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of the course, the student will:
- Recognize and apply basic anthropological terminology and concepts
- Understand the fundamental elements of human culture as it relates to art.
- Understand the methods used in and goals of the anthropology of art.
- Recognize the interdependency of language and culture.
- Recognize the defining characteristics of different kinds of societies.
- Understand the affects of the modern world on traditional cultures
ANTH 360.001 / Anthropology of Sex
MWF / 1:10 – 2:00 / 100% Web – Synchronous & Asynchronous
Professor: Marc Moskowitz
(3 credits)
Fulfills the Cultural Requirement for the Anthropology Major and
Graduation with Leadership Distinction (GLD): Global learning
Course Readings:
Please go to the USC Bookstore to find what books you will need for this course:
Articles on Blackboard
Course Description:
This course is a cross-cultural examination of sexual ideologies and practices. In it, we will address a wide range of cultural manifestations of sexuality and variations within particular cultures around the world. The course will primarily be focused on contemporary culture, but we will also address historical shifts in conceptualizing sexuality as a moral and medicalized discourse. There will be a special emphasis on cultural, economic, political, and religious influences on sexual thought and practice though we will also touch on psychological and other theoretical models of sexuality.
ANTH 381.001 / Gender and Globalization
MW / 2:20 – 3:35 / 100% Web - Asynchronous
Professor: Drucilla Barker
(3 credits)
Cross-listed with WGST 381
Fulfills the Cultural Requirement for the Anthropology Major and
Graduation with Leadership Distinction (GLD): Diversity & Social Advocacy; Global Learning; Professional & Civic Engagement
AND
Integrative Requirement (INT)
Course Readings:
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Course Description:
Globalization, a process of integrating countries, peoples, economies, and cultures into a larger whole, is as old at the travels of Marco Polo and at the same time as brand new as the Internet. Digital technologies and improvements in transportation have greatly reduced the barriers of time and distance. This has led to profound changes in the gender roles assigned to women and men, the ways that economies, governments, and cultures function, and the opportunities for meaningful work and “a good life.” It is the best of times and the worst of times. Today extreme wealth and desperate poverty exist side by side. Some women are heads of state and while others are subjugated to outmoded ideologies about women’s natural inferiority. Consumer goods are plentiful and inexpensive but only as a result of sweatshops in the global south. Global corporations such as Nike, MacDonald’s, and Coca Cola dominate markets all over the world while small farmers and producers struggle to survive. This course will explore these themes by looking at the legacies of colonialism, the global assembly line, the global market for domestic labor and sex work, changing patterns of immigration, and social justice movements.
ANTH 581.001 / Globalization and Cultural Questions
W / 5:30 – 8:15pm / 100% WEB - Synchronous
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:
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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.