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Course # (Section)
Title
Day/Times
Instructor
Room
PosTag(s)
Info
AS.070.602 (01)
Sustainable Design Studio
F 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Labruto, Nicole
Sustainable Design Studio AS.070.602 (01)
Environmental justice issues require sustainable design solutions founded on social scientific practice, technical expertise, and solidarity with community partners. Building on theoretical and methodological knowledge gained in the Fall 2020 Sustainable Design course (AS.070.433/633), the Sustainable Design Studio will bring together students, members of Baltimore social justice organizations, and practitioners from a variety of disciplines to work in collaboration to research and design solutions to complex social-ecological problems faced by partner organizations. This studio class provides students with practical, project-based design experience through community collaboration. Instructor permission required.
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Days/Times: F 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Labruto, Nicole
Room:
Status: Approval Required
Seats Available: 6/10
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.070.665 (01)
Concepts: How to Read Hindu and Islamic Texts
F 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Das, Veena, Khan, Naveeda
Concepts: How to Read Hindu and Islamic Texts AS.070.665 (01)
What is the nature of anthropological concepts and what relations do they bear to concepts internal to a society? We invite students to think with key ideas from Hindu and Islamic traditions, asking if anthropological concepts are best seen as abstractions from the particular or as intertwined with ongoing lines of inquiry, say into the nature of the real and continual efforts to test it? Topics in ritual theory, grammar, aesthetics, translation, revelation, luminosity, figuration and the mythological among those to be considered.
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Days/Times: F 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Das, Veena, Khan, Naveeda
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 10/10
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.070.676 (01)
Semiotics and its Discontents
T 10:30AM - 12:30PM
Haeri, Niloofar
Semiotics and its Discontents AS.070.676 (01)
The relationship between speakers, communities, and forms of language-in-use (ritual, everyday life, oral literature) can only partly be captured by conceptions of language as a sign system. In this course, we will review structuralist approaches most closely identified with semiotics and move on to explore the concept of “presence” and its explanatory potential for anthropological attempts in understanding language.
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Days/Times: T 10:30AM - 12:30PM
Instructor: Haeri, Niloofar
Room:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/10
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.070.698 (01)
Defining Region
T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Das, Veena
Defining Region AS.070.698 (01)
This course is open to anthropology graduate students only and is to be run on a workshop
model. It is to help those students writing their regional essay for the comprehensive exams to
acquire expertise in regional debates and literature relevant to their field research. Our
understanding of regions is one of cross-cutting concepts and questions rather than geographical framings alone. After identifying a concept or question, each student will create an annotated bibliography, trace the shape of arguments as they emerge within the readings, create an outline and work toward a draft of the final essay.
