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Course # (Section)
Title
Day/Times
Instructor
Room
PosTag(s)
Info
AS.070.317 (01)
Methods
TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Haeri, Niloofar
Mergenthaler 426
Methods AS.070.317 (01)
This course aims to teach basic fieldwork skills: Choosing and entering a community; establishing contacts; learning to listen and to ask questions and locating archival material that might be relevant. It is a hands-on course that increases student familiarity with various neighborhoods such as the Arts District in Baltimore. Recommended Course Background: two or more prior courses in anthropology (not cross-listed courses). Course is a requirement for anthropology major.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Instructor: Haeri, Niloofar
Room: Mergenthaler 426
Status: Open
Seats Available: 7/20
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.070.118 (01)
Urban Citizenship
TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
Procupez, Valeria
Mergenthaler 426
Urban Citizenship AS.070.118 (01)
In our present "urban age," the city appears as the privileged framework to claim citizenship rights. This demand, however, clashes with issues of urban renewal and development, security and circulation, as well as conditions of stark inequality that relegate vast sectors of the urban population around the globe to informality and precarious residence, without access to adequate healthcare, sanitary services and amenities, or secure housing tenure. This course examines the intricacies of the notion of "urban citizenship" and how the "right to the city" is imagined and demanded in struggles for belonging and inclusion in cities throughout the world.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
Instructor: Procupez, Valeria
Room: Mergenthaler 426
Status: Open
Seats Available: 4/18
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.070.419 (01)
Logic of Anthropological Inquiry
T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Procupez, Valeria
Mergenthaler 426
ARCH-RELATE
Logic of Anthropological Inquiry AS.070.419 (01)
Anthropology is an endeavor to think with the empirical richness of the world at hand, a field science with both literary and philosophical pretensions. This course grapples with the nature of anthropological inquiry, reading classic works in the discipline as well as contemporary efforts to reimagine its foundations. Required for anthropology majors.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Procupez, Valeria
Room: Mergenthaler 426
Status: Open
Seats Available: 10/15
PosTag(s): ARCH-RELATE
AS.070.284 (01)
Life and Labor in Toxic Environments: Anthropological Perspectives
TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Gul, Zeynel
Gilman 119
Life and Labor in Toxic Environments: Anthropological Perspectives AS.070.284 (01)
This course will explore the intersections of scientific knowledge and law that shape the experience of environmental and occupational diseases from an anthropological perspective. We will first look at the concepts of risk and danger; medical and legal reasoning on causation; role of expertise in science and law; and the place of victim testimonies in public perceptions of risk. In the second part we will take up four case studies on the topics of lead poisoning, Bhopal gas leak, Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear disasters, and exposure to toxic dusts in the workplaces.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Instructor: Gul, Zeynel
Room: Gilman 119
Status: Open
Seats Available: 6/18
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.070.328 (01)
Ethnographies Of Iran
Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Haeri, Niloofar
Mergenthaler 426
Ethnographies Of Iran AS.070.328 (01)
We approach Iran through building layers of understanding through works of literature, cinema, ethnography, and take particular note of the recent uprising and of some of the central works that are being produced on matters of environment and climate change.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Haeri, Niloofar
Room: Mergenthaler 426
Status: Open
Seats Available: 7/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.070.289 (01)
Family Reconsidered
M 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Das, Veena
Mergenthaler 426
Family Reconsidered AS.070.289 (01)
This course will examine new ways of theorizing family and kinship due to changes brought about by technology, experience of war and collective violence, and recognition of the multiplicity of ways of forming relations.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: M 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Das, Veena
Room: Mergenthaler 426
Status: Open
Seats Available: 19/30
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.070.334 (01)
Contemporary Anthropology
T 4:00PM - 5:30PM
Pandian, anand
Mergenthaler 426
Contemporary Anthropology AS.070.334 (01)
Students are invited to attend, for credit, the departmental research colloquium in anthropology. The colloquium meets most (but not all) Tuesday afternoons during the semester. Students are expected to attend and listen, encouraged to ask questions when they wish, and to write one brief reflection on contemporary trends in the field, based on what they have observed during these sessions. Prerequisite: Students must have completed one Anthropology course previously This course does not apply to Anthropology major or minors towards their minimum department requirement. It counts towards your total credit requirement to degree..
Credits: 1.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: T 4:00PM - 5:30PM
Instructor: Pandian, anand
Room: Mergenthaler 426
Status: Open
Seats Available: 8/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.070.345 (01)
Violence, Race and the Unruly Body
F 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Mohamed, Sabine
Gilman 219
Violence, Race and the Unruly Body AS.070.345 (01)
What is violence? Ubiquitous as a concept, it remains difficult to define both its essences and boundaries. How do we distinguish between criminality, organized, and unorganized violence? Is violence the antithesis of society, or a central component of it? In this course, we will disscuss the concept of violence, the challenges of writing about it and explore the potentials that emerge from bodies subjugated to racialized/gendered forms of violence. We will examine a number of different ethnographic spaces, including genocide in Rwanda, conflict resolution among the Nuer, the concept of criminality in Indonesia, largescale massacres in Thailand, and police violence in the United States
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: F 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Mohamed, Sabine
Room: Gilman 219
Status: Open
Seats Available: 9/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.070.466 (01)
Persons and Things in Ethnography and Fiction
F 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Das, Veena
Mergenthaler 426
Persons and Things in Ethnography and Fiction AS.070.466 (01)
This course will examine the presence of persons and of things in the related genres of ethnography and fiction. Students will be expected to experiment with finding what kinds of struggles for narrative space they can detect with regard to persons,, characters, and things in the texts they read.
