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FYS: Means of Persuasion: Language, Culture, and Society
AS.001.218 (01)

How does language get entangled in our cultural and social understandings? How do we learn to locate a person correctly in a particular social class or ethnicity? This course aims to show the ways in which language is at the center of our daily interactions and our institutions. We will learn conceptual tools to examine the ways in which writers and leaders attempt to persuade their publics in important matters such as climate change, party politics, and religious differences.

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
  • Days/Times: W 10:30AM - 1:00PM
  • Instructor: Haeri, Niloofar
  • Room: Mergenthaler 426
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 1/12
  • PosTag(s): n/a

FYS: Music, Religion and Healing
AS.001.221 (01)

Our class will explore how religious and spiritual communities have understood and practiced music as a healing and reparative force, with a particular focus on Sufi spirituality and the living South Asian musical tradition of khayal. Khayal is both a vocal practice and a system of spiritual self-development, and singers are trained to activate the healing that resides in sound. We will take this journey through essays, film, music, meditative listening, and conversations with musicians as well as practitioners of reparative and healing education in the arts. Students will also have the opportunity to participate in an ethnographic project on music and healing with artists and creators in Pakistan.

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
  • Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
  • Instructor: Ziad, Homayra
  • Room: 3003 N. Charles OMA Lounge
  • Status: Waitlist Only
  • Seats Available: 0/12
  • PosTag(s): n/a

Quarried, Sculpted, Carved: Lifecycles of Mesoamerican Sculpture
AS.010.469 (01)

Stelae, altars, colossal heads, thrones, figures, lintels. This course considers how artists created these stone monuments in Mesoamerica, the historical region that encompasses Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and Honduras, and El Salvador. Sculptors meticulously carved stone blocks to shape and then scribes expertly incised their surfaces with hieroglyphic text or iconography. These stone monuments were then transported and moved into position, their physical placements structuring social hierarchy and mediating interactions with the divine. In reviewing recent literature within the fields of art history and material studies, we will explore the full cycle of production for monumental works of art.

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
  • Days/Times: M 4:30PM - 7:00PM
  • Instructor: Popovici, Catherine H
  • Room: Gilman 177
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 3/15
  • PosTag(s): HART-ANC, ARCH-ARCH

Invitation to Anthropology
AS.070.132 (02)

This introductory course will focus on the theme of “encounter,” which has been central to anthropology’s self-formation. We will focus on the encounter with the other, the colonial encounter and the encounter with the possibility of human extinction to explore how newness comes into the world and how it may be structured by prior violence.

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
  • Days/Times: T 9:00AM - 10:15AM, Th 9:00AM - 10:15AM
  • Instructor: Khan, Naveeda
  • Room: Gilman 50
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 6/20
  • PosTag(s): ARCH-RELATE

Invitation to Anthropology
AS.070.132 (03)

This introductory course will focus on the theme of “encounter,” which has been central to anthropology’s self-formation. We will focus on the encounter with the other, the colonial encounter and the encounter with the possibility of human extinction to explore how newness comes into the world and how it may be structured by prior violence.

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
  • Days/Times: T 9:00AM - 10:15AM, Th 9:00AM - 10:15AM
  • Instructor: Khan, Naveeda
  • Room: Gilman 50
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 3/20
  • PosTag(s): ARCH-RELATE

Invitation to Anthropology
AS.070.132 (04)

This introductory course will focus on the theme of “encounter,” which has been central to anthropology’s self-formation. We will focus on the encounter with the other, the colonial encounter and the encounter with the possibility of human extinction to explore how newness comes into the world and how it may be structured by prior violence.

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
  • Days/Times: T 9:00AM - 10:15AM, Th 9:00AM - 10:15AM
  • Instructor: Khan, Naveeda
  • Room: Gilman 50
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 1/20
  • PosTag(s): ARCH-RELATE

Invitation to Anthropology
AS.070.132 (05)

This introductory course will focus on the theme of “encounter,” which has been central to anthropology’s self-formation. We will focus on the encounter with the other, the colonial encounter and the encounter with the possibility of human extinction to explore how newness comes into the world and how it may be structured by prior violence.

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
  • Days/Times: T 9:00AM - 10:15AM, Th 9:00AM - 10:15AM
  • Instructor: Khan, Naveeda
  • Room: Gilman 50
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 2/20
  • PosTag(s): ARCH-RELATE

Mapping Communities
AS.070.202 (01)

This course examines mapping through an ethnographic lens. We will both study the design of maps as a key technology to survey territories and populations, as well as forms of countermapping: practices that turn this top-down, governmental tool on its head and facilitate a ground-up, collaborative process of representing space. We will survey various forms of data visualization, oral history and narrative cartography, as methods for the generation of local knowledge. Cases include indigenous counter-mapping of communal land, collective cartography in Latin America, anti-eviction mapping projects in American cities, and others. The course involves critical discussions of theoretical and ethnographic texts, as well as the practical exploration of different mapmaking techniques (ArcGIS, hands-on activities on campus and its surroundings), and their importance as possible contributions to anthropological analysis and community engagement.

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
  • Days/Times: TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
  • Instructor: Procupez, Valeria
  • Room: Mergenthaler 426
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 7/15
  • PosTag(s): ARCH-RELATE

Culture, Religion and Politics in Iran
AS.070.267 (01)

This is an introductory course for those interseted in gaining basic knowledge about contemporary Iran. The focus will be on culture and religion and the ways they in which they become interwoven into different kinds of political stakes.

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
  • Days/Times: Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
  • Instructor: Haeri, Niloofar
  • Room: Mergenthaler 439
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 1/12
  • PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL, INST-NWHIST, INST-CP, ISLM-ISLMST

Ethnographies
AS.070.273 (01)

This course explores the craft of ethnography as a mode of research and writing fundamental to anthropology. Through the close reading of several ethnographic works, we will consider the intertwining of description and argumentation; and through various observation and writing exercises, we will develop a practical understanding of the ethnographic method of transferring social worlds from the field to the text.

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
  • Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
  • Instructor: Procupez, Valeria
  • Room: Mergenthaler 426
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 4/15
  • PosTag(s): ARCH-RELATE

Reading Gandhi in the Contemporary Moment
AS.070.286 (01)

The course is designed to introduce students to the Indian anti-colonialist figure and political thinker Mahatma Gandhi, his key ideas on politics and society in their historical and political contexts, and to put them in conversation with contemporary social and political theory. Many today may consider Gandhi’s ideas, such as that of turning away from technology or an insistence on non-violence even in the face of threat and violence, as too idealistic or impractical for our complicated times. Through a close reading of his work, this course will challenge this reflex response, and explore the relevance of his thought for rethinking our approach to contemporary political and ecological crises.

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
  • Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
  • Instructor: Joshi, Kunal
  • Room: Hodson 301
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 9/18
  • PosTag(s): n/a

The Politics of Land Rights
AS.070.322 (01)

Land acquisition by the government to create useful public infrastructure has long been perceived as both necessary and legal. However, recent land acquisition processes have encouraged widespread illegal land grabs, the loss of livelihoods and the largescale displacement of local communities. This course invites students to examine what has changed in terms of states, economies, and societies to make such processes globally disruptive and violent. We will also consider the range of protests available to prevent or modulate such excesses of the politics of land rights.

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
  • Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
  • Instructor: Menezes, Benita Maria
  • Room: Mergenthaler 426
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 9/18
  • PosTag(s): ENVS-MAJOR, ENVS-MINOR

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 - 6:00PM
  • Instructor: Khan, Naveeda
  • Room: Mergenthaler 426
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 9/10
  • PosTag(s): n/a

Transnational Migration through the Lens of Kinship and Gender
AS.070.338 (01)

Migration or the global movement of people is occurring at all different scales across the world. While the focus has largely been on the causes and men’s experiences of migration as the norm, this course will focus attention on the relationship between migration, kinship and gender. We will ask, how do existing family relations structure movement, how do migrants form kinship relations in their new homes, and what happens to those left behind. What is a gender perspective on migration? Through an interdisciplinary range of readings, we will explore both the dominant, usually statist frameworks by which migration is studied and how bringing in the perspective of kinship and gender stands to push against these frameworks and commonsensical understandings as to why people migrate.

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
  • Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
  • Instructor: Kim, Sojung
  • Room: Mergenthaler 426
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 10/18
  • PosTag(s): n/a

Human Variation: “Race,” Biology, Culture
AS.070.387 (01)

This course focuses on human variation from an anthropological perspective. We discuss biological variation within and between human populations as the product of adaptive, maladaptive, and random changes. This includes an understanding of the diversity of human biologies as the product of complex interactions between environment, culture, and biology.

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
  • Days/Times: W 4:00PM - 6:30PM
  • Instructor: Lans, Aja Marie
  • Room: Mergenthaler 439
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 7/13
  • PosTag(s): n/a

The Idea of Africa
AS.070.404 (01)

This seminar interrogates the numerous ways that Africa, as a concept, has been generative in history, as well as in political and social thought. Although in the long arc of history, the period of European colonialism on the continent was brief, it fundamentally reshaped how we think about Africa as a space and place. Africa has long existed as a crucial “other” in European culture. But how do we think of Africa outside of this limiting history? The idea of Africa has also existed as an important rubric for African scholars to counter such colonial inheritances and for diasporas to re-engage the black Atlantic. The emergence of Pan-Africanism as well as liberation movements across the continent have pushed back against a reading of Africa simply as a site of exploitation, but as home (“Africa for Africans”), space (Afrofuturism), and as a site of radical politics. In this course, we explore the different histories, futures, and potentialities of Africa as an idea, re-sorting its geographies and stories.

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
  • Days/Times: F 1:30PM - 4:00PM
  • Instructor: Mohamed, Sabine
  • Room: Mergenthaler 439
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 2/8
  • PosTag(s): n/a

Politics of Language
AS.070.431 (01)

How does language become a site of contestation? From the attention to speech on social media, discrimination and exclusion based on how people sound, the realism of ChatGPT, to debates regarding what constitutes proper and improper language in school textbooks, we seem to increasingly talk about how we talk. How do we study language in these spaces, and amidst contestation and social change? Moving between a number of different contexts, this course explores how language becomes a focal point of agreement and disagreement. Topics include the history of code-switching, language identities around the world, AI and chatbots, indigenous revitalization projects, and how language is thoroughly embedded in our understandings of gender, race, and the concept of the social “other.” Throughout the course, we will read some classic linguistic anthropology texts as well as a contemporary literature, that together provide a foundation for how to think about the role of language in our lives.

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
  • Days/Times: Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
  • Instructor: MacLochlainn, Scott
  • Room: Mergenthaler 426
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 1/8
  • PosTag(s): n/a

Science Studies and Medical Humanities: Theory and Methods
AS.145.219 (01)

The knowledge and practices of science and medicine are not as self-evident as they may appear. When we observe, what do we see? What counts as evidence? How does evidence become fact? How do facts circulate and what are their effects? Who is included in and excluded from our common-sense notions of science, medicine, and technology? This course will introduce students to central theoretical concerns in Science and Technology Studies and the Medical Humanities, focusing on enduring problematics that animate scholars. In conjunction with examinations of theoretical bases, students will learn to evaluate the methodological tools used in different fields in the humanities to study the production and circulation of scientific knowledge and the structures of medical care and public health. This problem-centered approach will help students understand and apply key concepts and approaches in critical studies of science, technology, and medicine.

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
  • Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
  • Instructor: Labruto, Nicole
  • Room: Hodson 311
  • Status: Waitlist Only
  • Seats Available: 0/18
  • PosTag(s): MSCH-HUM

Bees, Bugs, and other Beasties: Insects in Literature
AS.211.323 (01)

Beetles, fleas, bees, ants, ticks, butterflies: as the earth’s most abundant animals, insects affect our lives in countless ways. In this seminar, we will explore the diverse world of insects and other arthropods and analyze their appearance in philosophy, literature, and the sciences. Reading our way from John Donne’s “The Flea” and Robert Hooke’s “Micrographia” to Mandeville’s “The Fable of the Bees,” Uexküll’s biosemiotics, and Kafka’s “Metamorphosis,” we will ask how concepts and stories of insects reflect and shape the ways we imagine our ecological milieus. We will look more closely at how entomological imaginaries evolved over time and pursue lines of inquiry that will shed new light on human interactions with the environment, politics, and cultural diversity. This course covers a wide range of sources from different European languages (all made available in English translations) and is writing intensive.

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
  • Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
  • Instructor: Frey, Christiane
  • Room: Gilman 186
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 9/15
  • PosTag(s): ENVS-MAJOR, MSCH-HUM

Disease, Illness and Medicine from the Perspective of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies
AS.363.253 (01)

This course invites students to take the perspectives of women, gender and sexuality studies in the study of illness and disease. The course asks: What difference do such perspectives make in the study of disease? Are ways of describing and responding to illness and suffering made available for us to rethink the experience of affliction as such? The course will invite students to consider disease, illness, and suffering as embedded within social worlds and as sites where institutions, medical knowledge, and intimacy are entangled. We will explore topics including: the gender politics of asylum, displacement and refugeehood; the clustering of violence and illness in neighborhoods marked by chronic exposure to police violence; the counter-politics of care in the context of claims to reproductive justice; the politics of the population and the household decision-making in relation to scarcity; the rethinking of the clinical encounter as it is criss-crossed by law in cases of sexual violence.

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
  • Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM
  • Instructor: Han, Clara
  • Room: Ames 234
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 4/18
  • PosTag(s): MSCH-HUM

Disease, Illness and Medicine from the Perspective of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies
AS.363.253 (02)

This course invites students to take the perspectives of women, gender and sexuality studies in the study of illness and disease. The course asks: What difference do such perspectives make in the study of disease? Are ways of describing and responding to illness and suffering made available for us to rethink the experience of affliction as such? The course will invite students to consider disease, illness, and suffering as embedded within social worlds and as sites where institutions, medical knowledge, and intimacy are entangled. We will explore topics including: the gender politics of asylum, displacement and refugeehood; the clustering of violence and illness in neighborhoods marked by chronic exposure to police violence; the counter-politics of care in the context of claims to reproductive justice; the politics of the population and the household decision-making in relation to scarcity; the rethinking of the clinical encounter as it is criss-crossed by law in cases of sexual violence.

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
  • Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM
  • Instructor: Han, Clara
  • Room: Ames 234
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 3/18
  • PosTag(s): MSCH-HUM

Disease, Illness and Medicine from the Perspective of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies
AS.363.253 (03)

This course invites students to take the perspectives of women, gender and sexuality studies in the study of illness and disease. The course asks: What difference do such perspectives make in the study of disease? Are ways of describing and responding to illness and suffering made available for us to rethink the experience of affliction as such? The course will invite students to consider disease, illness, and suffering as embedded within social worlds and as sites where institutions, medical knowledge, and intimacy are entangled. We will explore topics including: the gender politics of asylum, displacement and refugeehood; the clustering of violence and illness in neighborhoods marked by chronic exposure to police violence; the counter-politics of care in the context of claims to reproductive justice; the politics of the population and the household decision-making in relation to scarcity; the rethinking of the clinical encounter as it is criss-crossed by law in cases of sexual violence.

  • Credits: 3.00
  • Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
  • Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM
  • Instructor: Han, Clara
  • Room: Ames 234
  • Status: Open
  • Seats Available: 4/18
  • PosTag(s): MSCH-HUM

Course # (Section) Title Day/Times Instructor Room PosTag(s) Info
AS.001.218 (01)FYS: Means of Persuasion: Language, Culture, and SocietyW 10:30AM - 1:00PMHaeri, NiloofarMergenthaler 426
AS.001.221 (01)FYS: Music, Religion and HealingT 1:30PM - 4:00PMZiad, Homayra3003 N. Charles OMA Lounge
AS.010.469 (01)Quarried, Sculpted, Carved: Lifecycles of Mesoamerican SculptureM 4:30PM - 7:00PMPopovici, Catherine HGilman 177HART-ANC, ARCH-ARCH
AS.070.132 (02)Invitation to AnthropologyT 9:00AM - 10:15AM, Th 9:00AM - 10:15AMKhan, NaveedaGilman 50ARCH-RELATE
AS.070.132 (03)Invitation to AnthropologyT 9:00AM - 10:15AM, Th 9:00AM - 10:15AMKhan, NaveedaGilman 50ARCH-RELATE
AS.070.132 (04)Invitation to AnthropologyT 9:00AM - 10:15AM, Th 9:00AM - 10:15AMKhan, NaveedaGilman 50ARCH-RELATE
AS.070.132 (05)Invitation to AnthropologyT 9:00AM - 10:15AM, Th 9:00AM - 10:15AMKhan, NaveedaGilman 50ARCH-RELATE
AS.070.202 (01)Mapping CommunitiesTTh 9:00AM - 10:15AMProcupez, ValeriaMergenthaler 426ARCH-RELATE
AS.070.267 (01)Culture, Religion and Politics in IranTh 1:30PM - 4:00PMHaeri, NiloofarMergenthaler 439INST-GLOBAL, INST-NWHIST, INST-CP, ISLM-ISLMST
AS.070.273 (01)EthnographiesT 1:30PM - 4:00PMProcupez, ValeriaMergenthaler 426ARCH-RELATE
AS.070.286 (01)Reading Gandhi in the Contemporary MomentMW 12:00PM - 1:15PMJoshi, KunalHodson 301
AS.070.322 (01)The Politics of Land RightsTTh 10:30AM - 11:45AMMenezes, Benita MariaMergenthaler 426ENVS-MAJOR, ENVS-MINOR
AS.070.334 (01)Contemporary AnthropologyT 4:00PM - 6:00PMKhan, NaveedaMergenthaler 426
AS.070.338 (01)Transnational Migration through the Lens of Kinship and GenderTTh 12:00PM - 1:15PMKim, SojungMergenthaler 426
AS.070.387 (01)Human Variation: “Race,” Biology, CultureW 4:00PM - 6:30PMLans, Aja MarieMergenthaler 439
AS.070.404 (01)The Idea of AfricaF 1:30PM - 4:00PMMohamed, SabineMergenthaler 439
AS.070.431 (01)Politics of LanguageTh 1:30PM - 4:00PMMacLochlainn, ScottMergenthaler 426
AS.145.219 (01)Science Studies and Medical Humanities: Theory and MethodsTTh 10:30AM - 11:45AMLabruto, NicoleHodson 311MSCH-HUM
AS.211.323 (01)Bees, Bugs, and other Beasties: Insects in LiteratureTTh 10:30AM - 11:45AMFrey, ChristianeGilman 186ENVS-MAJOR, MSCH-HUM
AS.363.253 (01)Disease, Illness and Medicine from the Perspective of Women, Gender and Sexuality StudiesMW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PMHan, ClaraAmes 234MSCH-HUM
AS.363.253 (02)Disease, Illness and Medicine from the Perspective of Women, Gender and Sexuality StudiesMW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PMHan, ClaraAmes 234MSCH-HUM
AS.363.253 (03)Disease, Illness and Medicine from the Perspective of Women, Gender and Sexuality StudiesMW 12:00PM - 12:50PM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PMHan, ClaraAmes 234MSCH-HUM