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Course # (Section)
Title
Day/Times
Instructor
Room
PosTag(s)
Info
AS.010.452 (01)
Death and the State: Archaeologies of Governance in the Americas
W 4:30PM - 7:00PM
Rossi, Franco
Gilman 50
HART-ANC, HART-NW, ARCH-ARCH, MSCH-HUM
Death and the State: Archaeologies of Governance in the Americas AS.010.452 (01)
This seminar explores the relationship between death and governance, with a focus on the archaeology and art history of the Americas. Our readings will examine key social and anthropological theories of death, questioning whether and how they might apply to the archaeological record through in-class archaeological case studies. Themes include interactions with ancestors and spirits, records of political struggles and war, questions about race and ethnicity, incidents of mass killings, debates on power and sovereignty, crime and punishment, and the archaeology of institutional care, science and medicine.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: W 4:30PM - 7:00PM
Instructor: Rossi, Franco
Room: Gilman 50
Status: Open
Seats Available: 18/20
PosTag(s): HART-ANC, HART-NW, ARCH-ARCH, MSCH-HUM
AS.060.157 (01)
Literature and Anti-slavery in the Caribbean and Beyond
TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Loker, Evan
Latrobe 120
INST-GLOBAL
Literature and Anti-slavery in the Caribbean and Beyond AS.060.157 (01)
This course provides an introduction to the texts and rhetoric of the movement that abolished slavery in the Caribbean. Among other topics, we examine: how the formerly enslaved represented their experiences of slavery; how abolitionism emerged across the West Indies, Cuba, and Haiti; and the techniques artists used to imagine radical, post-slavery worlds. Authors include: Olaudah Equiano, Mary Prince, Esteban Montejo, Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville, and Aimé Césaire (all texts will be available in English).
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Instructor: Loker, Evan
Room: Latrobe 120
Status: Open
Seats Available: 10/18
PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL
AS.070.132 (01)
Invitation to Anthropology
M 12:00PM - 1:15PM, W 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Angelini, Alessandro
Bloomberg 274
ARCH-RELATE, GECS-SOCSCI
Invitation to Anthropology AS.070.132 (01)
The question what it means to be human requires continual investigation. Anthropology offers conceptual tools and an ethical groundwork for understanding humanity in its diverse manifestations. This course familiarizes students with anthropological concepts and methods, and engages in critical analysis of a broad range of subjects including language, exchange, class, race, gender, kinship, sexuality, religion, and capitalism.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: M 12:00PM - 1:15PM, W 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Instructor: Angelini, Alessandro
Room: Bloomberg 274
Status: Reserved Open
Seats Available: 5/23
PosTag(s): ARCH-RELATE, GECS-SOCSCI
AS.070.132 (02)
Invitation to Anthropology
M 12:00PM - 1:15PM, W 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Angelini, Alessandro
Bloomberg 274
ARCH-RELATE, GECS-SOCSCI
Invitation to Anthropology AS.070.132 (02)
The question what it means to be human requires continual investigation. Anthropology offers conceptual tools and an ethical groundwork for understanding humanity in its diverse manifestations. This course familiarizes students with anthropological concepts and methods, and engages in critical analysis of a broad range of subjects including language, exchange, class, race, gender, kinship, sexuality, religion, and capitalism.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: M 12:00PM - 1:15PM, W 12:00PM - 1:15PM
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 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Instructor: Procupez, Valeria
Room: Mergenthaler 426
Status: Open
Seats Available: 18/18
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.070.239 (01)
Hinduism and Ethics: The Epics
M 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Das, Veena
Bloomberg 168
Hinduism and Ethics: The Epics AS.070.239 (01)
We will read sections of the two major epics Ramayana and Mahabharata to see how issues of morality and ethics are posed in these texts and the disputations around these issues.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: M 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Das, Veena
Room: Bloomberg 168
Status: Open
Seats Available: 2/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.070.250 (01)
Power and Place in the Segregated City
TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
Adams, Nathaniel Johnson
Hodson 301
Power and Place in the Segregated City AS.070.250 (01)
Identifying residential segregation as a principle driver of racial inequity, the Fair Housing Act of 1968 sought to end housing discrimination and advance the racial integration American cities. Fifty years after this landmark legislation, however, American cities are in most cases more segregated than ever before. New and urgent demands for racial justice, coalescing in transnational movements like Black Lives Matter, have brought a renewed focus onto the deep and abiding social harms wrought by decades of urban segregation. Drawing on anthropological and sociological scholarship on cities both in and outside the United States, this course will examine the social forces that drive segregation, reify boundaries in urban space, and reproduce persistent power asymmetries.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
Instructor: Adams, Nathaniel Johnson
Room: Hodson 301
Status: Open
Seats Available: 7/18
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.070.267 (01)
Culture, Religion and Politics in Iran
W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Haeri, Niloofar
Smokler Center 213
INST-GLOBAL, INST-NWHIST, INST-CP, ISLM-ISLMST
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.
What does it mean to translate the field onto the page? This course explores the craft of ethnography and its relationship to anthropological knowledge. Reading a series of classic and contemporary works, and engaging in our own writing experiments, we attend to the knotty problem of rendering lived experience, attending to narrative, voice, structure, and the relationship between description and analysis.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Pandian, Anand
Room: Mergenthaler 426
Status: Open
Seats Available: 6/20
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.070.295 (01)
Conflict and Security in a Global World
T 12:00PM - 1:15PM, Th 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Degani, Michael
Gilman 50
INST-IR
Conflict and Security in a Global World AS.070.295 (01)
Students will be introduced to problems of global governance in the context of transnational conflicts, changing nature of war, new epidemics and pandemics, and the threats of planetary extinction. What are the ways security is imagined and what kinds of political passions are mobilized for security of people versus security of states.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: T 12:00PM - 1:15PM, Th 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Instructor: Degani, Michael
Room: Gilman 50
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/20
PosTag(s): INST-IR
AS.070.295 (02)
Conflict and Security in a Global World
T 12:00PM - 1:15PM, Th 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Degani, Michael
Gilman 50
INST-IR
Conflict and Security in a Global World AS.070.295 (02)
Students will be introduced to problems of global governance in the context of transnational conflicts, changing nature of war, new epidemics and pandemics, and the threats of planetary extinction. What are the ways security is imagined and what kinds of political passions are mobilized for security of people versus security of states.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: T 12:00PM - 1:15PM, Th 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Instructor: Degani, Michael
Room: Gilman 50
Status: Open
Seats Available: 4/20
PosTag(s): INST-IR
AS.070.332 (01)
Reverberations Of The Korean War
W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Han, Clara
Gilman 134
INST-CP
Reverberations Of The Korean War AS.070.332 (01)
This course will takes the reverberations of the Korean War to examine the ways in which catastrophic violence is absorbed into and corrodes social life. Particular attention is paid to the transnational nature of conflict, how boundaries around peace and war are established, and how recent scholarly and artistic work on the Korean War has critically engaged dominant frameworks of memory and trauma. Readings will draw from fiction, ethnography, historiography and will also include film. This course also draws from the public syllabus on Ending the Korean War.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Han, Clara
Room: Gilman 134
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/15
PosTag(s): INST-CP
AS.070.334 (01)
Contemporary Anthropology
T 4:00PM - 6:00PM
Pandian, Anand
Mergenthaler 439
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.
Credits: 1.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: T 4:00PM - 6:00PM
Instructor: Pandian, Anand
Room: Mergenthaler 439
Status: Open
Seats Available: 8/10
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.070.342 (01)
Common Ground: Shared Resources, Social Economies
T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Procupez, Valeria
INST-ECON
Common Ground: Shared Resources, Social Economies AS.070.342 (01)
This course explores the idea and practice of the commons through various sites and objects (money, work, natural resources, urban land, knowledge and culture, etc.). We will examine the promise and limitations of local, grassroots social and economic forms of organization that propose alternatives to the market economy. Focusing on workers, consumers and housing cooperatives; community currencies; urban gardens; self-help associations; fair trade organizations and knowledge networks; we will enquire how these social economies propose autonomous forms of living together, and sharing resources, property and labor.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Procupez, Valeria
Room:
Status: Waitlist Only
Seats Available: 0/15
PosTag(s): INST-ECON
AS.070.433 (01)
Sustainable Design
W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Pandian, Anand
Mergenthaler 426
ENVS-MAJOR, ENVS-MINOR
Sustainable Design AS.070.433 (01)
Sustainable design involves the development of socially engaging and ecologically sensitive interventions and alternatives, a task both social and technical in nature. Through interdisciplinary readings and collaborative workshops in social science, environmental engineering, and planning and design, this seminar focuses on both theoretical and practical dimensions of this challenge. The first of a two-course sequence, to be followed by a studio practicum in the spring semester.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Pandian, Anand
Room: Mergenthaler 426
Status: Approval Required
Seats Available: 10/10
PosTag(s): ENVS-MAJOR, ENVS-MINOR
AS.070.435 (01)
New War/ Civil Conflicts/ Policing
F 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Das, Veena
Greenhouse 113
New War/ Civil Conflicts/ Policing AS.070.435 (01)
This is an advanced course in which we will interrogate the boundaries between war, civil conflict and techniques of policing. Students should be prepared to work through texts of an interdisciplinary character.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: F 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Das, Veena
Room: Greenhouse 113
Status: Open
Seats Available: 3/10
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.070.472 (01)
Rumors, Conspiracy Theories And Disinformation
F 1:30PM - 4:30PM
Khan, Naveeda, Tobias, Rochelle, Wegenstein, Bernadette
Bloomberg 176
MLL-GERM, MSCH-HUM
Rumors, Conspiracy Theories And Disinformation AS.070.472 (01)
Our present is said to be rife with more rumors, conspiracy theories and disinformation than ever before. Is this moment so different from previous, historical moments of crisis? Haven't these modes of expression always been present, albeit at the margins of the political order? What does it say about knowledge to have multiple “regimes of truth” (Foucault)? How does a new media landscape based in algorithmic modularity, and particularly social media, change the set up from an old analogue media economy? This course, co-taught by an, a literary theorist, and a media theorist, aims to provide a diversity of theoretical and methodological perspectives to help us examine the current state of reality.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
Days/Times: F 1:30PM - 4:30PM
Instructor: Khan, Naveeda, Tobias, Rochelle, Wegenstein, Bernadette
Room: Bloomberg 176
Status: Open
Seats Available: 1/10
PosTag(s): MLL-GERM, MSCH-HUM
AS.145.219 (01)
Science Studies and Medical Humanities: Theory and Methods
TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Labruto, Nicole
Bloomberg 172
MSCH-HUM
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 1:30PM - 2:45PM
Instructor: Labruto, Nicole
Room: Bloomberg 172
Status: Reserved Open
Seats Available: 3/18
PosTag(s): MSCH-HUM
AS.194.202 (01)
Never Forget: Muslims, Islamophobia, and Dissent after 9/11
T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Ziad, Homayra
INST-GLOBAL
Never Forget: Muslims, Islamophobia, and Dissent after 9/11 AS.194.202 (01)
In partnership with the social justice organization Justice for Muslims Collective, this community-engaged course and oral history project will explore how diverse Muslim communities navigated and contested belonging and political and cultural agency amidst state-sponsored violence and national debates on race, gender, citizenship and national security after 9/11 and during the ongoing War on Terror. Through history, ethnography, first-person narratives, film, fiction, and online resources, students will learn about the impact of 9/11 on American Muslim communities. This includes cultural and political resistance to imperialism, racism, and Islamophobia as well as to intersectional inequities within Muslim communities that were intensified in the context of Islamophobia. Students will learn about community activism and organizing from JMC, and complete a participatory action research project with the organization. This project is an oral history archive that will address gaps in the documentation of movement histories when it comes to early organizing against War on Terror policies by Muslim communities and communities racialized or perceived as Muslim. Students will be trained to record stories of resistance among leaders who organized and responded at the local and national-level in the Greater Washington region, to support the building of an archive that will shape a wide variety of future organizing and advocacy efforts.
