ANTHROPOLOGY
Course Level: Undergraduate/Graduate
Topics vary by section, may be repeated for credit with different topic. The application of anthropological method and theory to solving problems in contemporary society. Rotating topics include anthropology of education, health, culture and illness, public archaeology, media activisim, and anthropology of human rights.
Course Level: Undergraduate/Graduate
Topics in Public Anthropology (3)
Media Activism
This course explores media activism (broadly defined) around the world in the context of current social movements, using a political economic framework. It also challenges students to ask how anthropologists can become better newsmakers and public intellectuals in an era of neoliberal corporate media consolidation.
Course Level: Undergraduate/Graduate
Topics in Public Anthropology (3)
Prisons, Punishment, and Social Control
This course examines the strategies and technologies, including surveillance, prisons, and the death penalty, that states officials use to control and manage populations. The course also considers the ways that the increasing pervasiveness of social control in everyday life is an integral part of the punitive state.
Course Level: Undergraduate/Graduate
Topics in Public Anthropology (3)
Prisons, Punishment, and Social Control
This course examines the strategies and technologies, including surveillance, prisons, and the death penalty, that states officials use to control and manage populations. The course also considers the ways that the increasing pervasiveness of social control in everyday life is an integral part of the punitive state.
Course Level: Undergraduate/Graduate
Topics in Public Anthropology (3)
Community Documentary: Stories of Transformation
Using new media tools, students learn the methods and production of a four-minute autobiographical digital story, first by creating their own and then assisting community members. These first-person video narratives can be used in public meetings, on websites, etc. to build and mobilize communities, and empower the storytellers themselves. Prerequisite: COMM-434 or COMM-634, and permission of department. Meets with COMM-528 001.